Active PAR

P3420

Standard for Aggregated Content Delivery Link Protocol for Radio and Other Audio and Data Services

This standard defines an extensible data transfer protocol intended to carry multiple, often dissimilar, data streams synchronized with one another to support delivery of potentially complex radio program and data content along with associated control information, primarily from studios or other content sources to radio transmitters or other distribution channels, e.g., internally within a “studio” complex, as a Studio-to-Transmitter Link (STL), or for network program distribution. This standard provides the foundation for a suite of documents, the remainder of which define formatting of individual signals and data streams that are to be carried by the protocol described herein. The protocol utilizes Internet Protocol (IP) and various of its supplementary protocols, together with several services that permit synchronization and improve reliability and security of data delivery, as defined in this document. The protocol can include carriage of sampled and digitized analog signals along with a variety of data stream types. The protocol is adaptable to include carriage of any sort of data stream requiring such carriage that can be formatted as a defined Internet Protocol (IP) stream. The protocol does not define the physical layer bearers of the data streams defined herein.

Standard Committee
BTS/BTSC - Broadcast Technology Standards Committee
Status
Active PAR
PAR Approval
2023-09-21

Working Group Details

Society
IEEE Broadcast Technology Society
Standard Committee
BTS/BTSC - Broadcast Technology Standards Committee
Working Group
ACDL - Aggregated Content Delivery Link Protocol
IEEE Program Manager
Patricia Roder
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Working Group Chair
Roswell Clark

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