SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) has reached an important milestone in standardization of uncompressed video over IP by specifying how to unbundle video, audio and ancillary data over IP within production and editing workflows. This will help unleash the power and flexibility of IP infrastructure at the studio and contribution level especially by removing the constraints of traditional SDI (Serial Data Interface) transport for video. The new standard just published is ST 2110 Standards for Professional Media Over Managed IP Networks, although the first three parts of it, ST 2110-10, 2110-20 and 2110-30 covering video, audio, timing and synchronization between them, were announced at IBC 2017. The big deal is flexibility through separation of streams, which in…