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Everywhere the broadcast landscape is shifting inexorably from linear to digital and with it the nature of the distribution infrastructure from over the air to internet. But the UK is a beacon in continuing to want to enshrine universal access to public broadcast channels from the BBC, ITV and others. The report points out that even though Digital Terrestrial and satellite delivered households are declining, the resilience of live TV as a shared cultural experience for key moments such as cultural and sporting events has not gone away. While every household in the UK has the right to ‘decent affordable’ internet connection of at least 10 Mbit/s this would be put under strain if there were a sudden switchover to IP. Without greater advances in compression, superfast broadband speed (30 Mbit/s) is more likely to provide a reliable viewing experience but that will cost capital investment. Ofcom point out that if investment or technology advance is not forthcoming then broadband speeds would not be sufficient for a reliable IPTV viewing experience making any imminent abandonment of DTT unlikely. So how the country transitions to a future of increased reliance on broadband networks for video streaming while ensuring availability for all will be a complex decision – and one where technical considerations will likely not be the only factors at play. #DTT #NextGenTV #IPStreaming #Freeview #Freesat https://lnkd.in/e3Gr4swP

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It's not just us at The Channel Store who think that the TV 📺 business as we know it is under a disruption moment in many aspects. About #DTT, now also Ofcom, UK independent communications regulator also confirms the obvious. The solution is to embrace 🙌 the FAST model = IP streaming + digital advertising. IMHO this is what #FAST truly stands out for... FAST is much more than "nostalgic 🤠🕵‍♂️🧙‍♂️ TV channels" as it was born, it's in fact, the way the linear and AVOD business will be offered in less than 5 years to most of the population in US and Europe (other regions to follow that 👣 too).

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Customer feedback and reception have been overwhelmingly positive since we launched our Gen-IC Cloud Intercom service at the start of the year. Transitioning production workflows from on-premises to cloud-based tools is not always smooth, and getting crews and personnel fluent with new systems can come with many teething challenges. However, one of the main pieces of customer feedback we get is how intuitive Gen-IC is to use especially with the self-serve SkyPort portal. Moreover, the users of the system continue to work with the same virtual clients or physical panels (hybrid systems) that they have come to love for many years. This results in much lower deployment costs as no user training is required. Gen-IC is our first product venture into managed cloud services, and it’s hugely rewarding to hear that it is enabling our customers to save time and money, making productions as efficient as possible. Read more in this InBroadcast write-up Phillip Izzard: https://lnkd.in/eKTDUWGK

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'Recording' in the end is purely an interim solution whilst we were in the scheduled TV world. Now that we have transitioned to the release TV world (where programmes are linearly delivered but also released at, or before even, a time/day and then made available for a variable time window for consumption when you wish to) then it is clear that 'Recording' disappears as not required - as needed for the modern world as much as analog phone lines and telephone boxes... Quite just for something that in many countries only exists because of legal actions in the late 1970s about recording on video tapes... The only challenge to this is bad behaviour by rights holders who try to bleed too much money out of distributors for those catchup / on demand rights, or those who mandate the inability to avoid ads that are not of interest...

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The interesting part about the SDI-versus-IP debate is that those who haven’t migrated to IP yet are wary of fixing something that isn’t broke as far as they are concerned. This will eventually lead to a dead end, as those who have made the transition and never want to go back will confirm. True, from a broadcaster’s point of view, IP requires a different mindset and other skills for everything happening under the hood. But the whole idea of going IP is that there should be no noticeable difference for operators, even though they can achieve a lot more than would be possible in the baseband domain. read more below by Chris Scheck Lawo

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The Rise of Private 5G: A Challenger to Wi-Fi and Public 5G for Mobile Transmitters & Encoders [Download NAB BEIT Paper & Webinar]

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We acknowledge BT's recent announcement to extend the switch-off deadlines from 2025 to 2027. While this move was not entirely unexpected, it remains frustrating for us and many other providers who have diligently worked to transition customers to replacement products and services in anticipation of the original 2025 deadline. As a business, we have consistently advocated for increased awareness of this transition, as the lack of communication with end users has led to significant confusion. Customers must receive clear messaging moving forward to fully understand the implications of the switch-off and the necessary steps to take. Despite the revised deadline, we remain steadfast in our commitment to the original timeline. Openreach will continue to raise prices, and we are urging businesses to move away from outdated services. Proactive communication is essential for a smooth and efficient transition. If you're in the dark about what the switch-off means for your business, get in touch. We're here to keep you informed. #bigswitchoff

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Check out the latest advancements on 6G radio design and innovation on topics including AI-driven air interface design, advanced MIMO transmissions, joint communication and sensing, integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks, and a lot more from Hexa-X-II! https://lnkd.in/ddaSZXuM #SNSJU #6G #AI

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Culprit no. 1: the new ECC, regulatory overreach that slowed Britain’s 5G roll-out to a crawl while the developed (and even some of the developing) world sprinted ahead. The U.S.: limited regulation, 95% 5G coverage across a country the size of a continent. The EU: slightly more regulation: 81% 5G coverage. The UK: dramatic regulatory overreach giving operators and infrastructure companies significant power to reduce rents without requiring that the resulting savings be used for network roll-outs: complete market collapse, 51% 5G coverage. Even Bulgaria, Costa Rica and the Philippines are doing better.

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The newest State of UK #Broadband report from thinkbroadband is out, covering UK #FTTP market, with a lot of analysis of #altnets. Well worth downloading and reading, especially for its analysis of #overbuild, where multiple players build parallel infrastructures along streets. Link: https://lnkd.in/eMvVvf9b The UK market is now at 69% homes passed, predicted to be 95% in May 2026. There isn't as much detail on homes (or businesses) connected, or exactly what "passed" really means. For those unfamiliar with the UK market, there has been a gold-rush in recent years, especially when interest rates were low. Over 150 networks started building out fibre, ranging from local cooperative ISPs to major PE-backed players such as CityFibre. New entrants mostly focused on specific towns / districts, rural areas or building types. Some went straight to XGS-PON. Consolidation is now ongoing. BT Group was slow to adopt full fibre, with both its retail ISP and wholesale Openreach more focused on FTTC / VDSL until about 3 years ago, when it started pushing FTTP *hard*. It has been overbuilding altnets' fibre in many places. #Overbuild is a contentious issue. Received wisdom is that a roughly 30% "take-rate" is needed for positive ROI on fibre build, although that varies by area and other factors. At the moment, the report estimates 22% of UK premises have two FTTP networks, and 3% have three or more. In theory, if there's good #openaccess wholesale with slick processes, high-quality build, flexibility (eg for symmetric 1G/2G if ISPs want) then overbuild can be inefficient. In reality, some overbuild is inevitable and even desirable, especially at a fine-grained level, such as fibre along both sides of a busy road. It helps keep the wholesale market "honest", especially as Openreach's footprint grows. It ensures coverage occurs faster and more completely, with access to not just homes but also MDUs, business premises, street assets like mobile towers and so on. Some homes on sideroads, like mine, don't have FTTP availability despite a build on the main street about 50 metres away. Wholesale regulation is broadly OK, but slow to keep pace - the next Ofcom Telecom Access Review is ongoing for 2026-2031, but presumably may be influenced by the recent change of government. There's a risk that altnets get ignored by policymakers, as seen in the EU. The fact that BT only overbuilds, rather than uses perfectly good existing alternative FTTP assets doesn't suggest confidence in the concept of wholesale. It's prepared to be a seller but not a buyer - even as a retail ISP. It doesn't suggest that competition or structural decomposition is currently as effective as it could be. That shoudl change. (I see a similar lack of symmetry in network APIs - telcos should be on both sides of the market). It will also be interesting to see if the new (delayed) one-touch switching process changes the competitive landscape. Plenty to keep an eye on!

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https://lnkd.in/eKMeePJa D2X Multicast Broadcast Disaggregation System Architecture supports an SFN underlay RU Category (A) and SFN Wide Area RU Category (B), From perspective RU on a symbol-by-symbol basis under control D2X scheduler via eCPRI protocol messages D2X virtual frame (1000ms) is constructed. First VFS Bootstrap + L1 Signaling (1 + 2) time domain I/Q is sent to I/Q DAC, upconverted RF, PA. Then emitted antenna air interface aligned GPS 1PPS to begin D2X virtual frame. The D2X virtual frame (1000ms) shows highlighted (red) the virtual sub-frames with a mixture of D2X services for SFN underlay and the SFN wide area topologies. The remaining virtual sub-frames have only SFN wide area D2X services. The D2X scheduler eCPRI protocol messages for RU Type (A) sub-frames. The virtual sub-frame SS (3 + 4) is sent from cloud to RU D2X sites (1, 2, 3). Then all PRB for a symbol with D2X services (5) for wide area SFN are sent. Then RU generates three duplicate symbols for each sector (A, B, C) of SFN. Then for all VBP the PRB for D2X services (5) geo-targeted for SFN underlay is sent with eCPRI signaling to direct to a specific Site RU and sector. These are inserted by RU shown in the correct sector as signaled to complete a symbol. This process repeats for each symbol of a virtual frame with SFN underlay D2X services. If virtual sub-frame has only SFN wide area D2X services, then the SFN sectors are generated and the next step for insertion SFN underlay is skipped by D2X scheduler for each symbol of the virtual sub-frame. This is only an example the D2X scheduler, and algorithms are not specified in D2X standard. Only L1 signaling syntax and semantics for receivers (UE) and eCPRI messages to enable innovation using D2X harmonized 5G NR and aligned using O-RAN principles. #D2X #ORAN

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NEW LIGHT OPERATING SYSTEM  Uses the LiFi Reaching the POS, ATM and so on - at the SPEED of LIGHT. *LiFi Basics It uses common household LED light bulbs to enable data transfer, boasting speeds of up to 224 Gbps. Considering that the fastest WiFi in the 60 GHz frequency band, WiGig, can achieve a maximum data rate of 7 Gbps, LiFi speed is 100 times faster than that! *Li-Fi (also written as LiFi) is a wireless communication technology which utilizes light to transmit data and position between devices. K.I.M.S  KEY INTEGRATED MONETARY SYSTEM GLOBAL REPOSITORY POINT of SALE SYSTEM  P.O.S. LIGHT OPERATING SYSTEM AI ASSET BACKED BackEnd BASE FINANCIAL PLATFORM GLOBAL REPOSITORY  Funding Source KEY INTEGRATED MONETARY SYSTEM  Transfer System GLOBAL REPOSITORY  Point of Sale System (P.O.S) Store MONEY TRANSFER MECHANISM CURRENCY of GOLD  NEW ASSET BACKED CURRENCY  DIRECT CURRENT ENERGY from SOURCE LIGHT OPERATING SYSTEM AI

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In 2024, one of the standout discussions revolved around the evolution of remote production and integrating private 5G networks to bolster connectivity. Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/ASRJd #5G #Celona #Haivision #VidOvation

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What is D2X? Introduced NAB 2024 this week Las Vegas. https://lnkd.in/eKMeePJa D2X standards recognize the essential role software plays in defining the Network, disaggregated RAN, UE, and service applications (APPs). Figure 6-1 shows the D2X service reception model, which facilitates market driven APP development and innovation using D2X standards. The horizontal dashed line shows the division of model between what is defined in the D2X standard and what is defined in the market. Figure 6-1 is shown from receiver UE perspective. 1)     The D2X Receiver / UE 2)     UE RF and Baseband Signal Processing Hardware (SDR) D2X (L1-L2) 3)     D2X (DLP) Interface Between HW (SDR) /Software on UE 4)     UE Software (L2-L7) processing for a Service Category (APP_ID) 5)     DST Specific Signaling and D2X Header Extension Signaling for (APP_ID) The L1/L2 layers shown are processed by Hardware/ SDR (2) on UE to acquire D2X signal and demodulate, FEC decode, time de-interleave, etc. and pass DLP L2 streams over DLP Interface (3) from hardware/SDR to software (4) on UE. The APP_ID for a specific Service Category uses extended (5) DST and D2X Header Extension for specific L2 signaling to support APP functionality. Example (10) Use Cases mapped to Service Categories and APPs Developed: ·        Emergency Alerts ·        Entertainment ·        Education ·        Mobile Television ·        Radio, Podcasts ·        File Delivery, Firmware Updates ·        Automotive ·        Smart City ·        5G Convergence ·        5G Convergence First Responders Each use case envisioned in market and developed is virtually mapped to a Service Category and can have a maximum 256 APPs developed and registered D2X network (APP_ID). These use cases are for D2X Multicast Broadcast that may be combined with 5G NR for QoS. The last service category 5G Convergence First Responders is seen as synergistic. Since, D2X and 5G NR (MBS) standards are diverse and optimized with different strengths and topologies. They can be used together synergistically for innovative use of the spectrum in times of emergency. The 5G convergence first responder use case is excellent for 5G NR (MBS) based on unicast framework with low latency and a single cell topology (strength) for first responders group communications. When complemented by D2X with a larger service area topology (strength). That multicast common data video in wider service area for first responders either at or in route to emergency scene. This D2X and 5G NR convergence is synergistic and can help save lives.  Note: for private APP development by government agencies, public safety service, homeland security, etc. These services are usually encrypted in addition virtual sub-frame carrying private service category is not discoverable by public.

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