2. Introducing IIJ (Internet Initiative Japan Inc.)
・21 locations throughout Japan, 5 location
around the world
・Each NOC is located on premises protected
by uninterrupted power supplies (UPSs), air
conditioning, fire-fighting equipment, and a
rigorous building access control system.
・Japan's first data center with outside-air
cooled container units.
・ Use of the outside-air cooled container unit
reduced overall power consumption by 40%
compared with traditional data centers.
High-capacity, high-speed digital circuits connect all
IIJ data centers (DC) and network operation centers (NOC).
Backbone Network
IIJ Group DC
Matsue Data Center Park
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IIJ’s Proof of Concept : 2014〜2017
Market Research
Communication with Manufacturers
PoC on top of IIJ IP backbone
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Background of VidMeet
Publish of SMPTE ST 2110
• Protocol suite for the professional video over IP
• Big milestone for user
Evaluation/Demonstration on actual IP networks
• IIJ have been trying PoCs with many makers using 100GbE network
• Demonstration to the preusers using these environments proved to
be very effective
Sharing knowledge on IP transition
• Few lectures and discussions on public
• Briefing sessions are requested by manufacturers and users
Accelerating deployment by VidMeet
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What VidMeet aims
Demonstration/Workshop
• Let user (broadcasting engineer) see and understand Professional
Video over IP is real
• How to learn IP technology
Lecture from the front line
• Manufacturer (both broadcasting and networking)
• People involved in Standardization Activities
• User/Operator
Discussion among broadcasting and networking
engineers
• There is no place to discuss Video over IP in Japan
• People don’t understand who they need to acquire new technology.
• Video engineer’s Meeting space
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Past VidMeet
VidMeet1 (2017/10/04)
• The explanation of Video over IP
technology for video technicians
• Sony NMI live demonstration
• 102 Participants
VidMeet2 (2017/12/11)
• Demystified PTP
• Seiko Solutions, Arista, Sony
• 100 Participants
VidMeet3 (2018/02/19)
• ST 2110 lecture by Mr. John Mailhot
• 98 Participants
VidMeet4 (2018/03/06)
• AMWA NMOS lecture by Mr. Brad Gilmer
(Video Services Forum Executive Director)
• Lecture and IS-04 demo by Panasonic
• 72 Participants
VidMeet5 (2018/07/23)
• NHK IP live production technical PoC
Report
by Ikegami, Studer Japan, Hibino, Otaritec,
Arista, Tectronix, Seiko Solutons
• Panel Discussion
• 160 Participants
VidMeet6 (2018/10/22)
• Multicast for dummies and Telemetry
• Wave Splitter Japan, Arista
• 120 Participants
VidMeet7 (2019/03/18)
• How to create Video over IP Networks
including multicast, NMOS, PTP
• Cisco, Melllanox, IIJ
• 143 Participants
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Coming VidMeet
VidMeet8
• Theme: Controller for Broadcasting, Networking, Monitoring
• June 17, Monday, 2019
• Technical-oriented and State-of-the-Art lecture is desirable.
• VidMeet audience does not want to hear not only sales talk, because they
are broadcast engineer.
• An actual example is preferable for audience.
• 3-4 speakers from each vendor.
• Around 40-50 minites lecture, including Q&A session.
• 2PM-6PM planned.
• Over 100 participants estimated.
• At IIJ, Iidabashi, Tokyo
• https://www.iij.ad.jp/en/company/about/map/head-office.html
Notas del editor
Hello all. My name is Bunji Yamamoto. I come from IIJ, the oldest and biggest Internet Service Provider in Japan. It is a great honor to the speech here, VidTrans18. Thank you Mr. Brad Gilmer, I appreciate inviting me at the city of stars, of professional video and audio engineers gathering here.
Let me introduce our company and experience briefly at first. IIJ has the nationwide and global IP backbone, as well as data centers, our own cloud facilities, so our services are based on such resources. My background is the streaming media technology. That is already established as a CDN market.
I believe the next one is the professional video and audio over IP. I think we could utilize our IP and MPLS based backbone as a media service for broadcasters. So I had started to drive Video over IP technology for these few years into the brand-new market. From viewpoint of the Internet engineering, much medium has been moved to IP world, like newspapers, telephone, radio, etc. Now we are in the movement from SDI to IP, so I think it would be the biggest and last one.
As part of that, I have made many Proof of Concepts using IIJ’s 100GbE backbone with manufacturers like Sony, Medialinks, Evertz, Grass Valley, Embrionix, LAWO and so on. It is a very rare chance for manufacturers, because they want to try their equipments with the actual environment. Through such experiences, I am sure IP is real. It is a great opportunity that we could be involved in such a revolutional activity.
Unfortunately, there is no good community to share that among broadcasters, manufactures, integrators, and providers. I also feel the necessity of mutual communications and understandings among peoples involved professional video and audio over IP technology. In North America and Europe, there are many remarkable actions such as VidTrans, held by Video Services Forum each year, IP Showcase, held at NAB and IBC, and so on. Though, in Japan, it is very few events about professional video and audio over IP. It is a loss of opportunity. You know, there is a subsidiary of AIMS in Japan, but I assume their activities is the very beginning at this point.
Meanwhile, I have been working on demonstration experiments on Video over IP technology for several years. I feel that it is time to feed back the findings obtained to the user to the user. In other words, we have reached the stage where the video over IP technology can widely demonstrate that it is ready.
So I decided to start the meeting, “VidMeet”. As you can imagine, I would say respectfully that name is taken from “VidTrans”. I have been in here third time, VidTrans is really exciting conference in this area. Technology focused, earning many activities, discussing the cutting edge.
VidMeet is an event for sharing, discussing and demonstrating the state-of-the-art technology of the professional video and audio over IP. Its activity is voluntary and community based. Because I am an engineer, I really like the community which have a good atmosphere to share, discuss, and improve the technology. Concerning technology itself, it should be equality beyond the position of the vendor and the user. (I don’t like the engineers at broadcasters sometimes act like a king against the venders.) This is the our way of communication comes from a habit of IP and IT people.
VidMeet4 will come at next week. Guest speaker is Mr. Brad Gilmer. He also willingly accepted my offer. The theme will be AMWA NMOS and JT-NM. NMOS becomes hot topics in Japan too, but very few people know in detail. So Mr. Brad will introduce the activity of AMWA and the detail of NMOS. In addition to that, what JT-NM aims is also told by him. JT-NM is the very strategic movement. They have a power to change the future of broadcasting technology. Personally, I really want to know about it.
