ST2110 is a family of standards for audio/video/data over IP format, that can clock to PTP and carry as many embedded essences as your network can handle. Drastic supports ST-2110 as an input for viewing and ingest, and as an output for distribution and delivery. This pages provides an overview of our ST-2110 related products, and offers information on ST-2110 in general.
If you are working in ST-2110, or considering ST-2110 adoption for your facility, or for a client, you will want to stay ahead of all the latest developments in this emerging technology. Following are some valuable manufacturers' resources for products and services that support 2110, as well as related industry associations, publications, and shows.
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| Net-X-Code Server | FlowCaster | 2110Scope | videoQC |
| Receive, ingest, and send | Receive and send | Receive for signal analysis | Receive for viewing |
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Drastic Technologies supports ST-2110 in its Net-X-Code Server, FlowCaster, 2110Scope, and videoQC products. For implementation, please see the Supported Hardware page for the ST-2110 hardware we support.
- Net-X-Code Server provides ingest and output of ST-2110, as well as transcoding to and from ST-2110.
- FlowCaster remote collaboration software uses ST-2110 as an input source, and as an output type for review and delivery.
- 2110Scope signal analysis software provides a ScopeDirect plugin that lets the user view their 2110 input through its waveform/vectorscope tools.
- videoQC Pro software allows the user to view ST-2110 streams as a media player.
SMPTE Official Website
SMPTE maintains the standards. You can buy the technical papers.
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SMPTE - (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) is the organization that maintains technical standards related to SMPTE 2110. Their official website is the best place for authoritative documentation on the standard, including white papers, webinars, and resources on the latest developments in the technology. SMPTE is a New York State Registered Charity #42-07-71 SMPTE has facebook, linkedin, and twitter accounts SMPTE has a blog: https://www.smpte.org/blog They maintain the Open Services for Media association. ST-2110 is comprised of a number of related standards: SMPTE ST 2110-10 — System Timing and Definitions |
Associations and Societies
To enable the development of interoperable devices, software, and technologies, key players in the industry have formed various associations and societies. These may be specific to one technology, or oversee a wide portfolio of technologies. Often these are formed to promote and assist the development of new or emerging standards. They offer technical resources, and encourage membership enquiries.
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Audio Engineering Society - The Audio Engineering Society is the only professional society devoted exclusively to audio technology. Founded in the USA in 1948, the AES is now an international organization that unites audio engineers, creative artists, scientists and students by promoting the growth, knowledge, and appreciation of the science and art of audio, connecting people and ideas worldwide. https://aes2.org/ |
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AIMS - AIMS is an industry consortium led by broadcast and ProAV engineers, technologists, visionaries, vendors and business executives dedicated to an open-standards approach that moves broadcast and media companies quickly and profitably from legacy systems to a virtualized, IP-based environment. https://aimsalliance.org/overview/ They have videos, various resources. |
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AMWA - The Advanced Media Workflow Association, Inc. focuses on the industry move to IP based architectures. To enable software based systems to recognize and exploit devices, the AMWA has developed the Networked Media Open Specifications (NMOS). https://www.amwa.tv/ |
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ATSC: The Broadcast Standards Association is an international, non-profit organization developing voluntary standards for multimedia broadcasting. The ATSC member organizations represent the broadcast, broadcast equipment, motion picture, consumer electronics, computer, cable, satellite, and semiconductor industries. https://www.atsc.org/ |
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DPP - The Digital Production Partnership is an international association for media and technology. The DPP brings the industry together to address the technology and operational needs of media businesses. They believe openness, collaboration, and shared insight are key to success in a complex media environment. https://www.thedpp.com/ |
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IABM - an international trade association for broadcast and media technology. IABM facilitates the all-important networking and interaction that shape and define the unique ecosystem of the Broadcast and Media technology industry. They provide an infrastructure of services and facilities to encourage discussion and collaboration across the whole BaM supply chain. https://theiabm.org/ |
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BTS IEEE – The IEEE Broadcast Technology Society provides standards, technical documents, and articles on technology for video. https://www.ieee.org/ |
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New Media Manitoba - New Media Manitoba is the Sector Council for Information Communications and Digital Technologies and non-profit association serving Manitoba’s Interactive Digital Media (IDM) industry. https://newmediamanitoba.com/ |
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SBE - The Society of Broadcast Engineers From the studio operator to the maintenance engineer and the chief engineer to the vice president of engineering, SBE members come from commercial and non-commercial radio and television stations and cable facilities. A growing segment of members are engaging the industry on their own as consultants and contractors. Field and sales engineers and engineers from recording studios, schools, production houses, CCTV, corporate audio-visual departments and other facilities are also members of the SBE. |
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SCTE - SCTE is a professional association for the advancement of technology, standards and workforce education related to cable telecommunications engineering. Founded in 1969 as The Society of Cable Television Engineers, SCTE has a current membership of more than 19,000 individuals. https://www.scte.org/ |
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SRT Alliance - was founded by Haivision to overcome the challenges of low-latency video streaming Fundamental to this mission is the support of a freely available open-source video transport protocol and technology stack called SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) that will accelerate innovation through collaborative development. It is called the SRT Open Source Project. https://www.srtalliance.org/ |
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The Ultra HD Forum - is an open forum composed of a broad range of participants from the movie and television ecosystem, including content creators, content distributors, consumer electronics manufacturers, professional equipment manufacturers and technology companies. By virtue of its diverse membership, the Ultra HD Forum will advocate an industry consensus around common technical standards, recognizing that some types of content or delivery may impose certain technical constraints. https://ultrahdforum.org/ |
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Via Licensing Alliance - Via Licensing and MPEG LA have united to form the industry's largest patent pool administrator with dozens of IP licensing programs. The newly combined Via Licensing Alliance offers economies of scale that benefit the entire global ecosystem by streamlining IP distribution for innovators with broad portfolios, and implementors with diverse product offerings. - https://www.via-la.com/ |
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Video Services Forum - The VSF is an international association comprised of service providers, users and manufacturers dedicated to interoperability, quality metrics and education for media networking technologies. They specifically maintain IPMX technical recommendations. |
Manufacturer Websites and Documentation
Feel like a little casual reading? Need a product manual? Trying to spec some hardware?
Product manufacturers provide valuable documentation, webinars, and technical resources to help users implement SMPTE 2110 using their products. By exploring these resources, you can improve your understanding of who is selling what, and how their products might assist your adoption and integration of ST-2110.
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AJA Video Systems - www.aja.com supplies a range of hardware products fully supported by Drastic. Drastic software can use their AJA Kona IP for ST-2110 I/O. |
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Blackmagic Design – provides a range of hardware supported by Drastic products. Check out their 2110 IP converter: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/ca/products/blackmagic2110ipconverter |
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Bluefish444 - https://www.bluefish444.com/ - provides a range of high quality hardware supported by Drastic. An an OEM, Bluefish444 also offers the Drastic codec pack to add format support to their solutions. |
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Cisco - www.cisco.com everything networking, especially switches and routers. |
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Cobalt Digital – They offer products for compressed and uncompressed ST-2110 conversion and processing - https://www.cobaltdigital.com/ |
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Deltacast - https://www.deltacast.tv/ they offer I/O cards, software, various other ST-2110 related stuff. Products for developers. |
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Evertz – they offer hardware ST-2110 encoder/decoders and such. https://evertz.com/ |
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For-A - https://www.for-a.com/ they offer distribution as a service, a multiviewer, multichannel gateway, hardware switcher, graphics overlay software, 4 channel playout system for Studio/OB Van environments. |
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Grass Valley - www.grassvalley.com they offer everything from camera ingest, through editing, to playout, a major industry player. |
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Harmonic - they offer servers, encoders, broadband. Here is their blog: https://www.harmonicinc.com/insights/blog |
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Matrox Graphics - https://video.matrox.com/ Manufacturer - they offer ST-2110 boards we support, plus all sorts of other goodies. A Canadian company, long standing relationship with Drastic. |
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Nevion – they offer ST-2110 Broadcasting and networking products https://nevion.com/ |
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NVIDIA - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ we support their Bluefield2/3 and Connect-X 6/7 plus Rivermax software license as our standard 2110 implementation. Drastic Technologies is an authorized Rivermax reseller. |
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ProAV - www.proav.com – a major integrator and workflow solutions specialist - they have a blog: https://www.proav.com/news-and-resources |
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Ross Video - https://www.rossvideo.com/ they make switchers, converters, other high quality hardware stuff. |
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Sony – they make everything from the camera to the servers to the delivery of content. https://pro.sony/en_AU/home |
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VITEC - www.vitec.com they offer digital signage solutions |
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Vizrt - has joined forces with Newtek, and now offer NDI technology in their solutions. They have a blog: https://www.vizrt.com/community/blog/ - production, conversion, distribution products. |
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Wheatstone - https://wheatstone.com/ they make switchers and related video infrastructure products. |
Trade Publications and Blogs
Magazines dedicated to the video and film industry often publish articles with a focus on production workflows and technologies. Astute readers can glean quite a bit of detail about what is being used to enable these workflows, since they are often a sales pitch.
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American Cinematographer – a society https://theasc.com/ with a magazine, classes, other stuff related to film production. |
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Animation Magazine – everything animation. Publishes articles on the technology used in current productions, and the people involved in producing animation. https://www.animationmagazine.net/ |
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Broadcast Beat – a magazine with a focus on animation, broadcast, and post production. https://www.broadcastbeat.com/ |
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Broadcast Bridge - We create hundreds of original articles each year and publish them across web, email and social. Access is 100% free to our readers. Our editorial team of industry expert writers dig deep into the most challenging and fascinating subjects facing our industry. We cover the whole media supply chain from acquisition, through production, all the way to delivery. Our content serves creatives, engineers and management, and examines the physical, asset and data workflows of the whole supply chain. We explore the business trends & data that drive demand. |
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Deadline - https://deadline.com/ everything about productions – who is hiring, what is shooting, where are the festivals and so on. |
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EBU Tech Site - They operate Eurovision and Euroradio. Their blog: https://tech.ebu.ch/publications/ Their website: https://www.ebu.ch/home They host the EBU Media Summit |
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Motion Imaging Journal - from SMPTE. You can view the last several years’ worth of issues online if you like. https://journal.smpte.org/periodicals/ The SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal is the key publication of the Society, providing peer-reviewed articles on topics in 3D, imaging processing etc. |
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Post Magazine – articles on all the latest productions. They have a blog. You can advertise. https://www.postmagazine.com/ |
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Production Weekly - a premium subscription data service that delivers news and updates on film and television productions, allowing the creative community to market, network, plan sales campaigns. https://www.productionweekly.com/ |
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Sound On Sound - Sound On Sound is known for its thorough and unbiased reviews of music technology products, such as audio interfaces, microphones, monitors and music software. It also features articles on recording techniques, music production and sound engineering, as well as insightful interviews with musicians, producers, and mix engineers. https://www.soundonsound.com/ |
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Streaming Media magazine - https://www.streamingmedia.com/Default.aspx provides IP Video related articles. |
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TV Technology - www.tvtechnology.com you can read the current magazine there. They are always happy to discuss your advertising needs. |
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Videomaker magazine – publishes articles, offers educational and technical resources, buyer’s guides, news and reviews. https://www.videomaker.com/ |
Industry Conferences and Trade Shows
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IBC Convention Amsterdam - Takes place September 12-15. Along with its comprehensive exhibition and conference coverage, IBC365 is the go-to platform for all developments within the M&E universe, delivering exclusive news, reports and thought leadership daily, with insight into the most pressing issues faced by broadcasters, content platforms, Big Tech and academia. https://www.ibc.org/home |
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Infocomm - June 7-13 at the Orange County Convention Center - test the latest pro AV technologies, stay up to date on industry trends, and grow your professional network - https://www.infocommshow.org/ |
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Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) is the largest AV systems integration show in the world. The organisation behind ISE – Integrated Systems Events LLC – is a joint venture between AVIXA and CEDIA, the two leading industry associations for the global audiovisual industry. It is very important to all of the organisational parties that ISE serves the industry in the best way it possibly can and that it remains strong, so that it can continue to support the industry – the companies and the people that populate it. If you have business to do in any of the many market segments that make up this dynamic industry, you’ll want to be part of ISE – either as an exhibitor or an attendee. https://www.isevents.org/ |
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NAB Show (National Association of Broadcasters) - this year’s show is April 5-9, 2025 in Las Vegas. https://www.nabshow.com/ IP Showcase at NAB www.ipshowcase.org |
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World Animation Summit - all things animation. https://animationmagazine.net/summit/ |
Other Technical Resources
`There have got to be dozens of subreddits dedicated to various aspects of production and broadcasting, and a quick search will likely turn up some valuable resources. Or post a question and see if someone can help. You can get started with:
https://www.reddit.com/r/VIDEOENGINEERING/
https://www.reddit.com/r/broadcastengineering/
YouTube
First of all, you're going to want to hurry over to the Drastic YouTube page and check out our videos there. https://www.youtube.com/DrasticTechnologies
Here is one such video for your viewing pleasure: SMPTE ST-2110 Professional Media Over Managed IP Networks.
The search function in YouTube can also be used to produce an exhaustive list of available resources.
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