The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) has announced its support for the industry’s shift to more inclusive language in standards and engineering documents.
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One reason broadcasters love AES67 is because it’s an open standard that enables low-latency, synchronized, uncompressed audio delivery over Ethernet/IP. A key challenge with AES67, however, is that it was written for local area networks (LANs), while broadcasters today increasingly need to deliver and receive audio over wide area networks (WANs).
BOTHELL, Wash. — Nov. 15, 2017 — The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) today announced two new associate members: Adder Technology and Cologne Broadcasting Center (CBC). By joining AIMS, the companies are supporting a standards-based approach to IP interoperability.
Adder designs and manufactures an advanced range of KVM switches, extenders, and IP solutions that enable the reliable control of local, remote, and global IT systems. Adder’s products cover a variety of applications, with its KVM-via-IP product range showing particular growth. Adder’s KVM-via-IP solutions enable the secure global access and control of IT systems.
CBC is home to all companies and networks of German media enterprise Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland. Since its establishment in 1994, CBC has become one of the leading broadcasting and television production companies in Germany. Numerous renowned TV stations and producers rely on the company’s know-how and state-of-the-art technology and value its wide array of individualized services — from ingest to studio production, postproduction to playout, SNG to teleport, digital archives to consulting. As one of the world’s leading media and broadcasting centers, CBC is on the forefront of deploying IP technology for video transport.
BOTHELL, Wash. — Nov. 16, 2016 — The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) today announced the launch of a Japan subgroup focused on conducting AIMS marketing activities in Japan. The subgroup will work to spread awareness of AIMS messages and objectives in a way that’s tailored to the Japanese market. To that end, the AIMS Japan subgroup will participate in Inter BEE 2016 taking place this week in Tokyo.
“Japan is home to key vendors and customers that contribute to the IP transition effort, so naturally AIMS wants to be as effective as we can in communicating with those important stakeholders,” said Michael Cronk, AIMS board chair. “We recognize that our marketing will be more effective in Japan if it is conducted in the Japanese language and targeted at events and activities that draw Japanese broadcasters. We have a strong message for a common set of IP interoperability standards and specifications. The formation of a Japan subgroup is one step towards ensuring that our message reaches a global audience.”
The AIMS Japan subgroup works with the AIMS marketing working group to ensure that its messages are aligned. Then the Japan subgroup determines the best ways to reach the Japanese broadcast market.
For example, the Japan subgroup will have a presence at Inter BEE 2016 in booth 8131, where AIMS members will conduct interviews with local publications, host webinars, and talk with customers and users who are interested in IP. Some AIMS member companies will hold interoperability demonstrations in their own booths.
Furthermore, AIMS Board Chairman Michael Cronk as well as Ted Miyazawa of Panasonic, chair of the AIMS Japan subgroup will participate in an Inter BEE panel discussion on the various proposed methods of live IP transmission. Cronk and Miyazawa will cover the purpose and goals of AIMS, its role in the standards adoption process, the AIMS roadmap, and interoperability. The panel session takes place on Friday Nov. 18.
AIMS members at Inter BEE 2016:
Advantech
AJA
Avid
Harmonic
Ikegami
Imagine Communications
intoPIX
Lawo
Matrox
NEC
Panasonic
Riedel
SAM
Sony
Toshiba
BOTHELL, WA, 29 September 2016 — During the months of July, August and into September, over 15 new member companies joined AIMS, including Canon, Ciema, Gefel, Harman, LiveU and tcp. Formed last December, to promote the adoption of an open-standards approach in transitioning to IP-based broadcast and video production workflows, the summer membership surge saw the alliance pass its 50th member milestone in just eight months.
The latest new member companies represent a wide diversity of global broadcast and related IT disciplines and activities; including imaging and information technologies, digital optical network transport solutions, live IP video solutions, broadcast production and facilities services, broadcast equipment manufacturing and professional audio systems design and manufacturing.
Canon is a multinational corporation and among the world’s largest and leading providers of professional imaging and information technologies. In a statement on becoming a member of the alliance the company said, “Canon has joined AIMS because Canon agrees completely with AIMS’s goal, to accelerate open technical standards for the purpose of transitioning from SDI to IP.”
Ciena Corporation, a US-based global supplier of IP networking solutions for the delivery and transport of voice, video and data services for broadband and telecommunications service providers, stated, “We are pleased to join the AIMS alliance and believe in its open-standards approach. With our expertise in optical, Ethernet and network automation, we specialize in unlocking the network’s potential to maximize its capabilities and the many ways the network contributes to business objectives during this period of transition to a virtualized media environment.”
Gefei Technology Co., Ltd, is located in the Zhongguancun high-tech technology hub in the Haidian District of Beijing, known as the “Silicon Valley of China”. The company has been manufacturing and marketing high-performance, cost-effective broadcast video equipment since 1995. Gefei specializes in research, production, and sales of audio & video processing products, including video over IP and IP multi-viewer products.
Harman Professional Solutions is the world’s largest professional audio, video, lighting and control products and systems company. Its systems solutions include enterprise automation and complete IT solutions for a broad range of applications. The company’s roster of internationally renowned brands encompass all aspects of broadcast, studio, live, cinema and installed sound. The company was among the earliest commercial adopters of audio networking technology, with products like BSS Soundweb and HiQnet.
LiveU is a US-based international leader in high-quality and reliable live video acquisition, management and distribution over IP. The company’s award-winning technology enables live, wireless video transmission from any location around the world with lightweight, easy-to-use equipment, as well as extensive cloud-based management and video distribution solutions.
tpc is the leading broadcast service provider in Switzerland. A broadcast production company and technology and production facilities provider and consultancy, tpc is responsible for production and technology for television, radio and multimedia for Swiss Radio and Television SRF, as well as providing production services, technology and consultancy to the independent sector.
On joining AIMS, the company issued a statement saying, “tpc, as the leading provider for broadcast production and beyond in Switzerland, has joined AIMS because we think that it is very important not only to have supplier companies but also users in the alliance. We have several projects in the pipeline over the next three years (including a large OB van, a master switching room, a playout center and postproduction facility) and we think that IP technology is the only future proof solution for these challenges.”
AIMS’ efforts are focused on promoting the adoption, standardization, development and refinement of open protocols for media over IP, with an initial emphasis on VSF TR-03 and TR-04, SMPTE 2022-6 and AES67. Broadcasters and other media companies are seeking to leverage IP to increase the flexibility of their networks, help streamline workflows and improve agility to better compete in a rapidly evolving ecosystem. Open standards are the key to protecting current investments and ensuring long-term interoperability.
The AIMS bylaws provide specific guidance to members and to the media industry via the AIMS Roadmap. The organization endorses an IP transition plan that includes support for SMPTE 2022-6, AES67, VSF recommendations TR-03 and TR-04, and AMWA NMOS IS-04.
A number of solutions are already on the market to help media companies begin the transition by introducing IP components to an SDI workflow. The transition represents a significant investment and will not happen overnight. An open standards approach allows media companies to implement the technology over time and transition at the pace that makes sense for their businesses.
Membership in AIMS is available to all individuals and companies that support open standards and share a commitment to the group’s founding principles.
The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) announced today that its roadmap for the adoption of IP protocols for media applications has received the official endorsement of the IABM. This endorsement is indicative of the growing momentum for open, standards-based protocols that will enable the media and entertainment industry’s migration to a common off-the-shelf (COTS)-based network infrastructure for production and playout workflows.
“With over 450 suppliers to the media and entertainment industry in its membership, the IABM’s endorsement of the AIMS roadmap is significant,” said Mike Cronk, chair of the AIMS board. “What we are seeing is a general alignment across the industry around one set of protocols for IP interoperability.”
Peter White, CEO of IABM added: “For a number of years now, the industry has needed a way forward to collaborate on IP interoperability. We are pleased to be standing alongside AIMS and wholeheartedly endorse the AIMS roadmap as the path that provides that way forward.”
Visitors to IBC2016 in Amsterdam will be able to see firsthand the results of collaboration between AIMS and the IABM at the IP Interoperability Zone in Hall 8 of the RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre. Featuring the interoperability technologies developed by the AES and the Joint Task Force on Networked Media (JT-NM), a joint effort of AMWA, EBU, SMPTE and VSF, the IBC IP Interoperability Zone will include real-world demonstrations of interoperation between many manufacturers’ IP system components, all based on the technologies of the AIMS roadmap.
AIMS provides specific guidance in its bylaws to its members and to the media industry via the AIMS roadmap. The organization endorses an IP transition plan that includes support for SMPTE 2022-6, AES67 and VSF recommendations TR-03 and TR-04.
A number of solutions are already on the market to help media companies begin the transition by introducing IP components to an SDI workflow. The transition represents a significant investment and will not happen overnight. An open-standards approach allows media companies to implement the technology over time and transition at the pace that makes sense for their businesses.
Membership in AIMS is available to all individuals and companies that support open standards and share a commitment to the group’s founding principles.
BOTHELL, WA, 25 July 2016 — AIMS has announced that Riedel Communications is the latest of the world’s leading media technology companies to join the alliance.
Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Wuppertal, Germany, Riedel Communications is renowned as a leading pioneer of real-time networks for audio video and communications applications; in particular, digital audio matrix systems and fiber-based real-time media network technology.
Their products and technologies, including MediorNet, the world’s first fiber-based video network for integrated signal transport, are in common use throughout the world in broadcast, pro-audio, events, sports, theatre and security applications. These include applications in the staging of major global sporting events and within international sports governing bodies.
Commenting for the company on joining the alliance, Lars Hoehmann, Product Manager MediorNet, said, “At Riedel, we have always been dedicated to facilitating reliable and versatile workflows that meet our customers’ individual requirements.
“By joining the Alliance for IP Media Solutions, we extend our product’s format support, providing our customers with more benefits of standards-based communications solutions while offering them plug-and-play simplicity. Our aim, as a solutions provider, is to secure their investments and to support them on their path towards IP-based media infrastructures.”
AIMS provides specific guidance in its bylaws to its members and to the media industry via the AIMS Roadmap. The organization endorses an IP transition plan that includes support for SMPTE 2022-6, AES67 and VSF recommendations TR-03 and TR-04.
A number of solutions are already on the market to help media companies begin the transition by introducing IP components to an SDI workflow. The transition represents a significant investment and will not happen overnight. An open standards approach allows media companies to implement the technology over time and transition at the pace that makes sense for their businesses.
Membership in AIMS is available to all individuals and companies that support open standards and share a commitment to the group’s founding principles.