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AIMS chair Steven Reynolds looks back on an eventful 2022, and eyes a breakthrough 2023.
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The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) today announced that it will be highlighting the global Pro AV market’s increasing adoption of Internet Protocol Media Experience (IPMX™) — a set of open standards-based protocols designed to ensure interoperability for AV-over-IP systems — at ISE 2023, Jan. 31 to Feb. 3 in Barcelona, Spain. Visitors to AIMS’ Booth 5J550 will see IPMX-based hardware and software working together seamlessly in live demonstrations hosted by AIMS members and IPMX collaborators. Highlights will include HDCP running on IPMX, IPMX bridging to HDBaseT, and the capabilities and benefits of AMWA NMOS IS-04 and IS-05.
“2022 was a pivotal year for IPMX, thanks in large part to demos at InfoComm and other events that affirmed IPMX as the solution for overcoming the interoperability challenges in Pro AV environments,” said Samuel Recine, chair, Pro AV Working Group at AIMS. “As a result, we’ve begun to see market adoption of IPMX, which we expect to dramatically increase in 2023, with it serving as the foundation for bigger rollouts and high-profile projects. It all starts at ISE, where we’ll be kicking off the new year with our latest demos that highlight IPMX’s interoperability and high level of industry support. It’s going to be an amazing show, and we can’t wait to see you there.”
IPMX implements a standards-based approach based on SMPTE ST 2110, with features and capabilities that target the specific needs of the Pro AV industry. In addition to simplifying the implementation of SMPTE ST 2110 and ensuring interoperability for AV-over-IP systems, IPMX incorporates core features tailored to Pro AV installations. These features include fully interoperable and compliant HDCP, and highly scalable discovery and registration APIs, with the subframe latency and perfect quality that the Pro AV industry demands.
The goal of IPMX is to deliver the performance that the Pro AV world needs for any application of audio and video, including live production and presentation workflows, and to do it in the real world where training, equipment, and budgets are not always optimized for success.
Audio networks have played a major part in AV installations and productions since the days of analogue. Now, in the days of digital and IP, with multiple devices and locations involved, the stakes are much higher. Kevin Hilton looks at the current state of the technology and how interoperability is now a deciding factor.
Enter a world where video is just video and we pick the devices that suit our needs best. Making AV over IP software friendly.
The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) today announced that all members of the AIMS Board of Directors were re-elected earlier this month to serve once again in 2023.
Steve Reynolds of Imagine Communications will again serve as chair, and Terry Holton of Yamaha will continue as AIMS’ vice chair.
The AIMS Board of Directors for 2023 thus consists of AIMS Chairman of the Board Steve Reynolds, Vice Chair Terry Holton (Yamaha), Chief Financial Officer Andreas Hilmer (Lawo), Andrew Starks (Macnica), and Chuck Meyer (Grass Valley). With terms starting immediately, the board members, hand in hand with AIMS partner associations, will continue in their ongoing work toward fostering a standards-based approach to IP in professional media.
“Year after year, AIMS succeeds in bringing its diverse and growing membership together to extend the boundaries of IP adoption across broadcast and Pro AV,” said Reynolds. “The connections I have made with everyone on this board have proved just as steadfast as our mission. I am eager to work with my colleagues in the coming year and to continue our momentum in enabling better and broader access to more flexible IP-based media workflows.”
Further information about AIMS is available at www.aimsalliance.org.
The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) today announced that it has expanded its membership access to individuals such as consultants, engineers, and educators including sole employees or sole proprietors of a corporation and individuals who do not formally represent any company within the media industry. The new membership level is also open to students, researchers, and others actively associated with an institution of higher education.
“AIMS Individual Membership expands access to the work we’re doing to promote adoption of IP-based media workflows across broadcast and Pro AV and gives the alliance the benefit of more diverse participation and perspective,” said AIMS Board Chairman, Steve Reynolds. “We look forward to welcoming individual members to AIMS and to the valuable contributions these members will bring in helping to facilitate the shift toward standards-based IP media workflows.”
Annual dues for an AIMS Individual Membership are $175 U.S. and membership will be subject to approval by the AIMS Board of Directors. Further information and an application form are available at https://aimsalliance.org/join.
Along with the ever-increasing variety of devices added to networks, the complexity of commercial audio systems has skyrocketed. Audio and IT engineers need technologies that enable them to provide users with the most cutting-edge experiences while maintaining ease of use.