Riedel becomes latest addition to AVnu Alliance
Published: ASIA
WORLD: Riedel Communications has become a promoting member of the growing AVnu Alliance. The news follows the recent additions of TC Group and Bosch Security Systems to the Alliance’s ranks.
The AVnu Alliance is an industry forum seeking the advancement of the IEEE 802.1 Audio/Video Bridging (AVB) standard. Speaking of Riedel’s decision to join, Henning Kaltheuner, Riedel Communications product manager, explained that the manufacturer ‘has always understood our products as open platforms for integrating standard protocols such as AES, MADI, SIP and now, AVB.’
He added: ‘Especially MediorNet, as an open platform backbone technology with bandwidth capacities suitable for numerous 3G video signals, will help to expand AVB network installations beyond their current possibilities. We are looking forward to actively participating in the AVnu Alliance for providing an in-depth integration of AVB systems into our MediorNet backbone product.’
Lee Minich, AVnu Alliance marketing work group chairman and president of Lab X Technologies, was quick to welcome the new addition, stating that the group was ‘looking forward to further realising our shared vision for interoperable A/V networking via Audio Video Bridging technologies.’