Cisco and Panasonic Validated Design for IP Broadcast Infrastructure

The media and leisure {industry} is present process unprecedented transformation, pushed by the speedy evolution of high-resolution video codecs and the rising complexity of content material supply. As video resolutions advance from UHD/4K to 8K and now to 16K, the demand for a strong IP infrastructure able to supporting larger speeds and larger bandwidth has by no means been extra crucial. On the identical time, organizations face rising stress to ship lossless streaming of high-resolution content material, each inside manufacturing amenities and throughout distributed, distant deployments.

To realize this stage of efficiency, reliability and ease of deployment, each element of the media community should be seamlessly built-in. This consists of audio and video endpoints, broadcast controllers, and administration units working inside a unified IP-based media cloth. Addressing these challenges, Cisco and Panasonic have partnered to create a Cisco Validated Design (CVD) that totally exams and paperwork the mixed efficiency of their media ecosystem in end-to-end, real-world eventualities.

Why a Cisco Validated Design Issues

Cisco Validated Designs function trusted {industry} blueprints, present process in depth testing to make sure interoperability, reliability, and scalability. For broadcasters, this gives assurance that the answer will carry out persistently from the community infrastructure via to the applying layer, even beneath the pressures of reside manufacturing environments. The Panasonic-Cisco CVD affords a confirmed reference structure that helps prospects speed up deployments, scale back threat, and obtain sooner time to manufacturing.

By adopting a completely validated, built-in stack, organizations can scale their end-to-end IP based mostly media infrastructure with confidence that each one parts will work collectively seamlessly. This strategy delivers low latency, zero packet loss, and persistently prime quality of service, all of that are important for crucial reside broadcasts and future-proof media operations.

The Function of Cisco IPFM within the Cisco Validated Design

On the core of this structure, Cisco’s Nexus 9000 switches ship the scalability wanted to broaden infrastructure from 100G to 400G and now as much as 800G hyperlink speeds. This flexibility is additional enhanced by bandwidth-aware Non-Blocking Multicast (NBM), which, together with Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and the newest improvements in media infrastructure, ensures a really lossless surroundings that’s prepared for future developments.

Cisco IP Cloth for Media (IPFM) is constructed on open requirements, supporting SMPTE ST 2110, AES67, NMOS IS-04/IS-05, IGMP, PIM, and SMPTE ST 2022-7 for redundancy. This permits strong, interoperable, and future-ready media workflows. As well as, Cisco gives distinctive capabilities to help AI/ML workloads inside media and broadcasting infrastructure, alongside media workflows.

To streamline operations even additional, the Cisco Nexus Dashboard gives highly effective automation capabilities for managing advanced IP-based media environments.

Panasonic + Cisco: Joint Worth for Broadcasters

Panasonic’s merchandise combine seamlessly with Cisco’s IP-based infrastructure, forming the inspiration of a validated design that empowers prospects to adapt to evolving necessities, accommodate larger resolutions, and help distributed manufacturing groups.

Panasonic’s Studio Cameras, PTZ Cameras, Digicam Management Models, and IP Gateways* function key endpoints, all seamlessly related via the validated design.

Central to the workflow is the IT/IP platform KAIROS, which introduces an modern strategy to reside video manufacturing with its superior structure for central processing and switching. The KAIROS system, comprising Kairos Core (mainframe), Kairos Management (management panel), and Kairos Creator (GUI software program) affords complete multi-format help together with ST 2110, NDI, and SRT alongside options similar to limitless scenes and layers, CANVAS performance, open structure. Moreover, varied {hardware} and software program choices will be carried out, such because the SDI I/O Board for connecting to legacy units, the Kairos Core Supervisor for configuring backup programs for the mainframe, and the Contact Management Panel Software program for reside operation via intuitive touch-based interplay enabling the development of a system that meets excessive calls for for connectivity, reliability and operability. By connecting on to Cisco’s IP Cloth for Media by way of ST 2110, KAIROS ensures seamless interoperability and strong efficiency.

Complementing this setup, Panasonic’s broadcast controller ecosystem, that includes the Panasonic System Supervisor (PSM) and Panasonic System Surveillance (PSS), gives complete management and monitoring capabilities, additional enhancing the reliability and effectivity of your entire answer.

*Panasonic IP Gateway, PSM, and PSS are presently offered solely within the Japanese market.

Key Outcomes from the Cisco Validated Design 

• Media Visitors with No Packet Loss: The community reliably transports ST 2110 video, audio, and ancillary information flows with out packet loss, even beneath sustained high-traffic circumstances. Playback at receivers confirms the integrity of media, with no observable distortion or degradation, demonstrating the design’s potential to deal with high-bandwidth, time-sensitive streams.
• Minimal Latency for Reside Manufacturing: The structure minimizes latency between media endpoints by optimizing community path choice, guaranteeing that media indicators are delivered in actual time. This low-latency efficiency is crucial for reside manufacturing and real-time monitoring, supporting seamless and responsive broadcast workflows.
• Versatile, Scalable, and Resilient Structure with Centralized Management: Constructed on a spine-and-leaf structure with Cisco Nexus 9000 Collection switches, the design scales effortlessly to fulfill rising manufacturing calls for. Reliability is ensured via full redundancy, together with ST 2022-7 seamless safety switching and twin PTP infrastructure, which gives steady operation and fault tolerance, even throughout {hardware} or hyperlink failures. With built-in NMOS (Networked Media Open Specs), the structure permits centralized and dynamic management of ST 2110 media flows. This permits broadcast controllers to simply uncover, join, and handle streams, supporting scalable and user-friendly operations with minimal guide intervention.

What’s new with Cisco IP Materials for Media?

• Media Trade Layer for AI/ML workloads: As using AI and machine studying in post-production turns into more and more prevalent, prospects are looking for coexistence between AI/ML workflows and media flows. Cisco will help the coexistence of media frames over RDMA (AI/ML workflows) with NBM Energetic 2110 multicast flows (media flows) inside a single cloth in several VRFs. This functionality drastically reduces workflow latency, facilitating real-time, bidirectional media change and enabling instant inference and evaluation inside media workflows.
• Allow help for 8k and 16k video decision: With Cisco IPFM, the utmost bandwidth price per stream has elevated from 25 Gbps, which is appropriate for UHD high quality video, to 96 Gbps per stream to completely help the necessities of 8K and 16K video decision. This enhancement permits media broadcasters to arrange their IP-based media infrastructure for future high-resolution content material supply.
• PIM Flooding Mechanism and Supply Discovery (PFM – SD): Historically, PIM-SM (PIM Sparse Mode) depends on a Rendezvous Level (RP) and shared timber to ascertain multicast visitors paths. PFM–SD simplifies this course of by eradicating the necessity for RPs and shared timber, as an alternative flooding multicast supply info all through the PIM area utilizing a generic PIM flooding mechanism. This permits routers to find energetic sources with out requiring preliminary information packets or a central RP, thereby decreasing operational complexity and offering a lot sooner convergence in addition to optimum visitors forwarding. We are going to supply help for PFM – SD in each single and multi-site eventualities.

By combining Cisco’s confirmed IPFM structure with Panasonic’s trusted media options, this CVD provides broadcasters a transparent path to constructing scalable, dependable, and standards-compliant IP-based infrastructures.

Cisco at IBC 2025: Mini-Theatre Classes at Our Sales space

Catch all the newest improvements with Cisco IPFM at Cisco’s sales space at IBC. Listed here are the matters of dialogue:

• Automating IP Materials for Media on Sept 12 (Friday) at 11:30am, Sept 13 (Saturday) at 2:30pm, Sept 14 (Sunday) at 5:30pm
• AI Networks for Media on Sept 12 (Friday) at 2pm, Sept 13 (Saturday) at 1:30pm, Sept 14 (Sunday) at 3pm
• Way forward for IP Media Networking Sept 12 (Friday) at 12noon, Sept 13 (Saturday) at 12noon, Sept 14 (Sunday) at 12noon
• Orchestrating Media Networks with Cisco IPFM and Sony/Nevion VideoIPath on Sept 13 (Saturday) at 11am
• Constructing Future-Prepared Media Manufacturing Networks with Cisco IPFM and Think about’s Magellan Management System on Sept 13 (Saturday) at 3pm
• Leveraging Multicast NAT with Cisco IPFM and EVS Cerebrum on Sept 14 (Sunday) at 11am

Meet with us at Worldwide Broadcasting Convention (IBC) 2025

Register and be part of Cisco at IBC 2025 in Amsterdam, from September 12 to fifteen. Cisco will showcase industry-leading options via sales space reveals, speaker periods , and conferences with {industry} consultants.

Our sales space is at Corridor 3 Stand B51, we sit up for seeing you there!

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