IEC 62379 is a

control engineering Control engineering or control systems engineering is an engineering discipline that deals with control systems, applying control theory to design equipment and systems with desired behaviors in control environments. The discipline of controls o ...

standard for the common control interface for networked digital audio and video products. IEC 62379 uses

Simple Network Management Protocol Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an Internet Standard protocol for collecting and organizing information about managed devices on IP networks and for modifying that information to change device behaviour. Devices that typically ...

to communicate control and monitoring information. It is a family of standards that specifies a control framework for networked audio and video equipment and is published by the

International Electrotechnical Commission The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC; in French: ''Commission électrotechnique internationale'') is an international standards organization that prepares and publishes international standards for all electrical, electronic and ...

. It has been designed to provide a means for entering a common set of management commands to control the transmission across the network as well as other functions within the interfaced equipment.

Organization

The parts within this standard include: * Part 1: General, * Part 2:

Audio Audio most commonly refers to sound, as it is transmitted in signal form. It may also refer to: Sound *Audio signal, an electrical representation of sound *Audio frequency, a frequency in the audio spectrum * Digital audio, representation of sou ...

, * Part 3:

Video Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) sy ...

, * Part 4:

Data In the pursuit of knowledge, data (; ) is a collection of discrete values that convey information, describing quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpret ...

, * Part 5: Transmission over networks, * Part 6: Packet transfer service, * Part 7: Measurement (for EBU ECN-IPM Group) Part one is common to all equipment that conforms to IEC 62379 and a preview of the published document can be downloaded from the IEC web store here, a section of the

web site. More information is available at the project group web site.

History

2 October 2008

Part 2, Audio has now been published and a preview can be downloaded from the IEC web store, a section the

web site.

31 August 2011

A first edition of Part 3, Video has been submitted to the IEC

technical committee for the commencement of the standardization process for this part. It contains the video MIB required by Part 7. Part 7, Measurement, has been submitted to the IEC

technical committee for the commencement of the standardization process for this part. This part specifies those aspects that are specific to the measurement requirements of the EBU ECN-IPM Group, a member of the Expert Communities Networks. An associated document EBU TECH 3345 has recently been published by the EBU

European Broadcasting Union The European Broadcasting Union (EBU; french: Union européenne de radio-télévision, links=no, UER) is an alliance of public service media organisations whose countries are within the European Broadcasting Area or who are members of the C ...

16 December 2011

Part 3 (Document 100/1896/NP) and Part 7 (Document 100/1897/NP) have been approved by IEC TC 100.

3 April 2014

Part 5.2, Transmission over Networks - Signalling, has now been published and can be downloaded from the IEC web store,

5 June 2015

IEC 62379-3:2015 Common control interface for networked digital audio and video products - Part 3: Video has now been published and can be downloaded from the IEC web store.

16 June 2015

IEC 62379-7:2015 Common control interface for networked digital audio and video products - Part 7: Measurements has now been published and can be downloaded from the IEC web store. IEC 62379-7:2015 is the standardised (and extended) version of EBU TECH 3345 - End-to-End IP Network Measurement - MIB & Parameters, which can be obtained from here: EBU TECH 3345
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References

External links

* * {{List of International Electrotechnical Commission standards Audio engineering Networking standards Broadcast engineering #62379 Control engineering Systems engineering