Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Farjami & Farjami Llp

Nishith Shah

Michael J Strein

Benjamin H Kepler

Craig L Beardsley

Jerome G Liscano

Carl A Brown

David E Potter

Nigel Brownett

Embodiments provide systems and techniques for a network architecture design for a converged media facility. An example system includes a plurality of internet protocol (IP) networks, where each IP network is configured to provide a different service for the media facility. At least one of the IP networks is a production media network configured to route multicast media traffic. The system also includes a plurality of first network devices coupled to the plurality of IP networks and a controller configured to manage at least one IP traffic flow within at least one of the plurality of IP networks.

Reference architecture for an internet protocol (IP) production media network

Embodiments disclosed herein provide techniques to selectively distribute Precision Time Protocol (PTP) data in a network. The network can include multiple different network devices (e.g., switches) connected to form a network architecture (e.g., a spine/leaf architecture). Rather than distributing the PTP data (e.g., PTP timestamps) through all the network devices in order to synchronize local clocks to a global, master clock, the embodiments herein describe an out-of-band distribution network which selectively distributes the PTP data to select network devices in the network.

Robust distribution of IP timing signals

Robust distribution of ip timing signals

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