PTP Done Right For ST-2110: How to Avoid the Timing Pitfalls in IP Broadcast
Are You Prepared for the Move to ST 2110?
In this episode of Broadcast2Post, Key Code Media dives into one of the most critical and most misunderstood pieces of any ST 2110 or IP-based deployment: PTP (Precision Time Protocol) timing.
As newsrooms, stadiums, and live production facilities move to IP, timing is no longer a mysterious black box in the rack room. It is a live network service that can make or break your entire workflow.
We will walk through:
- How PTP actually works inside real-world ST 2110 plants
- Why timing issues often appear as “random glitches” in cameras, multiviewers, replay, and audio
- The essential details you must get right: profiles, boundary clocks, BMCA, QoS, and more
Then we will go hands-on.
We will log into an actual PTP and timing monitoring system live on screen to demonstrate best practices and show you exactly what healthy vs. problem situations look like, including grandmaster status, domains, offsets, jitter, and the alarms you want to see before you go to air.
Our goal is to help your team make smarter decisions around timing architecture, vendor selection, network design, and day-two operations so PTP becomes the most stable and predictable part of your system.
Do not miss this free live-streamed discussion, and stay until the end for a live Q&A with our engineering team.
Date & Location
Online (Tuesday, 12/2 – 10AM PT)
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In This Episode
Key Considerations for PTP:
Aligning Timing, Network Design, and Vendors
A practical breakdown of what every team needs to plan before deploying PTP in an IP-based workflow. Steve walks through the timing basics, network design factors, and vendor coordination steps—ending with a clean, usable checklist you can take into your next ST 2110 project.
Steve Dupaix (Key Code Media) and Nik Kumar (Key Code Media)
PTP Health Check Demo: Reading ST 2110 Timing
We remote into a real client system to show how to validate PTP in an active 2110 environment. Steve and Nik walk through clock states, path redundancy, and real-world monitoring tips so engineers know exactly what “healthy PTP” looks like in the field.
What Can Go Wrong with PTP (and How to Fix It)
A candid conversation about the most common PTP failures—incorrect profiles, boundary clock issues, multicast misconfigurations, and more. Steve and Nik share the fixes, the tools that help, and the preventative steps that keep IP video systems stable and predictable.
Steve Dupaix (Key Code Media) and Nik Kumar (Key Code Media)
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