3 Ways D2Switch Will Make Your Life Easier

The reason we’re so excited about the new D2Switch is that so many people have said, “You know, it would be really cool if you guys did this.”
Well, now we have! We’ve developed a solution that lets you switch your transport stream once it has left the station and gone “over the curve.” It’s as simple as punching a button on the switcher, and you can do it from anywhere. And you don’t even have to decode and re-encode your transport stream! It’s also a lot cheaper than solutions available on the market right now.
If you’re using SRT and the internet to send your broadcast signal to local stations across the country or around the globe, D2Switch is the perfect solution for fast, simple switching. You don’t need to spend a ton on an expensive splicer, breaking the signal out locally or at the transmitter. Instead, you can use D2Switch, which allows you to manage and automate switching through your D2Manage or D2Monitor interface.

D2 Switch in our browser makes for a powerful tool.

So far, three use cases that have had customers clamoring for D2Switch. The first is remote switching to insert a local station ID and maintain compliance. You can simply upload a 10- or 15-second clip into the local unit and use D2Switch to schedule and automate playout at the top of the hour every hour, or whenever local regulations governing your station require it. It helps to keep you legal and saves you money because you don’t have to break your signal into baseband and then take it back into the compressed domain just to get your local station ID to air.
Another great application for D2Switch is switching to local content as needed, whether on a scheduled basis or in the event of a compliance issue, for a particular market. If you’re channel sharing, you could use D2Switch to automatically move to nightly local news or evergreen content during prime time rather than network programming so that you don’t encroach on network content being broadcast in another market. You could also use D2Switch for manual remote switching if you discover that content currently being broadcast isn’t in compliance with local content standards.
Clearly, with the ability to switch easily between transports streams, you can also use D2Swtich to add redundancy to your broadcasts. From anywhere at any time, you can simply move to a backup source. Of course, we’ve integrated D2Switch into our D2Manage and D2Monitor interfaces, so it’s not up to you to do the switching. You can set up a primary and secondary stream, and the switch will happen automatically if a certain threshold is met in terms of packet loss or other issues that are compromising the signal.
Any one of these three use cases is pretty valuable for anyone using SRT to deliver their broadcasts, and D2Switch supports them all. If you’re interested in learning more, sign up for a quick demo. (It really is as easy as it sounds.) Customers have been asking for this capability for a reason. It’s a game-changer!