SDNsquare to Introduce GRIDdiscovery at IBC 2022

SDNsquare to Introduce GRIDdiscovery at IBC 2022: SDNsquare – a leading provider of SDN-based network management solutions for IP production environments – will be attending IBC2022 at booth 10.F40B, where they will be demonstrating the significant upgrades they have introduced to their core solution GRID, whilst also launching their new SDN-based GRIDdiscovery solution, developed to manage existing IP infrastructures.   SDNsquare’s flagship GRID offering constitutes a highly flexible, intuitive and powerful SDN controller for greenfield sites where there is no existing IP-based infrastructure – and thus incorporates design and rollout along with ongoing operational management. But SDNsquare recognised that with the maturation of IP-based production, many broadcasters now maintain legacy IP systems which were implemented in the early days of IP understanding, and which could be significantly optimised through more effective network management. For this, they developed the GRIDdiscovery solution.   In this way, GRIDdiscovery focuses only on management of the operational network. Its name reflects its central role: to ‘discover’ the existing elements on the system, assign them control handles and provide an intuitive UI for their management, loaded with an extended range of wizards which automate and streamline the process, and implement best-practice management decisions upon the network automatically in order to optimise performance – in effect creating ‘a network engineer in a toolbox’.   Suitable for implementation upon any existing network topology, with NMOS and REST API support and active monitoring of switch and flow processes with automated rerouting, GRIDdiscovery constitutes a fully scalable and cost-effective way for broadcasters to leverage the maximum benefit from their IP assets, regardless of age. This allows them to benefit from lower OpEx and maintenance costs, significantly reduces risk in relation to network disruption or failure, grants a greater range of potential functionalities, and reduces overall power consumption, thus granting ecological as well as economic benefit.