AES New York 2018
AoIP Pavilion Session Details
Wednesday, October 17, 10:30 am — 11:00 am (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
Introduction to the AoIP Technology Pavilion
Presenter:Terry Holton, Yamaha R&D Centre - London, UK
The Audio-over-IP Technology Pavilion is a significant new initiative created by the AES in partnership with the Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS). The pavilion will promote professional IP media networking as well as providing the latest information about this rapidly developing field through practical demonstrations and an extensive presentation program. This session will provide an introduction to the various aspects of the pavilion including the AIMS demonstration system, exhibitors’ Pods, and the AoIP Presentation Theater.
Wednesday, October 17, 11:00 am — 11:30 am (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
Optimizing Networks for Media
Presenter:Patrick Killianey, Yamaha Professional Audio - Buena Park, CA, USA
This session will examine the network technologies used to optimize a network for modern media transport. With this knowledge, attendees will have a much better understanding of how to manage networks with mixed traffic and have the basic knowledge to begin diagnosing networked audio issues. This session will cover TCP vs. UDP, Unicast vs. Multicast and Quality of Service (QoS).
Wednesday, October 17, 11:30 am — 12:00 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
The Audio Parts of SMPTE ST 2110 Explained
Presenter:Andreas Hildebrand, ALC NetworX GmbH - Munich, Germany
This session will explain the fundamentals and possible variations of audio transport within ST 2110 and its compatibility with AES67.
Wednesday, October 17, 12:00 pm — 12:30 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
AoIP: Anatomy of a Full-Stack Implementation
Presenter:Ievgen Kostiukevych, European Broadcasting Union - Le Grand-Saconnex, Genéve, Switzerland
The presentation will explain that there is much more to consider when building an AoIP infrastructure than just the AES67 standard. The challenges of synchronization and clocking, discovery and registration, device and network control will be explained, and some solutions will be offered.
Wednesday, October 17, 12:30 pm — 1:00 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
RAVENNA and ST 2110
Presenter:Andreas Hildebrand, ALC NetworX GmbH - Munich, Germany
This session will explain the fundamentals of RAVENNA and how it relates to AES67 & ST 2110, explaining why RAVENNA offers the fastest and most flexible options for AES67 & ST 2110 compliance.
Wednesday, October 17, 1:00 pm — 1:30 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
Telos Infinity: Breaking the Matrix with AES67, Next Generation Intercom
Presenter:Martin Dyster, The Telos Alliance
Telos Infinity IP Intercom is a complete reimagining of broadcast communications technology developed by the Telos Alliance engineering team that invented AoIP for broadcast in 2003. Infinity replaces outmoded matrix technology with an advanced, distributed fully AES67 compliant network solution that provides superior functionality in a simplified, more elegant form. Being matrix-free allows plug-and-play networked hardware and software devices to be added to the system as part of a planned or ad-hoc change, without ever worrying that you might exceed the number of available ports on a matrix.
Wednesday, October 17, 1:30 pm — 2:00 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
AES70 at a Glance
Presenter:Ethan Wetzell, OCA Alliance
In the world of media networking, much attention is given to content transport, but an equally important component is how connected devices can be controlled. This presentation will discuss the AES70 open control standard, how it fits within the media networking landscape, and will serve as an introduction to its structure and capabilities for device control.
Wednesday, October 17, 2:00 pm — 2:30 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
Audio over IP: Practical Requirements for Real-World Usability
Presenter:Brad Price, Audinate - Portland, OR, USA
As professional audio installations become synonymous with IP networks, the industry has been abuzz with discussions of protocols and other necessary transport foundations. In reality, people work with solutions that build on these underlying concepts and provide a plethora of additional functionality that makes audio-over-IP usable in the real world. This presentation explores how coherent solutions enhance the experience of audio networking, and how features beyond transport are crucial to the widespread adoption of the technology by the channel and end users.
Wednesday, October 17, 2:30 pm — 3:00 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
Sample-Accurate Synchronization of SMPTE ST 2110 Audio Streams
Presenter:Andreas Hildebrand, ALC NetworX GmbH - Munich, Germany
Detailed explanation of the synchronization fundamentals of ST 2110 and how these can be applied to achieve sample-accurate synchronization among audio streams.
Wednesday, October 17, 3:00 pm — 3:30 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
Monitoring Audio Streams in the IP Network-Based Workflow
Presenter:Aki Mäkivirta, Genelec Oy - Iisalmi, Finland
In this presentation, Aki will explain why the entire studio audio signal paths are now being networked, how IP-connectable monitoring loudspeakers are being used across the broadcast industry to directly monitor IP audio streams, and how installed audio applications can also benefit from this technology.
Wednesday, October 17, 3:30 pm — 4:00 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
ANEMAN: Keeping Audio Networks under Control
Presenter:Dominique Brulhart, Merging Technologies - Puidoux, Switzerland
With the raising and ubiquitous adoption of AES67, audio networks are rapidly becoming more open but as a consequence more and more heterogenic. The new challenge is to keep these networks under control and offer tools allowing managing them as easily as proprietary networks.
Wednesday, October 17, 4:00 pm — 4:30 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
NMOS: The Key to Wide Adoption of IP Infrastructures
Presenter:Rick Seegull, Riedel Communications - Burbank, CA, USA
This session will explain the differences between NMOS specifications IS-04, IS-05 and IS-06. It will also provide a behind the scenes look into IS-04 and IS-05.
Wednesday, October 17, 4:30 pm — 5:00 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
AoIP and AES67—Why Should You Care?
Presenter:Ievgen Kostiukevych, European Broadcasting Union - Le Grand-Saconnex, Genéve, Switzerland
Are you building a radio studio or designing a live venue? Are you confused by the number of audio solutions on the market? The presentation will explain the difference between audio over IP solutions and legacy audio networking solutions and why you should consider going IP.
Wednesday, October 17, 5:00 pm — 5:30 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
AoIP, AES67, and SMPTE 2110-30, Implementation in the Real World
Presenter:Ken Tankel, Linear Acoustic - Malvern, PA, USA
What are some of the benefits of AES67 and how does AES67 fit into the SMPTE ST 2110 standard? What are the practical requirements of putting an AoIP network in place that can allow equipment from different manufacturers to share audio over IP (AoIP) audio streams? What are the pitfalls and what are the benefits?
Wednesday, October 17, 5:30 pm — 6:00 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
Routing AES67 Audio
Presenter:Anthony Kuzub, Ward-Beck Systems - Toronto, ON, Canada; AES - Vice Chair - Toronto Section
What was once a piece of masking tape and a sharpie marker is now a dynamic database running on a network; there must be a simpler way. Using a common language leveraging the work done in the already accepted RFC standards, a hugely complex audio system can be augmented with metadata.
Thursday, October 18, 10:30 am — 11:00 am (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
Introduction to the AoIP Technology Pavilion
Presenter:Terry Holton, Yamaha R&D Centre - London, UK
The Audio-over-IP Technology Pavilion is a significant new initiative created by the AES in partnership with the Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS). The pavilion will promote professional IP media networking as well as providing the latest information about this rapidly developing field through practical demonstrations and an extensive presentation program. This session will provide an introduction to the various aspects of the pavilion including the AIMS demonstration system, exhibitors’ Pods, and the AoIP Presentation Theater.
Thursday, October 18, 11:00 am — 11:30 am (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
AES67-2018 PICS: A Basis for Interoperability Assessment
Presenter:Gints Linis, Telos Alliance - Riga, Latvia
AES67-2018 has a new Annex G - Protocol implementation conformance criteria. The presentation will provide background information on what PICS is about as well as a brief history and the current status of the AES67 conformance criteria work, and explain how it can help equipment manufacturers and system integrators. Structure of the provided PICS proforma will be discussed and hints for completing it will be provided. A closer look at AES67 clauses will reveal examples of potential ambiguities and demonstrate how the provided conformance criteria help to resolve them.
Thursday, October 18, 11:30 am — 12:00 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
RAV2SAP: A Value-Added AES67 Micro Service
Presenter:Anthony Kuzub, Ward-Beck Systems - Toronto, ON, Canada; AES - Vice Chair - Toronto Section
AES67 Devices are not required to implement discovery services. Ravenna to SAP is an application that manages, monitors and creates announcements to networked devices. With this SDP translation and creation tool, RAV2SAP can provide announcements of known transmitters that don't have announcement and discovery mechanisms.
Thursday, October 18, 12:00 pm — 12:30 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
From Analog, to Digital, to Audio-over-IP—A Manufacturer's Perspective
Presenter:Gordon Kapes, Studio Technologies, Inc. - Skokie, IL, USA
Thursday, October 18, 12:30 pm — 1:00 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
AES67 and SMPTE ST 2110—How Are They the Same, How Are They Different?
Presenter:Rick Seegull, Riedel Communications - Burbank, CA, USA
This session will provide a comparison between the broad specification of AES67 and SMPTE 2110-30 requirements.
Thursday, October 18, 1:00 pm — 1:30 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
AES70 at a Glance
Presenter:Ethan Wetzell, OCA Alliance
In the world of media networking, much attention is given to content transport, but an equally important component is how connected devices can be controlled. This presentation will discuss the AES70 open control standard, how it fits within the media networking landscape, and will serve as an introduction to its structure and capabilities for device control.
Thursday, October 18, 1:30 pm — 2:00 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
The Audio Parts of SMPTE ST 2110 Explained
Presenter:Andreas Hildebrand, ALC NetworX GmbH - Munich, Germany
This session will explain the fundamentals and possible variations of audio transport within ST 2110 and its compatibility with AES67.
Thursday, October 18, 2:00 pm — 2:30 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
Audio over IP: Practical Requirements for Real-World Usability
Presenter:Brad Price, Audinate - Portland, OR, USA
As professional audio installations become synonymous with IP networks, the industry has been abuzz with discussions of protocols and other necessary transport foundations. In reality, people work with solutions that build on these underlying concepts and provide a plethora of additional functionality that makes audio-over-IP usable in the real world. This presentation explores how coherent solutions enhance the experience of audio networking, and how features beyond transport are crucial to the widespread adoption of the technology by the channel and end users.
Thursday, October 18, 2:30 pm — 3:00 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
Sample-Accurate Synchronization of SMPTE ST 2110 Audio Streams
Presenter:Andreas Hildebrand, ALC NetworX GmbH - Munich, Germany
Detailed explanation of the synchronization fundamentals of ST 2110 and how these can be applied to achieve sample-accurate synchronization among audio streams.
Thursday, October 18, 3:00 pm — 3:30 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
AoIP: Anatomy of a Full-Stack Implementation
Presenter:Ievgen Kostiukevych, European Broadcasting Union - Le Grand-Saconnex, Genéve, Switzerland
The presentation will explain that there is much more to consider when building an AoIP infrastructure than just the AES67 standard. The challenges of synchronization and clocking, discovery and registration, device and network control will be explained, and some solutions will be offered.
Thursday, October 18, 3:30 pm — 4:00 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
Monitoring Audio Streams in the IP Network-Based Workflow
Presenter:Aki Mäkivirta, Genelec Oy - Iisalmi, Finland
In this presentation, Aki will explain why the entire studio audio signal paths are now being networked, how IP-connectable monitoring loudspeakers are being used across the broadcast industry to directly monitor IP audio streams, and how installed audio applications can also benefit from this technology.
Thursday, October 18, 4:00 pm — 4:30 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
ANEMAN: Keeping Audio Networks under Control
Presenter:Dominique Brulhart, Merging Technologies - Puidoux, Switzerland
With the raising and ubiquitous adoption of AES67, audio networks are rapidly becoming more open but as a consequence more and more heterogenic. The new challenge is to keep these networks under control and offer tools allowing managing them as easily as proprietary networks.
Thursday, October 18, 4:30 pm — 5:00 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
NMOS: The Key to Wide Adoption of IP Infrastructures
Presenter:Rick Seegull, Riedel Communications - Burbank, CA, USA
This session will explain the differences between NMOS specifications IS-04, IS-05 and IS-06. It will also provide a behind the scenes look into IS-04 and IS-05.
Thursday, October 18, 5:00 pm — 5:30 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
Telos Infinity: Breaking the Matrix with AES67, Next Generation Intercom
Presenter:Martin Dyster, The Telos Alliance
Telos Infinity IP Intercom is a complete reimagining of broadcast communications technology developed by the Telos Alliance engineering team that invented AoIP for broadcast in 2003. Infinity replaces outmoded matrix technology with an advanced, distributed fully AES67 compliant network solution that provides superior functionality in a simplified, more elegant form. Being matrix-free allows plug-and-play networked hardware and software devices to be added to the system as part of a planned or ad-hoc change, without ever worrying that you might exceed the number of available ports on a matrix.
Thursday, October 18, 5:30 pm — 6:00 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
What's New in AES70-2018
Presenter:Jeff Berryman, OCA Alliance
A revision of the AES70 media network control standard is currently in its public review phase, and will become official soon. It is a compatible upgrade to AES70-2015, the current standard. This talk will summarize the features of the new version.
Friday, October 19, 10:30 am — 11:00 am (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
AES67-101: The Basics of AES67
Presenter:Anthony Kuzub, Ward-Beck Systems - Toronto, ON, Canada; AES - Vice Chair - Toronto Section
An exploration of the AES67 standards document. Experience an overview of the basics of synchronization, transport, audio encoding, packet timing, buffering mechanisms, and sessions description.
Friday, October 19, 11:00 am — 11:30 am (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
Audio over IP: Practical Requirements for Real-World Usability
Presenter:Brad Price, Audinate - Portland, OR, USA
As professional audio installations become synonymous with IP networks, the industry has been abuzz with discussions of protocols and other necessary transport foundations. In reality, people work with solutions that build on these underlying concepts and provide a plethora of additional functionality that makes audio-over-IP usable in the real world. This presentation explores how coherent solutions enhance the experience of audio networking, and how features beyond transport are crucial to the widespread adoption of the technology by the channel end users.
Friday, October 19, 11:30 am — 12:00 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
AES67 and SMPTE ST 2110—How Are They the Same, How Are They Different?
Presenter:Rick Seegull, Riedel Communications - Burbank, CA, USA
Friday, October 19, 12:00 pm — 12:30 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
The Two Control Layers of Large Media Systems
Presenter:Jeff Berryman, OCA Alliance
The growth of IP networking technology is giving rise to larger IP projects, in which media networks may interconnect large facilities—campuses, studio complexes, and cities. For such projects, it is important to provide a full range of features, extending from overall asset and workflow management down to detailed control of device operating parameters. This talk offers a two-layer design concept to help cover this range and examines how current standards fit into the picture.
Friday, October 19, 12:30 pm — 1:00 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
AoIP, AES67, and SMPTE 2110-30, Implementation in the Real World
Presenter:Ken Tankel, Linear Acoustic - Malvern, PA, USA
What are some of the benefits of AES67 and how does AES67 fit into the SMPTE ST 2110 standard? What are the practical requirements of putting an AoIP network in place that can allow equipment from different manufacturers to share audio over IP (AoIP) audio streams? What are the pitfalls and what are the benefits?
Friday, October 19, 1:00 pm — 1:30 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
AES67 PICS, Certification, Self-Certification and Plugfests
Presenter:Kevin Gross, AVA Networks - Boulder, CO, USA
Friday, October 19, 1:30 pm — 2:00 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
How AES67 & RAVENNA Enables Innovation
Presenter:Bill Rounopoulos, Ross Video
Friday, October 19, 2:00 pm — 2:30 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
From Analog, to Digital, to Audio-over-IP—A Manufacturer's Perspective
Presenter:Gordon Kapes, Studio Technologies, Inc. - Skokie, IL, USA
Friday, October 19, 2:30 pm — 3:00 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
Optimizing Networks for Media
Presenter:Patrick Killianey, Yamaha Professional Audio - Buena Park, CA, USA
This session will examine the network technologies used to optimize a network for modern media transport. With this knowledge, attendees will have a much better understanding of how to manage networks with mixed traffic and have the basic knowledge to begin diagnosing networked audio issues. This session will cover TCP vs. UDP, Unicast vs. Multicast and Quality of Service (QoS).
Friday, October 19, 3:00 pm — 3:30 pm (AoIP Pavilion Theater)
Monitoring Audio Streams in the IP Network-Based Workflow
Presenter:Aki Mäkivirta, Genelec Oy - Iisalmi, Finland
In this presentation, Aki will explain why the entire studio audio signal paths are now being networked, how IP-connectable monitoring loudspeakers are being used across the broadcast industry to directly monitor IP audio streams, and how installed audio applications can also benefit from this technology.