A panel session on the harmonization opportunities ahead for the broadcast standard ATSC 3.0, and 5G, at last week’s virtual Fall TV 2021 event was risking a dangerously optimistic narrative about the natural fit between the two technologies. There is a new research paper doing the rounds exploring the topic of ATSC 3.0 with Access Traffic Steering, Switching and Splitting (ATSSS), a technology first introduced by wireless standards group 3GPP in 2019 with Release 16. ATSSS was originally defined to integrate non-3GPP networks like WiFi and wireline into 5G, including accommodating IP-based broadcast standards like ATSC 3.0. The paper was referenced at Fall TV by Harmonic’s Joel Wilhite, senior systems design engineer, who was discussing the ATSSS research with ATSC…