On September 22^nd, 2021 at 10:30 am, it will take place a seminar titled “Professional AV over IP: trends, challenges and opportunities”, held by Matteo Naccari, Lead Video Codec Engineer at Audinate (Cambridge, UK), at Room 2A of Building 20, second floor (Via Ponzio 34/5, Milano).

Ethernet technologies have evolved over the past few years to guarantee reliable data transmission and synchronization. This has enabled the migration of content production from bespoke and dedicated networks to IP ones. All of this opens the door to a variety of new opportunities whereby Audio and Video (AV) devices can be easily discovered and connected via simple switches. Studio production can be delocalized, and events may happen remotely (e.g. musicians playing at different locations) to accommodate mobility restrictions imposed by the pandemic.

In this context, the delivery of precisely timed audio-visual signals can be accomplished by systems such as the Audinate Dante, a software and hardware platform solution which enables such a reliable transport, guaranteeing interoperability and ease the configuration of the network. This seminar will introduce the main concepts behind a Dante network and its recent extension to convey visual data in application scenarios associated professional AV. The talk will discuss the challenges faced in the AV over IP scenario and present the typical operating points such as video formats, compression standards and bandwidth required. Also, some remarks on the analysis of data travelling through Dante networks will be commented.


Speaker’s bio

Matteo Naccari is a Lead Video Codec Engineer at Audinate in Cambridge - UK. He earned a PhD in Information Science Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano under the supervision of Professor Stefano Tubaro with a scholarship funded by STMicroelectronics. He has been a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Telecommunications Institute – Lisbon and then moved to cover positions in the industry, first as Senior Technologist in the R&D division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), then as Principal Engineer at DisplayLink (currently Synaptics) and finally Audinate. In 2017 he was an invited scientist at the Science and Technology Research Laboratory (STRL) of the public Japanese broadcaster (NHK) in Tokyo. His current research interests are on video coding technologies to serve professional Audio and Video transmitted over IP networks. He’s a Senior member of the IEEE and author or co-author of several conference and journal contributions