RIST on Demand Enhances IPMX in Network’s Production and Monitoring Streams 

We look at a solution crafted for one of the big three U.S. networks for sharing and monitoring of services and production streams created in North America and Europe. SDI, MPEGTS and SMPTE ST 2110 sources are encoded at either New York or London facilities to h264 (6 and 3 Mbps). The services are then forwarded freely to other locations via RIST Error Correcting Transport Protocol, using libRIST. At the receiving facilities, a media server solution comprising several virtual servers reads the RIST directly using a new concept we have coined as RIST On-Demand. The media servers then serve MPEG/TS or WebRTC to a mix of engineers, general staff and network personnel, some of whom work remote and others at the production facility. The media servers additionally relay the RIST to headquarters locations using dedicated RIST enabled players. The resulting IPMX is both high quality and low latency.