For years now EVS and Cisco have been partnering collectively, pioneering revolutionary applied sciences that energy the infrastructure wanted for IP based mostly LIVE manufacturing, and accelerating the transfer from conventional SDI broadcast to IP broadcast across the globe. Transitioning to IP opens the door to new capabilities and gives the scalability, flexibility, and futureproofing wanted for media workflow operations.
Last yr, at NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) 2022, we launched Cisco’s Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC), previously Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM), as a brand new approach to handle IP based mostly Media Fabrics. Cisco NDFC is a complete SDN answer that permits the provisioning and administration of community infrastructure throughout a number of places at scale.
EVS Cerebrum is a well-established broadcast management system utilized by among the world’s largest broadcasters to handle advanced stay productions and media workflows.
The integration of EVS Cerebrum and Cisco NDFC not solely simplifies administration of IP-based manufacturing workflows and community infrastructure for media, but in addition supplies deep visibility and monitoring capabilities enabling operators to simply establish and troubleshoot points successfully.
Cisco NDFC runs as a service on high of the Nexus Dashboard (ND) cluster that may be both a bodily or digital equipment and supplies simplified and enhanced end-end material automation capabilities in addition to monitoring and visibility for Cisco IP Fabric for Media (IPFM) deployments. Cisco NDFC embraces an entire Kubernetes-based micro-services structure making it straightforward to horizontally scale and construct giant materials that assist enhance efficiency and reliability. It additionally helps an active-active HA mannequin with layer2 and layer3 reachability for 3-node clusters and supplies a uniform and enhanced consumer expertise all through its modernized, color-coded UI and dashboards.
Key highlights of Cisco IPFM answer with NDFC
- Easy Fabric builder – Supports pre–configured coverage templates that comply with trade’s greatest practices, to construct your Cisco IPFM underlay and Non–Blocking Multicast (NBM) community in minutes. This considerably reduces the time to provision a Cisco IPFM community. This additionally ensures the community is at all times compliant with the configuration based mostly on the consumer’s intent.
- Role Based Access Control – Allows the task of various roles to completely different customers, per material, for a granular coverage deployment.
- Multi-Tenancy – Allows you to logically isolate prospects or consolidate a number of NBM energetic and passive (bandwidth conscious NBM) workflows on the identical material with VRF assist.
- Multicast NAT – Cisco NDFC permits step-by-step Multicast NAT configuration. It can assist configuration templates for Ingress and Egress Multicast NAT, Unicast to Multicast and Multicast to Unicast translations. In addition to configuration, Cisco NDFC supplies full visibility of pre- and post- NAT flows, in each tabular and topology views.
- PTP Monitoring with modernized views – Along with PTP visibility in a tabular view, Cisco NDFC supplies a color-coded topology view of the PTP knowledge that features port standing and grand chief clock standing.
What’s New for Cisco IPFM with NDFC 12.1(2)
- Increased Switch Scale Support for Cisco IPFM materials – From Release 12.1(2), you possibly can uncover and handle as much as 120 switches in your Cisco IPFM material, with capabilities to watch PTP and RTP circulate monitoring at this scale.
- Co-existence of IPFM and Classic LAN based mostly materials – Users can now handle their Cisco knowledge middle deployment with Classic LAN templates and Cisco IPFM deployment with IPFM templates utilizing the identical occasion of Cisco NDFC.
- 3-tier structure for Cisco IPFM materials with NBM – In addition to conventional backbone leaf templates that Cisco NDFC was managing for IPFM deployments, we have now added assist for 3-tier Cisco IPFM structure. Users can provision and handle a sub-leaf related to an present leaf within the Cisco IPFM material, permitting materials to scale comfortable with out the necessity to redesign present deployments.
For extra particulars, take a look at the “What’s New in Cisco NDFC Release 12.1.2e video”
EVS Cerebrum and Cisco NDFC Integration Highlights
- EVS efficiently migrated from Cisco DCNM to Cisco NDFC utilizing simplified backup restore migration workflow and Cisco NDFC Rest-API’s.
- EVS is leveraging NBM energetic mode and NBM host and circulate insurance policies to handle dynamic bandwidth allocation for audio, video, and ancillary flows. This integration supplies tighter management of the multicast streams as they steer intent and insurance policies from Cerebrum.
- Offloading the administration of the community to Cisco NDFC permits EVS to increase assist for versatile, scaled, and distributed IP-based architectures with ease.
- EVS is supporting connectivity to each RED and BLUE NDFC for High Availability (2022-7) designs, deployed in 24/7 amenities.
- EVS is at the moment within the strategy of integrating Multicast NAT capabilities with Cisco NDFC.
EVS Cerebrum Capabilities
In addition to its superior automation capabilities to handle a variety of broadcast operations, Cerebrum is “stream agnostic,” which means it may possibly assist ST-2110 environments in addition to transport streams, similar to Dante and different IP flows.
Cerebrum assist for NMOS requirements ensures interoperability between completely different IP-based units and methods and simplifies integration of NMOS-compliant units into present infrastructure together with native non-NMOS units. This streamlines broadcasters’ migration expertise via gradual transfer to IP. Check out their numerous assortment of drivers right here.
As the system is extremely customizable, it may possibly create customized consumer roles and permissions to satisfy the precise wants of every broadcaster, whether or not consumer interfaces for bodily purchasers or internet interfaces for distant purchasers.
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As the printed and media trade continues to evolve, bringing collectively two highly effective instruments for managing IP-based LIVE manufacturing, EVS Cerebrum and Cisco’s NDFC, is a serious step in enabling broadcasters and media corporations to ship high-quality content material effectively and successfully.
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