SDI as a well-known standard within the last three decades has played a major role in the broadcast production and distribution chain. This point to point communication standard enables a safe infrastructure and a high-quality improvement in received audios and videos. On the other hand, due to the lack of flexibility, during the changes in technology, SDI increases the costs for changing all the main equipment and hardware. Also, other problems, like the volume of cabling and the high amount of time spent on creating the necessary infrastructure, make everyone’s attention to the use of this IP infrastructure as the main foundation of signaling.

Sending live videos through traditional Telecom like microwaves, fibers, and satellites is expensive. Also, traditional Telecom needs extra expense for maintenance and transportation. In professional view, heavy weight and time-consuming installation of traditional equipment would result in slow reactions of users which is not desirable in modern broadcasting.
Modern IP-based equipment not only solved these drawbacks, but also provided more options.