Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.
NEXT GENERATION MULTI-CHANNEL-TENANT VIRTUALIZED BROADCAST PLATFORM AND 5G CONVERGENCE

Abstract:

Wireless system architectures worldwide are undergoing a paradigm shift today. This, by adopting new technology and wireless system architectures based on Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) that are being instantiated using IT cloud computing methods. The 3 GPP is defining a new 5G radio and 5G core network in release 16 based on a cloud native system architecture. Herein, a new next generation multi-channel-tenant virtualized broadcast platform using SDN/NFV is disclosed using ATSC 3.0 standards A/321, A/322 as a baseline.