The media IP-networking and storage company SDNsquare, co-exhibiting at IBC along with Arista (stand 8.E30) and EMG (stand OE.D01), will present the latest news of the GRID software-defined network controller at the show.

With GRID, users can configure IP data paths without packet loss, with low latency and a controlled bandwidth; and provides the capability to manage any type of topology. Henry Alexander, CEO of SDNsquare, talks about the solution: “The challenge we’re addressing is how to orchestrate the network so that it meets the exacting needs of broadcasters dealing with a wide range of media workflows, and delivering guaranteed Quality of Service per stream on a single converged network with a scalable architecture. GRID delivers IP network management for media that is reliable, flexible and cost-effective and it simply works, whatever the use case, whatever the type of workflow.”

The company will debut at IBC L-Grid, which was showed for the first time at NAB 2019. Alexander speaking: “In today’s networks, high performance nodes are often equipped with high speed network cards – anything from 10 Gigabits to 100 Gigabits. “This can reduce the cabling complexity of the nodes – but it creates an end-to-end speed mismatch with lower bandwidth clients. In turn, this leads to oversubscription in the connecting network. L-GRID was created to address that problem.” WARP, a linearly scalable, clustered storage and computing platform, will be also on both stands.