By Brian Galante
Macnica is now shipping its MEP100 SmartNIC product, and is looking forward to telling more about the offering at the IBC 2024 conference in Amsterdam.
The first units now operational within an undisclosed U.S-based global broadcaster’s on-premise media workflows. Formally introduced at the 2024 NAB Show in April, IBC marks the EMEA debut of the 100Gb hardware device, which drives ST 2110 media processing, stream protection and bandwidth utilization in a powerful, compact form factor.
The MEP100 is interoperable with hardware and software products, offering developers a wide creative platform for the broadcast and ProAV industries. The MEP100 also pairs with Macnica’s M2S solution, which extends ST 2110 and IPMX workflows to streaming media networks and connects to all hardware points including common IT systems and computers.
MEP100 customers will receive the M2S SDK at no additional cost.
New for IBC, Macnica has added JPEG-XS compression technology through its FPGA-based on-board architecture, making it possible to manage compressed ST 2110 streams alongside uncompressed streams.
Operationally, the MEP100’s full ST 2110 stack transfers video, audio and data directly to and from GPU memory or to application memory through kernel bypass technology. Paired with dedicated PTP acceleration, network path redundancy, on-board JPEG-XS compression and the M2S SDK, the MEP100 includes everything required for seamless ST 2110 integration with the customer’s application
