Bridge Technologies

15/10/2026

Bridge’s working relationship with NEP goes back longer than most. They provided a real-world testing ground for Bridge’s IP-driven innovations, whilst Bridge delivered cutting-edge solutions to meet NEP’s industry-leading approach to remote, live production.

As our own Simen K. Frostad discusses in this IBC-recorded NEP podcast, that made it surprisingly straightforward to bring Bridge’s software VB440 to the NEP Platform: all driven by shared understanding, shared vision, and years of experience maximising the potential of IP-driven production.

Talking with Jordan Conigliaro and Neil Smith, Simen discusses the importance of asking ‘why’ when it comes to implementing software-based solutions, and how this informs the development of projects like NEP Platform, as NEP take their years of practical experience in production and make waves in the vendor space.

We’d say it’s well worth a listen. You can find it here on Apple:

https://lnkd.in/ePxW8K3k

or here on Spotify:

https://lnkd.in/eTGzjjpz

14/10/2026

To Infinity - and Beyond

A theme we've been pushing recently is that with each new functionality added to the VB330, we've expanded it from a 'mere' monitoring device into a solution which sits at the heart of broadcast operations - performing multiple functions across compliance, diagnostics, and operational workflows - function which were once the domain of entirely separate hardware.

With our latest update, we've essentially created an 'infinity recorder', where users can capture massive amounts of ingest video in an infinite loop, creating a huge video buffer. With the RECORD-OPT-200 licence, the system can support up to 200 concurrent streams, with keyframe alignment at clip retrieval to ensure proper ingestion into the MAM.

One large northern European content distributor is using exactly this setup today:

• Ingesting 37 high-bandwidth HEVC mezzanine feeds at around 10 Mbit/s per stream

• Storing them onto a 120TB array, granting roughly 30 days of content storage

• Retrieving content via machine interface for handover to their in-house Media Asset Management system

In their case, the main advantage is content repurposing. But it also offers significant potential for ad localisation - allowing broadcasters to re-purpose and regionalise advertisement opportunities before redistribution. It also serves as a convenient archive and backup for content that is otherwise difficult to access, for both technical and non-technical reasons.

If you'd like to understand more about this functionality - or how the VB330 is becoming a mission-critical, multi-function tool in any distribution environment - get in touch.

30/09/2026

When specialist is no longer enough...What's the future of Broadcast?

Broadcast has always relied on specialists: people with deep expertise in a particular discipline. But as production and distribution converge and engineers are expected to work across more of the broadcast chain, a different requirement is emerging.
This article introduces the idea of the ‘specialistic’ function: an advanced task that no longer needs to be the exclusive domain of a dedicated specialist. With the right tools, complex functions can become accessible to a broader range of professionals without compromising the depth, precision or quality they require.

The future of broadcast is not about eliminating specialists, but making specialist-level capabilities more widely accessible.
https://bridgetech.tv/broadcasts-new-reality-from-specialists-to-specialistic/

22/09/2026

Our annual Bridge Awards debuted at IBC 2026!

Normally held at our home offices in Oslo, we thought why not spread the love to Amsterdam, so that all our business partners could collect their awards (this year a very stylish wh**ky decanter). A huge congratulations to our category winners, and an especially big congratulations to our Business Partner of the Year: SHM Broadcast GmbH

Project Implementation of the Year: RomTek Electronics SRL

Market Developer of the Year: 2110 Solutions

Service Excellence of the Year: Techtel

The Bridge Choice Award: Diversified,
Skyline Communications and TV Connect Austria

Communicator of the year: Monitorizacion y Medidas - MoMe

Integrator of the Year: Broadcast Solutions Group

Technology Partner of the year: NEP Group, Inc.

Business Partner of the Year Runners Up: VP Media Solutions and Techex

Business Partner of the Year winner: SHM Broadcast GmbH

22/09/2026

07/09/2026

The broadcast industry loves a big number. 100G. 200G. The higher the better. We're just as guilty, because catering to high density operations unlocks a lot of doors (and it looks cool).

But the reality for many operations - OB trucks, remote facilities, smaller studios - is that 10G is the practical ceiling, not a compromise. So whilst pushing for bigger is good, it's not always better. Indeed, what's 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 is learning to do more with less: at least, that's always been our mantra.

It turns out, it's Blackmagic Design's too. Their new IP10 codec was built for that world. And from IBC next week, the VB440 will monitor it natively. This means engineers working in bandwidth-constrained environments can deploy ST2110 workflows over widely available 10GE links, without sacrificing the depth of visibility they expect from production-side monitoring. The codec itself is license-free, low-latency (eight-pixel samples), and maintains 10-bit 4:2:2 colour performance. The VB440, meanwhile, still does everything it has always done - full scopes, immersive audio analysis, packet capture, PTP timing, AV sync, signal generation - all accessible via browser to multiple users simultaneously.

We'll be showing the integration on our booth (1.A71). Blackmagic will also be running Bridge tools on theirs. Which is a reasonable indication that both of us are quite invested in this whole idea of true interoperability...

More detail, should you require it, is in the link below. But we'd rather you came and saw us. Or them. Either is good.

https://lnkd.in/g5iYF3ZU

07/09/2026

When video fails, who gets the blame?
The viewer does not care whether the problem originated with the content provider, CDN, broadband network, last mile or home device.
They care that the picture froze.

And as video delivery chains become more complex, establishing exactly where something went wrong becomes increasingly important.
That is where compressed video monitoring changes the conversation: providing objective evidence at critical handoff points and replacing finger-pointing with faster problem resolution.

Complexity may be unavoidable. Ambiguity does not have to be.
Read our latest article to discover how broadband operators can establish a single source of truth across the video delivery chain – and move from finger-pointing to fixing.

And if you’re coming to IBC, meet us at booth 1.A71 to see how Bridge Technologies can help you find where the problem really starts – before your customers find it for you.

https://lnkd.in/efUdYEg2

SCTE, Society for Broadband Professionals IBC

19/08/2026

TS Playout, more than a feature.

We’ve been saying for a while that a probe should be more than just a pair of eyes on the network. It should be a tool that actively helps you build, test, and run the broadcast chain. The new TS playout functionality for the VB330 and VB220 is exactly that.

It turns what was originally ‘just’ a monitoring device (albeit an incredibly sophisticated, highly functional and incredibly intuitive one) into a device that performs a far greater range of roles. Not only can it record and clip-edit streams for validation, compliance and diagnosis, but now it can actively generate those streams as signals for network setup. Need to validate your entire distribution chain before cameras, switchers, or encoders are even in place? Now you can.

Here’s what it does:

• Plays out pre-recorded or uploaded TS files to any receiver, supporting bitrates up to 100 Mbps per stream, with up to 12 simultaneous playouts.
• Handles SPTS, MPTS, CBR and VBR files - sent to multicast or unicast destinations.
• Uses PTP synchronisation to achieve lab-grade timing with lower PCR jitter than comparable systems, meaning no buffer sync issues and minimal latency.

The tech detail matters, but the bigger story is this: combined with last year’s recording capabilities, the VB330 now moves beyond monitoring. It’s a holistic tool - recording, generating, analysing, all from a single interface.

Come see it in action at IBC (Booth 1.A71) - where you’ll see it just one way we’re committing to the idea of ‘doing more with less’.