Frame-accurate sync for IP production, live events and cloud-based media — at the precision that ST 2110 demands.
ST 2059-2
PTP profile support
AES67
Audio network profile
Portable
Battery-backed grandmaster
Broadcast & Media customers
Sector use case
A short walkthrough of how TimeBeat hardware is deployed across this sector — the architecture, the operational realities and the customer outcomes.
How modern broadcast facilities run frame-accurate IP-based production with PTP grandmasters.
Why
Broadcast moved to IP. ST 2110 split video, audio and ancillary data onto separate streams that now have to be recombined at the receiver with frame-perfect timing. If the clocks drift by even a few microseconds, lips go out of sync with voices, graphics lag the action, and the producer is on the phone to engineering within seconds. Meanwhile, the facility is getting bigger — distributed across cloud and on-prem, with OB trucks and remote production adding even more sync points. Every one of them has to agree on the clock.
Separate video, audio and ANC streams must align to the frame at the receiver. PTP is the only thing holding it together — and it has to be rock-solid across every device, every switch, every time.
When you're live to air, there's no retake. A drifted clock means a lip-sync error that millions of viewers will notice — and you won't be able to fix it until the show is over.
Mobile production units need grandmaster-grade timing in a portable form factor. Battery-backed, shock-rated, deployable without an engineer chained to a rack.
Modern broadcast facilities span on-premise equipment and cloud workflows. Your timing infrastructure has to follow — and still prove accuracy everywhere.
How
Requirements
Compliance & standards
Deployments
01
Open Time Appliance as the facility grandmaster; Open TimeCards in IP gateways, production switchers and ST 2110 encoders for frame-accurate sync end-to-end.
02
Open Time Appliance Mini — battery-powered, palm-sized grandmaster with DOCXO holdover. Drops into the truck, runs off the generator, keeps the show on air.
03
Portable Appliance Mini for concerts and sports events. Multi-band GNSS locks to UTC outside; battery keeps you live through any power event.
04
Timebeat App for unified observability across on-prem facility and cloud workflows. Every clock, every domain, one pane of glass.
What to use
The TimeBeat products we most often recommend for deployments like yours.
Software & solutions
Talk to us
Our engineers have deployed timing infrastructure in every one of these sectors. Tell us what you’re building and we’ll tell you exactly how to wire it — no generic decks, no wasted calls.
Further reading
Pillar guide
What a grandmaster actually does, how to choose one, and the three things that separate a grandmaster you can trust.
Pillar guide
The time-error budget, G.8275.1 architecture, and what it takes to operate a fronthaul timing fabric.
Interactive tool
Model the regulatory and operational cost of a GNSS disruption for your industry and oscillator class.
Library
Guides, blogs and case studies tagged to broadcast & media.
An engineering-level tour of the 167 telemetry fields the Timebeat Agent emits per cycle to Sync Insight. Nine measurement domains, why each one matters for operations or compliance, and how to pick the handful of fields your Grafana dashboard actually needs day-to-day.
What a PTP grandmaster clock actually does, how to choose one, and what separates a grandmaster you can trust from one that quietly drifts. Written by TimeBeat's engineering team for network architects deploying IEEE 1588 in production.
Choosing the right PTP profile is the difference between a deployment that works on day one and one that needs three weeks of debugging. A practical guide to G.8275.1, G.8275.2, ST 2110 and the IEEE 1588 default profile — what each is for, what defaults matter, and how to mix them.
Every IP-based broadcast facility in the world depends on PTP for the frame-accurate synchronisation that ST 2110 demands. What ST 2059-2 actually specifies, where ST 2110 deployments fail in the field, and what good operations looks like in a modern IP studio.
