Asia-Pacific Broadcasting (APB) January/February 2018 Volume 35, Issue 1 | Page 20

20 Ross Video grows SDP ecosystem Ross Video has launched the latest addition to its software-defined production (SDP) ecosystem at CABSAT 2018. According to Ross Video, SDP is a new and growing family of products based on the view that broadcasters should be free to choose the transport that is most appropriate for their project. SDP is designed to deliver adaptability, scalability and agility to broadcasters by moving away from single- function devices, which mostly sit idle, towards a pool of flexible resources that are able to meet production needs on-demand. BeckTV builds IP-centric production facility Systems integrator BeckTV has completed work on the University of Notre Dame’s state-of-the- art production facility. Known as the Rex and Alice A.Martin Media Centre, the facility is said to be one of a handful of live production media centres in the world to boast an all-IP routing infrastructure. The new facility includes one large studio, one teaching studio, two nine-position production control rooms, two audio control rooms, a camera shading room, a slow-motion replay room and eight fibre-connected editing suites. Next Month @ X-Platform Live Video Streaming Solutions PANELLISTS January-February 2018 TV Everywhere for today’s disparate viewers As the shift away from linear TV viewing continues unabated, TV operators need to ensure that their content reaches their audiences anywhere and everywhere. Shawn Liew reports. I f someone were to invent a currency today for the media entertainment industry, it might as well be embossed with the logos of Google, YouTube, Facebook and Amazon. Barron, an US weekly financial maga- zine, recently predicted that by 2020, Google and YouTube parent Alphabet, Facebook