At the day-long Cisco and Grass Valleys EMEA Roadshow titled ‘Demystifying IP’ held at the Amwaj Rotana in Dubai, UAE, on 28 March, the regional industry was taken through IP standards and use cases including demonstrations of IP-based solutions. The broadcast industry also had the opportunity to view the new combined Grass Valley/SAM portfolio of solutions. […]
At the day-long Cisco and Grass Valleys EMEA Roadshow titled ‘Demystifying IP’ held at the Amwaj Rotana in Dubai, UAE, on 28 March, the regional industry was taken through IP standards and use cases including demonstrations of IP-based solutions. The broadcast industry also had the opportunity to view the new combined Grass Valley/SAM portfolio of solutions.
Speaking to BroadcastPro ME on the sidelines of the roadshow, Jan-Pieter van Welsem, VP Sales EMEA, said: “Over the past two years there have been a number of high profile IP deployments in the region with broadcasters installing all IP broadcast networks in their new facilities in a number of markets as well as all IP Ob trucks being used for live production.
“The Demystifying IP Roadshow builds on the educational roadshows that we organised last year, giving CTOs, broadcast engineers and consultants, insights and key lessons learnt from IP installations over the past 12 to 18 months.”
He also elaborated on the combined range and depth of the product portfolio of Grass Valley after the SAM acquisition in February 2018. He highlighted in particular, the range of switchers and IP-based solutions that the company can now offer broadcasters of varying scales of operation.
Opening his presentation of use cases, Robert Erickson, Director of Advanced Technology at Grass Valley said: “Real world, glass to glass IP-based solutions are here and ready to be deployed.”
The use cases highlighted the need to adopt different business models, upskill internal teams and manage more complex security systems, among other issues.
