High Speed WAN Data Transmission for Globalized Content Production Environments
Abstract
Audiovisual content creation often involves actors at many distributed locations. Tighter integration of these actors, among others by means of an efficient electronic content exchange, is urgently needed to improve the economics and to speed up especially high end, digital film production workflows. In this paper, we present the vision for a networked and managed audiovisual content production environment that may be distributed around the world. Necessary steps and major challenges towards the realization of this vision are presented here and solution approaches are sketched. A focus of this paper is on the specific challenge of fast wide-area data transport at multi-gigabit data rates. Currently a discrepancy exists between the available network bandwidth and the ability to "fill this pipe" in order to transport uncompressed imagery at 4k resolution. A new, but already deployed, solution for this issue is elaborated. The paper concludes with an outlook on the next steps towards our vision to make globalized content production more efficient.
About the Authors
E. Siemens
Thomson Corporate Research
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
C. Herpel
Thomson Corporate Research
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
R. Köhler
Thomson Corporate Research
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
A. Aust
Thomson Corporate Research
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
References
1. ITU-T. Transmission of component-coded digital television signals for contribution-quality applications at the third hierarchical level of ITU-T Recommendation G.702, ITU-T recommendation J.81, 1993
2. Dina Katabi, Mark Handley, Charlie Rohrs. Congestion control for high bandwidth-delay product networks. In Proc. Of: ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Oct. 2002
3. C. Anglano, M. Canonico. Performance analysis of high-performance file-transfer systems for Grid applications. Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience, Vol 18 pp 807-816, Jul. 2006
4. E. He, J. Leigh, O. Yu and T. DeFanti, Reliable Blast UDP: Predictable High Performance Bulk Data Transfer. IEEE Cluster Computing, 2002: p. 317
5. Y. Gu „UDT: A High Performance Data Transport Protocol" PhD Thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2005
6. Anue Systems. Network emulator Anue XGEM, Product information page. URL:http://www.anuesystems.com/GEM_XGEM_network_simulator.htm. 2008
7. Xinran (Ryan) Wu and Andrew A. Chien. Evaluation of rate-based transport protocols for lambdagrids. In HPDC '04: 13th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing. 2004
8. F. Buschmann et. al. Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture, Vol 1. John Wiley & Sons,2000
9. Globus Toolkit Home Page. URL: http:// www.globus.org. 2008
10. The WS-Resource Framework, Home Page. URL:http://www.globus.org/wsrf/
11. GRIA Home Page. URL: http://www.gria.org. 2008
12. Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. " Serial Digital Interface (SDI)", SMPTE-259M, 1997
13. IEEE. IEEE 802 part 3: Part 3: Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) access, method and physical layer specifications, IEEE 802.3-2005, 2005
14. IEEE P802.3ba 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Ethernet Task Force, Home Page URL: http://www.ieee802.org/3/ba/. 2008
15. M. Wadekar. "Enhanced Ethernet for Data Center: Reliable, Channelized and Robust. 15th IEEE Workshop on Local & Metropolitan Area Networks 2007, p.65
16. Fibre Channel Industry Organisation. Home Page URL:http://www.fibrechannel.org/. 2008
17. Infiniband Trade Association. Home Page URL: http://www.infinibandta.org/. 2008
18. C. Herpel. "Di/oS - Improve Cost and Time Efficiencyof SAN-Based Workflows" Thomson, Corporate Newsletter Nr. 1, 2007 URL:http://www.thomson.net/GlobalEnglish/research/research/Documents/Newsletter/Corporate_Research_summer2007.pdf
19. F. Le Bolzer et. al. Prodim@ges - A new Video Production Environment based on IP wireless and optical links. Accepted to 2008 NEM Summit.
20. MUPBED Project Home Page. URL: http://www.ist-mupbed.org/. 2008
21. IRMOS Project Home Page. URL: http://www.irmosproject.eu. 2008
22. ContenShare2 Product Home Page. URL: http://www.thomsongrassvalley.com/products/security/cs2/. 2008
Review
For citations:
Siemens E., Herpel C., Köhler R., Aust A. High Speed WAN Data Transmission for Globalized Content Production Environments. The Herald of the Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Information Science. 2010;(4):3-12. (In Russ.)
Views:
137
Email this article 