TSL Products’ Hummingbird control family is shown here as a way to treat NDI streams like “real” broadcast sources: discover endpoints, build routes, and drive operator workflows from the same control surface used for SDI routers and SMPTE ST 2110 systems. The key shift is adding NDI routing control into a broadcast-grade control layer, so tallies, salvos/presets, and structured operational logic can sit on top of an IP media fabric without forcing operators into a totally new interface. https://tslproducts.com/ndi
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A practical takeaway is how NDI’s value proposition changes once control is no longer the weak link. NDI can move high-quality video and audio over standard 1 GbE networks, which makes it attractive for cost and deployment density, but many broadcast teams historically ignored it because it didn’t “feel” like a routed, automated plant. By binding NDI into the same routing and monitoring paradigm as baseband, Hummingbird makes it easier to scale from a few sources to a large device estate without losing operational discipline.
The video also highlights the human-factors side of control: hard-button panels still matter in fast, mission-critical production because operators can work by touch while watching program or multiview. In this setup, those panels become NDI-aware, so button presses can trigger NDI routes, tally mapping, and preset management with the kind of immediacy expected from decades of SDI. NDI endpoints still handle encode/decode in their own hardware or software (CPU, FPGA, and similar), while Hummingbird focuses on orchestration, routing intent, and state.
Under the hood, this is enabled by newer NDI SDK capabilities for discovery/monitoring/control and receiver-oriented management, which is why the demo is positioned as a “now it’s possible” moment rather than a brand-new transport. Filmed during ISE 2026 in Barcelona, it lands in the wider AV-over-IP trend at the show, but from a broadcast angle: predictable routing, tally correctness, and operator speed are treated as first-class requirements rather than optional extras.
There’s also a deployment story: Hummingbird’s control logic is largely software-based, and the move toward a portable Linux platform opens up on-prem VM installs (for near-instant response) as well as data-center and cloud footprints where it makes sense. The point is less about running switching “in the cloud” and more about making control portable across Hyper-V/VMware-style environments, appliances, and hybrid sites, while keeping latency for control actions in the millisecond range when the media plane is local.
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