Gra Valley and Sony Collaborate to Advance the Cause of Common IP Standards for Broadcast

Grass Valley and Sony Collaborate to Advance the Cause of Common IP Standards for Broadcast

Grass Valley will develop Sony NMI Gateway for GV Node and Sony joins AIMS

MONTREAL, April 17, 2016 Grass Valley, a Belden Brand announces a major collaboration with Sony to develop industry-wide IP interoperability based on the two companies IP-based solutions and devices. As a result of the agreement, Sony will become a full member of the Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS).

In order to foster better interoperability across the industry and ensure a pathway for customers to a standards-based approach, Grass Valley plans to implement an IP-to-IP gateway card compatible with its innovative GV Node Real Time IP Processing and Edge Routing platform. This card will ensure compatibility between Sonys Networked Media Interface (NMI) and Low Latency Video Codec (LLVC) technologies and systems based on standards supported by the AIMS roadmap.

Sony is a technology leader in our industry and we are extremely pleased to work with them towards a standards-based approach to IP while improving interoperability between Grass Valley AIMS-based systems and Sony NMI-based systems, said Marco Lopez, president of Grass Valley. The industry has spoken. They want true ISO standards that will stand the test of time and ensure broad interoperability. Grass Valley is thrilled to work with Sony towards this goal.

Another result of this collaboration is Sonys participation in the AIMS initiative to promote the adoption of widely supported, open standards to enable IP-based interoperability and further industry migration to IP-based platforms. Grass Valley is a founding member of AIMS, which launched in December to promote and advocate for widely accepted, open IP standards that will lead to assured interoperability for devices based on industry standards such as SMPTE ST 2022-6 and TR-03 and TR-04, proposed by VSF and AES67.

With multiple IP formats being considered by broadcasters, ensuring interoperability is critical for IP solutions to become viable and deployable, said Hiroshi Kiriyama, senior general manager, Media Segment Solution Business Unit, Sony Corporation. We are proud to collaborate with Grass Valley and help lead the industry toward IP.

Sonys NMI, a key technology of Sonys IP Live Production System, packetizes, transmits and clean-switches HD and Ultra High-Definition (4K) video, audio and metadata in real time over standard network infrastructures.

Grass Valley provides broadcasters with the industrys widest portfolio of IP-enabled solutions under its Glass-to-Glass IP solution. Included in these solutions is the industrys first solution that provides the real IT data center benefits of fault tolerance, graceful scalability and flexibility with the addition of vertically-accurate switching, which is critical for live broadcast. Grass Valleys Broadcast Data Center includes the GV Node platform, GV Convergent SDI/IP control platform and easy integration with third-party commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) switches.

Grass Valley is in booth SL106 at NAB.

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