AMSTERDAM—TVU Networks and vivo have unveiled TVU Pocket, a phone-sized broadcast device that packs with a complete studio.

The device was launched during the just completed IBC 2026.

With TVU Pocket, there is no app to download and no rig to assemble. Simply turn it on and go live. Purpose-built for live production rather than everyday smartphone use, TVU Pocket combines vivo’s imaging hardware with TVU’s broadcast transmission and cloud production technology.

Features include:

• Connectivity no phone can match. Most phones hold two SIMs but use one at a time. TVU Pocket runs both at once: dual active SIMs on two independent 5G carrier networks as well as dual active Wi-Fi bands: four live data paths carrying the stream in parallel, not failing over one at a time.
• TVU One technology, pocket-sized. Fusing those four paths into one resilient stream is the most advanced and proven bonding technology: TVU’s patented ISX (Inverse StatMux Plus), the same transmission engine that powers TVU One.
• Deliberately versatile. TVU Pocket offers a broadcast camera, a bonded transmitter and a production toolkit in one. It captures 4K to 480p at 25–60fps with manual ISO, shutter speed and exposure and layers on split-screen output, background keying, URL/HTMLs/GPS overlays, one-tap social simulcast, video return, TVU Partyline intercom, TVU Anywhere remote control and Time Lock sync. External gear from Accsoon, DJI (including Osmo series) connects directly. Capture breaking news, stadium sports and creator content as a solo unit or one camera among many, it adapts to the job.
• Cloud-connected. Every feed enters TVU’s cloud production ecosystem, so one field unit can be scaled to power a full remote production workflow.
• Built on a custom-edition vivo flagship. Dual-5G aggregation is exclusive to this co-engineered edition, whose ZEISS primes (14mm, 35mm, 85mm) cover the establishing shot, the interview and the distant subject. Optional ZEISS teleconverters reach 200mm and 400mm (full-frame equivalent), and that reach and its stabilization carry into the live feed for concerts and stadium sport.

More information is available on the company’s website.

As a veteran of 25-plus IBC Shows over the past nearly 30 years, I can attest that navigating the annual gathering has its own particular quirks that distinguish it from the NAB Show, particularly the tone of the locale. Apart from the fact that Amsterdam is the “wet and humid” show and NAB is the “dry” show (but only when talking about the climate), IBC also represents a more relaxed tone that reflects the nature of the ancient city itself.

Nevertheless, most of the themes were similar, and before we set our sights on the next gathering (NAB Show New York), I wanted to share some of my thoughts around the central themes:

AI: IBC reported 41,225 attendees for the show, which ran Sept. 11-14 at the RAI Amsterdam, down 6% from 2025. Although consolidation, particularly among U.S. broadcasters, is often cited as one of the main reasons for the decline, I also think it represents a cooling off from the past three or four years, when interest was higher after COVID. (That’s not to mention that the number of attendees from the U.S. has declined since trade shows resumed in 2022.)

But I also think artificial intelligence is playing a role, as more processes become automated. I was reminded of this after hearing Grass Valley Chief Technology Officer Ian Fletcher’s rule that “complexity doesn’t go away, it just moves around.” As the process of media management, production and distribution becomes more automated and software-based, more people are moved out of the media production chain.

Seeing a software demo on the show floor can certainly have more impact than over Zoom, but is it still worth the cost of travel?

This is an ongoing issue that won’t be resolved by the oft-repeated trope that those same people who were doing rote tasks are simply being moved to other areas where they can “focus on other more important work.” Attrition is real and growing.

Collaboration: In our industry, companies have a long history of partnering with competitors, but that seems to be increasing—and this is more of a reflection of the increasing focus on software.

Nowhere was this better illustrated than by the growing influence and impact of MXL (Media eXchange Layer), a critical component of the EBU’s Dynamic Media Facility initiative. Tech demos showcasing partnerships between Grass Valley and Lawo, Matrox and EVS, as well as multivendor demonstrations at the Techex, Qvest and AWS stands, just to name a few, demonstrated how quickly MXL is moving beyond the proof-of-concept stage toward real-world deployment.

The EBU-led MXL initiative also received significant recognition at IBC, winning an IBC 2026 Innovation Award in the Content Creation category. The growing number of vendors incorporating MXL into commercial products and demonstrations suggests the technology is increasingly becoming part of the broader software-defined media ecosystem.

Cybersecurity: Alarmed over recent news of disruptions created by “rogue” AI agents, the security of media production systems was also top of mind for many attendees. As more media and media processing moves into the cloud, concern over potential vulnerabilities increases. This has prompted more production to become hybrid-based, with certain content and processes stored both in the cloud and on-prem.

It has also led to more interest in “MCP,” or Model Context Protocol, a framework that allows customers to establish guardrails to limit information accessible to AI agents.

Tariffs: The “T-word” was back, having been overshadowed by AI and the memory and chip shortages that were the talk of earlier shows. With many of the media tech industry’s largest companies based in Canada, President Donald Trump’s recent imposition of a 50% duty on targeted goods has forced some vendors to raise prices. And although some goods are exempt and vendors are attempting to absorb costs, the tariffs—along with the continued pressure on memory and chip availability worldwide—are cause for concern. However, the increased influence of software-defined production is helping to ameliorate the impact.

I’ll share more of my thoughts about my conversations with IBC exhibitors in the October issue of TV Tech.

ALBOURNE, England—Huw Mills has joined broadband infrastructure technology provider Technetix as senior vice president, global operations.

A 30-year tech industry veteran, Mills comes from Nidec Drives, where as senior vice president, global operations, he led a 1,000-member team across the Americas, Europe, India and Asia responsible for manufacturing, supply chain, quality, HSE and operational strategy.

“Huw has demonstrated throughout his career that he understands operations from the ground up and knows how to turn strategy into action,” said Techex President, CEO and Founder Paul Broadhurst, to whom Mills will report. “He brings extensive international experience, but also a very practical and people-focused approach to leadership.”

During his tenure with both Nidec and Emerson, Mills led large international operations and major manufacturing transformation projects in Europe, the Americas and Asia, Technetix said. He holds an MBA from Wrexham Glyndŵr University in Wales and qualifications in operations management and electrical and electronic engineering.

“I’m excited to be joining Technetix at an important stage in its growth,” Mills said. “I’m passionate about developing people, simplifying complexity and building operations that are resilient, competitive and ready for the future. Technetix has built a strong reputation for agility, innovation and being close to its customers, and I’m looking forward to working with the team globally to build on those strengths."

Technetix provides broadband infrastructure for wireline and wireless providers in 70 countries around the world. It has operations in the U.K., the Netherlands, the U.S, Canada, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Kosovo, China and Taiwan.

IRVINE, Calif.—Teradek has launched the Bolt 7 with a unified wireless video and data system, which the company is calling “the most significant update” to the product series since its introduction in 2013.

“The original Bolt replaced long SDI cable runs with a wireless zero-delay video system crews could trust,” said Colin McDonald, product manager at Teradek. “Bolt 7 takes the next step with an all-new 900MHz RF pipeline that works in tandem with your zero-delay video signal and acts as a wireless Ethernet or USB cable replacement, enabling wireless camera control, color management, telemetry and more without a Wi-Fi network.”

The Bolt 7 lineup includes 750, 1500 and MAX TX and RX models, each with an integrated 900MHz radio that runs in parallel with zero-delay 4K video signal, simplifying Ethernet workflows by eliminating the need for Wi-Fi or additional on-camera hardware. The new Bolt 7 Series features a 20% smaller TX as compared to the Bolt 6 XT models and a new color OLED display for faster pairing, control and diagnostics.

For cine workflows, Bolt 7 sends camera control and zero-delay video over a single connection. Bolt 7 TX connects directly to the camera, eliminating the need to set up or manage a dedicated Wi-Fi network on set. Because Bolt 7 uses dedicated RF pathways outside standard Wi-Fi frequencies, productions can reduce interference and simplify their wireless environment.

Camera control can be sent directly to a remote SmallHD monitor (with optional camera control license), CTRL.5, laptop or iPad using supported manufacturer or third-party camera control apps. Beyond camera control, Bolt 7’s dual video-and-data pipeline opens the door to wireless color management, audio communication and other workflows previously dependent on wired connections or additional hardware.

For live production, Bolt 7 unifies camera telemetry, video shading and zero-delay wireless video into one connection, reducing the complexity of multi-device setups. Crews can send zero-delay video to a switcher while delivering telemetry data to a Sony or Cyanview RCP in an OB truck or control room without managing separate systems.

Bolt 7 preserves the zero-delay performance required in professional live environments. Bolt 7 TX features a USB-C port that supports single-cable, zero-delay video and communication for iPhone camera workflows and DP-Alt Mode (DisplayPort Alternate Mode) for compatible cameras and monitors.

Bolt 7 introduces one new transmitter and two new receivers to the Bolt product family. Each comes with 900MHz radio, a color OLED display with a simplified interface, optional single-cable pairing and new battery plate that cradles for faster battery plate swaps. Automated RF management in PageOS and the Bolt App streamlines TX and RX pairing to ensure reliable performance even in the most challenging RF conditions.

Bolt 7 TX is available in 750, 1500 and MAX models. Boasting a 20% smaller footprint than the Bolt 6 XT, it is Teradek’s most compact 12G-SDI transmitter to date. Bolt 7 RX is available in 750 and 1500 models. Bolt 7 RX MAX enables encoding to an SD card. When paired with a Link AX or other Wi-Fi router via Ethernet, productions can receive zero-delay video while also sending a low-latency feed to iPads on set through the Teradek TV app.

Bolt 7 TX and RX units support up to 4K60 10-bit 4:2:2 HDR video over 12G-SDI and are fully compatible across Bolt 4K (5GHz) and Bolt 6 (5GHz and 6GHz) wireless ecosystems. The new 900MHz wireless data functionality is available exclusively between Bolt 7 units.

NEW YORK—Media software technology provider Dalet has promoted Brian Doheny to chief executive officer.

Doheny had joined the company in April as president and chief revenue officer, leading the company’s go-to-market and customer experience organizations. As CEO, he will lead Dalet’s global strategy and operations.

Dalet provides enterprise media asset management systems, newsroom computer systems and content supply-chain orchestration platforms to broadcasters, studios and enterprise content owners.

“Since joining Dalet, I have had the opportunity to spend time with our customers, partners, and teams around the world, and one thing is very clear: the pace of change in our industry is only accelerating, and Dalet is uniquely positioned to lead the way,” Doheny said. “Our opportunity is not simply to respond to that change. It is to anticipate it. We need to understand the challenges our customers face today, anticipate the ones they’ll face in the future, and how Dalet will help address them with speed and confidence.”

Doheny, a 30-year technology industry veteran, was chief revenue officer at risk management software provider Veriforce before joining Dalet. He also held senior leadership posts at TIBCO and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, among other companies.

“Brian has brought strong strategic focus and operational discipline to Dalet, while keeping customer value at the center of the company’s strategy,” said Will Brennan, managing partner of Dalet owner Long Path Partners. “His appointment as CEO reflects our confidence in his ability to lead Dalet through its next phase and ensure we continue to innovate around the evolving needs of our customers and the broader media industry.”

MUNICH– ARRI has unveiled SMPTE ST 2110 support for the ALEXA 35 Live multicam system, opening the system to fully IP-based broadcast studios, stadiums, high-end flypacks, and remote productions and will exhibit the development as well as its other enhancements for live entertainment workflows during IBC2026, Sept. 11-14, at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Center.

Delivered through Software Update Package (SUP) 1.5.0 for the Live Production System LPS-1, the new support brings ALEXA 35 Live directly into modern ST 2110 infrastructures through a permanent software license.

By combining ARRI’s cinematic image quality with open IP standards and proven live-production reliability, the update strengthens ALEXA 35 Live as a platform for the next generation of high-end media and entertainment workflows.

The ST 2110 implementation enables independent routing and control of uncompressed video, multichannel audio, and time-sensitive metadata over a 25GbE full-duplex connection. It can simultaneously transport two uncompressed UHD camera feeds alongside multiple HD or UHD return-video and return-AUX channels. Multiple HD streams also support HFR slow-motion acquisition over IP.

For resilient live production, the implementation includes seamless SMPTE ST 2022-7 redundancy. With two third-party SFP28 25GbE fiber-optic transceiver modules installed at the rear of the LPS-1, the unit maintains dual active network paths for automatic, glitch-free failover. Recommended transceiver modules are listed in the LPS-1 SUP 1.5.0 user manual.

Proven in demanding live-production environments

The LPS-1 ST 2110 architecture is designed for interoperability with broadcast ecosystems, including Riedel Communications infrastructure and SimplyLive production environments. Comprehensive AMWA NMOS support (IS-04, IS-05, IS-08, IS-09, BCP-003-01 and BCP-003-03) and Precision Time Protocol (PTP) enable automated discovery, connection management, audio-channel mapping, synchronization and secure operation across the media network.

Supported standards and protocols include:

• SMPTE ST 2110-10: System timing and synchronization (PTP)
• SMPTE ST 2110-20: Uncompressed active video transport
• SMPTE ST 2110-21: Traffic shaping and packet timing
• SMPTE ST 2110-30: PCM audio transport (AES67 compatible)
• SMPTE ST 2110-40: Ancillary data transport (captions, VITC, timecode)
• SMPTE ST 2022-7: Seamless protection switching (hitless redundancy)
• AMWA NMOS Suite: IS-04 discovery and registration, IS-05 connection management, IS-08 audio channel mapping, IS-09 system parameters, BCP-003-01 secure communication and BCP-003-03 authorization.

LPS-1 SUP 1.5.0 can be downloaded from the ARRI website. The LPS-1 ST 2110 license is available from the ARRI License Shop. It is priced at $8,735 (U.S.) or €7,500.

More information is available on the company’s website.

See ARRI at IBC2026 stand 10.A24.

HACKENSACK, NJ—LiveU, a global provider of live IP-video solutions, announced today that The Associated Press will deploy LiveU Ingest, LiveU Transceivers and LiveU IQ connectivity across its global operations—including the industry's largest deployment of LU900Q intelligent production units—bringing AP’s global LiveU hardware fleet to over 100 encoders.

The LU900Q uses new AI-driven connection management and eSIM technology to draw on mobile data networks around the globe. The technology will support a range of AP operations, from live feeds to editorial and multicamera workflows used by the global news organization’s production arm, AP 360.

"We’re excited about expanding our work with LiveU to equip our journalists with the technology to transmit live wherever the story takes them,” said Matthew Durbin, director of video technology and operations at AP. “Additionally, using LiveU Ingest with our MAM system gives us greater flexibility and speed, allowing us to move even faster and more efficiently from capturing content to distributing it to our customers around the world.”

Alongside the LU900Q deployment, AP has integrated LiveU Ingest with its cloud-based MAM system. Supporting up to 10 simultaneous live channels, the integration streamlines how content moves from the field into AP’s workflows, helping teams get to near-live and on-demand output more quickly.

AP is also transitioning its infrastructure to a SMPTE ST 2110 IP environment, deploying five LiveU servers alongside a dedicated SDI server. LiveU Transceivers enable AP to send and receive feeds with content providers as needed, giving teams flexible access to live sources across the network.

LiveU IQ's intelligent network switching continuously optimizes across available network operators in real time, helping maintain consistent transmission quality as connectivity conditions change.

MONTREAL—Grass Valley today announced a new multi-year framework agreement with RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana), Italy’s national public broadcaster, for the supply of LDX 150 camera systems. The agreement marks the start of one of the largest camera refresh programs in RAI's recent history, with the first camera systems already deployed to refresh RAI’s outside broadcast fleet, according to Grass.

Grass Valley already has a longstanding relationship with RAI, which will progressively deploy LDX 150 camera systems over the coming years. RAI says it selected the LDX 150 camera system for its unique native IP connectivity, renowned simple and intuitive control and operation and its pristine HDR image performance.

The LDX 150 provides a camera platform that supports RAI’s current production requirements while enabling the company’s continued transition toward more flexible IP-based workflows, they said.

“As we continue to modernize our production infrastructure, we were looking for a camera platform that would support both our current operational needs and our future ambitions,” said Riccardo Rombaldoni, Dirigente Responsabile – Ingegneria di Realizzazione e Gestione Contenuti at RAI. “The LDX 150 combines excellent image quality with native IP connectivity, HDR acquisition and intuitive operation, giving our production teams the flexibility to support a wide variety of production environments while building on the trusted relationship we have established with Grass Valley over many years.”

The first phase of the deployment has been completed, with the initial LDX 150 camera systems fully operational within RAI’s outside broadcast fleet. Grass Valley’s long-time partner and systems integrator Video Progetti led the overall system integration, while Domo supported the project as the integration partner for the wireless camera components of the deployment.

MONTREAL and NEW YORK—Haivision has announced that it is integrating Chyron LIVE into its live video contribution ecosystem, simplifying camera-to-cloud live production. Chyron LIVE is Chyron’s cloud-native platform for vision mixing, broadcast-grade graphics, data display, remote commentary, and illustrated replay. The joint solution will be showcased at IBC2026.

The combined solution will allow broadcasters to capture, transport, and contribute high-quality live video from virtually any location into Chyron LIVE, streamlining live production workflows while delivering the performance, reliability, and ease of use required for professional broadcasting.

Built for sports, news, and live event productions, the integrated workflow combines Haivision's live video contribution products, including Haivision mobile video transmitters (Falkon, Pro, and Air) and Makito video encoders and decoders, with Chyron LIVE, powered by Chyron’s PRIME Platform which is developed natively on AWS. The combined solution enables broadcasters to reliably contribute live video over cellular networks, the internet, satellite, and IP networks directly into cloud-based production workflows, according to the companies.

“Broadcasters are increasingly looking for flexible, cloud-native production workflows that simplify live content acquisition,” said Nikole McStanley, senior vice president of product, Chyron. “Together with Haivision, we're enabling customers to bring high-quality live video into Chyron LIVE more efficiently, giving production teams greater flexibility to produce live content from anywhere with ease.”

Visitors to IBC2026 can see the integrated workflow firsthand at Haivision (2.B32) and Chyron (7.A23) .

KINGS PARK, NY—Multidyne Video & Fiber Optic Systems will introduce SilverBack-IP, the newest member of its SilverBack Series of fiber camera adapters, at the 2026 IBC Show, Sept. 11-14 at the RAI Amsterdam. SilverBack-IP brings native SMPTE ST 2110 connectivity to Multidyne’s fiber camera platform, providing a direct path for integrating digital cinema cameras into modern IP production environments, the company said.

Multidyne developed the SilverBack Series to help content producers bring the cinematic quality of digital cinema cameras into live multi-camera production. The lightweight, vendor-agnostic adapters convert digital cinema cameras for SMPTE studio-camera workflows and have been deployed across live sports, concerts, television productions, houses of worship and other professional production environments.

Purpose-built for the industry’s transition from SDI, SilverBack-IP retains the series’s mobility, camera flexibility and familiar operational benefits while moving the transport layer to IP. The new design enables production teams to connect their preferred cinema cameras directly to SMPTE ST 2110 networks while maintaining the camera-centric workflows that have made SilverBack a fixture in live cinematic production.

SilverBack-IP features dual 25GbE network interfaces and supports SMPTE ST 2022-7 hitless protection across the two fibers within SMPTE hybrid cable, providing redundant network paths for demanding live production environments. Two 12G-SDI and two 3G-SDI connections accommodate a broad range of HD and UHD workflows, with video, audio, intercom and data encapsulated and de-encapsulated as standardized IP streams.

The IP architecture removes many of the point-to-point limitations associated with traditional camera chains. Rather than requiring signals such as intercom, timing and video to be discretely connected and distributed through dedicated hardware, SilverBack-IP makes those signals available within the ST 2110 network infrastructure. Integrated intercom, for example, can operate as an ST 2110-30 audio essence flow, allowing production teams to source and associate intercom audio through the network instead of a dedicated point-to-point connection.

The dual 12G-SDI capability also positions SilverBack-IP for emerging immersive production requirements. Stereoscopic cameras that generate discrete right- and left-eye UHD signals can deliver two simultaneous 12G-SDI feeds into the adapter, allowing both signals to be transported into the ST 2110 environment. The architecture extends SilverBack’s vendor-agnostic philosophy to new generations of digital cinema and immersive cameras, allowing producers to select the most suitable cameras.

SilverBack-IP’s studio camera-style physical design puts controls, menu access and system status directly in front of the camera operator. Full-size professional connectors complement the operator-centric interface, marking a departure from the traditional ENG-style cameraback configuration of earlier SilverBack systems. The result is a familiar studio-camera experience while retaining the flexibility of adapting a digital cinema camera for live production.

SilverBack-IP supports both 12V and 24V camera systems when paired with appropriate Multidyne power extension solutions, accommodating traditional cinema cameras as well as newer high-power camera platforms, the company said. The adapter can operate independently of a camera as a standalone fiber gateway, allowing production teams to place the unit remotely and transport video, intercom and other signals between SDI endpoints and IP networks.

Multidyne will be in Stand 11.C12.

DENVER—Comcast Technology Solutions today announced a new multi-year agreement with A+E Global Media to provide premium content distribution services using Comcast MediaExpress, part of the Comcast Media360 portfolio.

Under the agreement, Comcast Technology Solutions will provide centralized video-on-demand (VOD) management and distribution for content from A+E Global Media brands (A&E, History, Lifetime, and others). Using Comcast MediaExpress, A+E Global Media will leverage a single point of ingest for premium video titles and associated metadata to streamline content preparation, packaging, and delivery. The 24/7 managed service is designed to simplify VOD distribution for improved operational efficiency, CTS said.

"A+E Global Media is committed to delivering exceptional storytelling to audiences wherever they are, while embracing technology to help accomplish that core objective,” said Prakash Patel, Senior Vice President of Technology Strategy and Transformation at A+E Global Media. "Comcast MediaExpress gives us an efficient and scalable approach to managing content distribution, helping simplify workflows to ensure our programming reaches distribution partners quickly and reliably."

Comcast Media360 is a premium managed service for the media and entertainment industry, offering an integrated suite of technologies for comprehensive global video delivery, distribution, and monetization across linear and on-demand platforms.

WOODSTOCK, Ill.—Other World Computing will unveil two new Thunderbolt 5 solutions at the 2026 IBC Show, Sept. 11-14 at the RAI Amsterdam. The new additions include OWC Thunderbolt 5 Dock with Dual HDMI, and the Thunderbolt 5 (USB-C) Cable now available in a 1.5-meter length.

With the OWC Thunderbolt 5 Dock with Dual HDMI one connection provides the displays, storage performance, networking, power, and connectivity of an enterprise-class desktop workstation, without the need for a pile of adapters and workarounds. Its key features include:

• Two HDMI 2.1 ports built right in. Any monitor that has HDMI plugs directly into the dock with zero compatibility guesswork;
• Single Thunderbolt 5 connection delivers dual displays, wired networking, storage, card readers, and full laptop charging simultaneously;
• 140W Power Delivery: Keeps MacBook Pros and high-performance Windows laptops fully charged at peak performance while running the entire connected setup;
• Front USB-C port delivers up to 30W of charging;
• Downstream Thunderbolt 5 port runs external SSDs and RAID arrays at full rated speed;
• 2.5GbE delivers the throughput needed for NAS workflows, large file transfers, and secure corporate environments;
• UHS-II SD and microSD slots let photographers and video editors offload footage without a separate card reader;
• Supports dual HDMI displays at up to 4K 240Hz or dual 8K 60Hz with DSC on Thunderbolt 5 hosts. A third display is possible via Thunderbolt or USB-C;
• Compatible with Thunderbolt 5, Thunderbolt 4, USB4, USB-C, and Thunderbolt 3 (Mac) hosts across Mac and Windows environments;
• OWC Innergize Enabled: A complete health, performance, and field update management app when using OWC Atlas SD memory cards with the dock's SD memory card reader;
• Supports both horizontal and vertical desk placement, and
• OWC Dock Ejector unmounts every connected drive in a single click. On macOS, an included driver also enables Apple Super Drive support through the dock.

“Thunderbolt 5 gives you tremendous performance and capability. The real question is what you do with it,” said Larry O’Connor, Founder and CEO, OWC. “With the OWC Thunderbolt 5 Dock with Dual HDMI your laptop is no longer the compromise. One connection gives you the displays, storage performance, networking, power, and connectivity of a serious desktop workstation – without the pile of adapters and workarounds. We didn’t set out to build another Thunderbolt 5 dock. We set out to build the one professionals will measure the others against.”

O’Connor added, “This addition to our dock line-up is a result of customer feedback. Our goal is to continue to ensure our customers always have a choice when it comes to picking the solution(s) that best meet their individual desktop/workflow requirements."

Key features for OWC Thunderbolt 5 (USB-C) Cables, now available in a 1.5-meter length include:

• Since it's 100% USB-C compatible, it connects to current, future as well as older Macs, PCs, iPads, Chromebooks, Surface, and other devices with a Thunderbolt 5, Thunderbolt 4, Thunderbolt 3, USB4, or USB-C port;
• Up to 80Gbps of bidirectional data speed and up to 120Gbps for higher display bandwidth needs;
• Connects to millions of docks, displays, eGPUs, PCIe expansion, external SSDs, RAID storage, and accessories;
• Lab-certified to safely deliver up to 240W to charge the most power-hungry notebook computer;
• Connects to the latest and future Thunderbolt, USB-C, and DisplayPort displays for incredible 4K, 5K, 6K, and up to three 8K displays, and
• Three-Year OWC Limited Warranty.

The OWC Thunderbolt 5 Dock with Dual HDMI will be generally available (GA) in November and priced at $349.99. The Thunderbolt 5 (USB-C) Cable in a 1.5-meter length availability is planned for the middle of October and will be priced at $58.99.

OWC will demo the new additions at Stand 7.A60 during IBC 2026. For more information, visit www.owc.com

AMSTERDAM—swXtch.io, a global provider of software-defined networking solutions for media, has launched an AI-based broadcast engineer platform which it says is designed to remove the infrastructure and networking complexity behind live media workflows.

abbe removes the requirement for operators to configure networks, cloud infrastructure, compute resources, and AI software in media routing and interface workflows, according to the company.

abbe takes a conversational description of the desired outcome and deploys the necessary infrastructure, networking, and software required to make the workflow run and does so in the most economical way while meeting performance requirements.

abbe is a cloud-agnostic orchestration layer, able to deploy live media and AI workflows across any provider including Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Workloads are located based on user requirements including optimizations for cost and latency, without forcing the operator to design a different solution for each cloud environment.

The initial capabilities being shown at IBC focus on two areas where live media teams face significant operational complexity: managing live media transport and deploying AI into production workflows.

For live media networking, abbe provides SRT management and control, enabling operators to ingest, monitor and distribute streams globally without manually configuring the underlying infrastructure. abbe is designed to automate decisions around where and how live media moves, helping operators maintain reliable, high-quality feeds while reducing the manual intervention traditionally required to respond to changing network conditions.

For AI workflows abbe will demonstrate a live audio processing workflow using NVIDIA models and other select partners. An operator can describe the desired outcome and abbe stands up the cloud infrastructure, networking, security, and software required for the audio processing use case.

The future of abbe is much broader than the initial iteration being shown at IBC, swXtch.io said.

abbe treats AI models as interchangeable components within a live workflow. Operators can select and test different models, chain models together, compare performance, and swap from one model to another easily and quickly. abbe separates what an operator wants to accomplish from the increasingly complex infrastructure, networking, and knowledge required to accomplish it.

NVIDIA models provide the foundation for abbe's initial real-time AI capabilities and swXtch.io is already expanding abbe's support across additional NVIDIA AI models and capabilities over time.

“The AI models are becoming incredibly capable but putting them into a live production still requires expertise across networking, cloud infrastructure, and AI software,” said Brent Yates, CEO of. “abbe is designed to remove that complexity. You describe what you want to accomplish, and abbe stands up everything needed to make it work. And because workflows are not locked to one model, you can easily optimize it as the technology changes. abbe simplifies AI for live media.”

STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Net Insight has introduced Nimbra 1020G, a compact, ultra-dense addition to the Nimbra Live portfolio that combines IP media processing, switching and controlled interconnection in a modular 1U platform.

The company will demonstrate Nimbra 1020G and Open Live Media at IBC2026, Booth 1.B47, RAI Amsterdam, September 11–14.

Net insight’s Nimbra 1020G combines open standards and APIs with Net Insight’s Trust Boundary technology, enabling broadcasters, production companies and media service providers to extend Broadcast IP without overbuilding infrastructure.

As live production becomes more distributed across venues, partners, facilities and cloud environments, IP workflows increasingly need to extend beyond the media core without bringing core-scale footprint, power and cost with them.

“The value of Trust Boundary is that organizations can exchange live media without sharing network design, investing in complex integrations or adding conversion,” said Larissa Görner-Meeus, CPO of Net Insight. “With Nimbra 1020G, that controlled handoff can now be placed wherever services enter or leave the network.”

Nimbra 1020G addresses this need in a compact 1U modular platform, supporting up to 64 channels of 2110 JPEG XS compression and 600 Gbps of lossless Ethernet switching. This increases service density while reducing rack space, power, external switching requirements and cost per live service. Built around the Nimbra Media Pro App architecture, Nimbra 1020G can adapt across contribution, remote production, facility connectivity, partner interconnect and distribution access.

A key differentiator of Nimbra 1020G is the always-enabled SMPTE RP 2129 Trust Boundary. It creates a secure demarcation between independently operated media networks, allowing organizations to exchange live media services while retaining full control of their own addressing, multicast architecture, security policies and orchestration. To maintain service resilience and interoperability, full media payload and timing is always preserved through each Trust Boundary.

With demarcation from 1G to 100G Ethernet, Trust Boundary combines per-service admission, address adaptation, strict QoS control and real-time flow monitoring. One application handles the full range of media flows, from compressed transport streams to uncompressed 2110 UHD essences. Up to 128 lossless Ethernet switch instances provide guaranteed QoS, fine-grained traffic isolation and workflow aggregation for any broadcaster or service provider workflow.

Nimbra Live Intelligence adds service-level visibility, control and assurance, giving operators real-time insight as live services are added, rerouted or changed. This enables more dynamic, software-driven operations while maintaining operational control.

For existing Nimbra operators, compatibility with Nimbra 1000 modular hardware and the Nimbra Media Pro App family provides a direct expansion path, allowing customers to extend on the infrastructure rather than introduce a separate platform.

Nimbra 1020G adds a new scale point to Nimbra Live, complementing Nimbra 520 for HEVC contribution and Nimbra 1060 for high-capacity media processing. Together with Nimbra Edge and Nimbra Live Intelligence, it extends Net Insight’s Open Live Media architecture across contribution, access, aggregation, controlled interconnect, core and distribution.

LIEGE, Belgium and MONTREAL—EVS and Matrox Video are combining their respective platforms to accelerate the broadcast industry's transition to software-defined live production. Aligned with the European Broadcasting Union's Dynamic Media Facility (DMF) initiative, the collaboration pairs EVS's orchestration and workflow management capabilities with Matrox ORIGIN’s software-defined media transport and processing to help broadcasters build more flexible, resource-driven production environments.

DMF architectures enable production resources to be provisioned and assigned according to operational needs rather than permanently tied to individual workflows or dedicated hardware.

Matrox ORIGIN gives EVS a software-defined media processing foundation designed to run broadcast workloads on standard compute infrastructure, while supporting open, interoperable approaches including the EBU’s Media eXchange Layer (MXL) and IPMX. Its scalable architecture allows media processing resources to be deployed and allocated dynamically, aligning closely with the resource-driven principles of the DMF. As an OEM building on Matrox ORIGIN, EVS can focus its engineering investment on the orchestration, automation, and operational layers where it delivers differentiated value to broadcasters.

EVS provides the orchestration and operational layer that enables broadcasters to align infrastructure resources with evolving production requirements. Through Production Resource Manager (PRM), a key component of EVS's Flexible Control Room solution, processing resources can be dynamically deployed, configured, and reconfigured based on the specific needs of each production. This allows broadcasters to maximize infrastructure utilization, increase operational agility, and reduce total cost of ownership, according to the company.

Complementing this approach, EVS’s Tactiq UI provides a modern, workflow-driven user experience that abstracts the complexity of the underlying technology stack, allowing operators to focus on producing content rather than managing infrastructure. In parallel, Cerebrum delivers the same simplification for engineering and operations teams, providing a unified control layer across SDI, IP, on-premises, and cloud environments.

Today, EVS' Cerebrum broadcast control and orchestration platform integrates with Matrox Video's Avio 2 IP KVM extenders and ConvertIP baseband to IP converters and encoders/decoders, enabling centralized control and routing across IP-based production environments.

The companies said they will continue collaborating on technologies that advance the industry's transition "toward more dynamic, scalable, and software-defined production infrastructure."

MILAN, Italy—Brightcove has launched Brightcove Gen 2, the next generation of its platform designed to give video teams more capacity to create, distribute, engage and monetize content at scale.

The update includes more than 22 new enhancements and 30+ platform advancements and is designed to allow media companies to reach more audiences, increase engagement and unlock more revenue; automate work, streamline workflows and reduce complexity and combine a more powerful, reliable and secure platform with faster innovation across the entire video workflow, Brightcove said.

These capabilities build on a year’s worth of new solutions and features across the platform. Recent additions include the redesigned Prism user interface, expanded monetization tools, new localization and accessibility capabilities, Next-Gen Live, and AI-powered features that help automate workflows and reduce manual work.

Among the features completely new to Gen 2 is the AI Agentic Hub, which will be unveiled at IBC 2026, Sept. 11-14 at the RAI Amsterdam. The Hub enables teams to move beyond step-by-step tasks by allowing users to define an outcome and have AI agents coordinate the actions and workflows needed to achieve it, according to the company.

AI agents can work across Brightcove’s functionality, meaning they can analyze video data, generate insights, and take action on those insights across the platform—from managing content and metadata to optimizing workflows and configuring experiences. Users interact with the agents through a chat-based interface, making it possible to automate complex, cross-platform workflows and move from insight to action faster.

The AI Agentic Hub is already available to customers in production.

Brightcove will be in Stand 5.A90 at the RAI Amsterdam.

MONTREAL—Haivision announced today that its Makito ONE video transport platform now supports Bonded 5G support via the CellLink 5G external modem and antenna array.

Commonly used as a low latency contribution encoder over Ethernet-connected networks, Haivision says its Makito ONE is now the first device of its kind to also leverage cellular connectivity for contribution, all from a single hardware blade.

Makito ONE is Haivision’s low latency, dual channel multi‑codec encoder/decoder designed for pristine 4K, HD, and high dynamic range (HDR) broadcast contribution. Engineered for remote production workflows that demand high quality video and low latency, the Makito ONE supports HEVC, H.264, and JPEG XS workflows and provides native SRT protocol support for secure and reliable streaming over wired connections.

The Haivision CellLink 5G modem and antenna array features three 5G modems and dual antennas for MIMO 2x2 performance. Encased in a weather‑resistant enclosure with magnetic pad and thread mounts, CellLink 5G can be easily installed on vehicles, poles, or buildings and easily connects to Makito ONE via standard Ethernet.

With CellLink 5G, Makito ONE can contribute high-quality video over bonded networks including Ethernet and multiple cellular modems leveraging SST protocol, enabling broadcasters to build robust contribution workflows with greater throughput and network load balancing across wired and wireless network paths to maximize live video quality for any production, Haivisio said.

For instance, Makito ONE can use public internet as the priority network (with Ethernet), but in the event of internet congestion, can leverage cellular networks as backup until the priority network performance returns to normal. This can ensure that there is no disruption in video quality.

In addition to its integration with the Makito ONE, the CellLink 5G is also compatible with the rest of Haivision’s mobile video transmitters including Falkon, Haivision Pro, and Haivision Air transmitters, making resilient cellular bonding a core connectivity option across Haivision’s entire live video ecosystem.

Haivision will showcase Makito ONE support for Stand 2.B32 during the 2026 IBC Show, Sept. 11-14 at the RAI Amsterdam.

BERKELEY, Calif.—Eluvio today announced its plans for the 2026 IBC Show, Sept. 11-14 at the RAI Amsterdam, focusing on new advanced features in its Global Broadcast Fabric, the latest generation of the Content Fabric protocol and global infrastructure, as well as new advances in its Universal & Dynamic Video Intelligence architecture and Eluvio Video Intelligence Editor (EVIE)

At IBC, Eluvio will demonstrate the Global Broadcast Fabric’s live broadcast distribution architecture—a decentralized, zero-copy system that replaces satellite distribution, fiber point-to-point connections, and ground-to-cloud multi-point egress for live broadcast feed distribution, extended with new live-operations and monetization capabilities. One decentralized Content Fabric distribution simultaneously serves every downstream taker just-in-time — B2B broadcast affiliates and D2C consumer endpoints — from a single ingest workflow without duplication, according to the company.

Eluvio says Content Fabric “is powering thousands of D2C live games and streaming events and hosts hundreds of thousands of live, archive, and library titles for premium brands and creators — with 10x cost savings over legacy CDN and media cloud infrastructure at scale.

Improvements include :

• 8x increase in live stream cross-variant serving; <=30ms segment delivery latency; up to 4x scale of DRM encryption variants; zero-impact global maintenance; and instant-on HFR streaming.
• Stereoscopic HFR 4K (SBS and MV-HEVC), Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, HDR/HDR10+, full Widevine parameterization, AV1 (upcoming), optimized asset structure for hundreds of language and subtitle tracks.
• Powered by new Media Wallet v3 and Creator Studio CMS, allowing Eluvio to provide best-in-class TV, browser, and mobile native white label D2C OTT properties with advanced UX branding, interactive experiences, and configurable live, VOD and clip based content presentation and management.
• The ability to configure and deploy unlimited D2C OTT streaming and archive monetization apps for TV/mobile/browser, B2B portals, and Pocket TV microsites with fast multi-view, integrated DVR, automatic live and VoD content slating, and up-next autoplay. New multi-view sidebar, “In This Video” AI data panel, and expanded entertainment and sports layout options provide a flexible and outstanding UX experience for fans with no code deployment. Fully integrated with the Eluvio Video Intelligence Editor (EVIE), browse and publish zero-copy EVIE clips and compositions.
• Full SVOD/TVOD (rental and ownership) entitlements, match-based live entitlements, seamless JWT/SSO, and fully integrated Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Stripe in a single checkout flow. CableLabs-compliant Title Metadata API with territory-based offers and delta-only global updates.
• A fully white-labeled microsite for live and episodic content sales with zero friction: no login required, single-click Apple Pay and Google Pay, and magic links for return access. No PII collected. Instantly embeddable as a URL in any social post, paid ad, or CRM email. Deployed by a Tier 1 US broadcast network in 2026.
• Real-time analytics spanning B2B SRT/TS and D2C HTTP streams; global receiver map with per-receiver performance stats; expanded audience metrics; client-side QoS stats; and sales transaction reporting by currency, product, and country.

Eluvio will also showcase Eluvio AI and Eluvio AI and the Eluvio Video Intelligence Editor (EVIE), a new architecture for universal dynamic video intelligence.

According to the company, Eluvio AI is "the first commercially available inline, frame-accurate, multimodal AI built natively into a media platform — running inference on live and VOD content at frame and segment level with zero file copies, zero file movement, and zero transcoding, across open-source, custom, and third-party models."

The Eluvio Video Intelligence Editor (EVIE) provides the media-facing application layer for this intelligence, allowing users to inspect, search, validate, edit, and act upon AI data while remaining synchronized to the underlying video. The new EVIE Titles & Events experience brings the complete AI stack together around a title—such as a film or television program—or an event, such as a live sports match.

“Eluvio AI is fundamentally different from point AI solutions because the intelligence runs inline, with frame accuracy, across live and archival content — without the cost and delay of copying and re-transcoding media before it can be processed and ensembling the power of individual models with frame-accuracy,” said Michelle Munson, CEO and co-founder of Eluvio. “The AI is built directly into the video pipeline of the Content Fabric, rather than added afterward as a separate cloud workflow.

“Everything from identifying action, players, celebrities, speakers, or brands to turning that intelligence into highlights, vertical videos, compliance reels, or personalized content happens in place against the source media and has no limits on size, duration, or ensemble scale,” Munson added. “The result is dramatically greater efficiency and speed, while making AI intelligence immediately actionable for personalization and monetization. At IBC, we’re excited to show broadcasters and rights holders these capabilities running across both live sports and premium content.”

Eluvio will be in Stand 8.MS5 at the show. For more details, visit https://ibc.eluv.io.

BERLIN—TiVo today unveiled significant enhancements to its TiVo OS media platform, expanding generative AI-powered content discovery experiences, more free streaming content, enhanced sports experiences, interactive commerce capabilities and platform optimizations that the company says could reduce costs for smart TV manufacturers.

TiVo, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Xperi, also announced the appointment of Tal Bone as senior vice president and general manager of TiVo OS. Bone, who brings more than a decade of experience building and scaling global smart TV and entertainment platforms most recently served as vice president of global product and chief technology officer at VIDAA, Hisense's smart TV operating system.

The company made its announcements in advance of the the IFA 2026 tech show, which takes place Sept. 4-8 in Berlin.

Expanded TiVo Channels Offering
TiVo announced that it has added hundreds of new global and local FAST channels to its TiVO Channels platform and added a new mini guide for faster channel navigation and personalized content carousels that offer relevant programming based on viewers’ preferences.

TiVo has also enhanced sports discovery across search, recommendations and the home screen on its OS, allowing viewers to more easily discover, follow, and access live games and sporting events through improved surfacing of sports content and real-time event promotion directly within the TiVo OS experience.

And in a nod to expanding its presence overseas, particularly in Europe, TiVo also announced that its OS now supports DVB-I, a protocol that adds IP capability to the DVB standard. DVB-I enables broadcasters to deliver television content over the internet while simplifying access for consumers. The enhancement allows viewers to discover and watch local broadcast channels without requiring a traditional aerial or antenna.

TiVo has also significantly reduced the TiVo OS memory footprint, enabling deployment on devices with as little as 1 GB RAM and 4 GB eMMC. These improvements are designed to help reduce bill-of-material costs, allow for more efficient hardware configurations, and expand deployment opportunities across a wider range of smart TVs and connected entertainment devices, the company said.

AI Enhancements
TiVo is also collaborating with IRCODE in a partnership that now combines AI and computer vision technologies to recognize on-screen content and enable immediate viewer interaction on its OS, unlocking “new opportunities for commerce, content discovery, advertising and companion experiences, allowing consumers to engage with content in entirely new ways while creating new monetization opportunities for partners,” according to the company.

TiVo said it plans to implement the soon-to-be released AI-powered discovery product, Agent TiVo, which is designed to enable consumers to navigate entertainment through natural conversation and help them discover content more intuitively and efficiently. Rather than relying on traditional keyword searches, viewers will be able to describe what they're looking for and receive personalized recommendations and guidance, creating a richer and more engaging content discovery experience, the company said.

LEXINGTON, Mass.—Signiant will showcase the latest evolution of the Signiant Platform at the 2026 IBC Show, Sept. 11-14 at the RAI Amsterdam.

Topping the list is Media Shuttle's new Intelligent Transport, which allows customers to take greater advantage of all their high-bandwidth infrastructure with multi-threaded and multi-gigabit transfers that adapt to live network conditions.

Also new is Signiant Pulse, a new line of secure connected services designed to help media organizations work with content where it sits.

Signiant Pulse includes:

• Pulse Essentials: Unified content visibility, access, and action across every connected storage location, included free with the Signiant Platform
• Pulse Review & Approve: Collaborative, frame-accurate content review without needing to upload or download content
• Pulse Plus: AI-generated descriptions, tags and transcripts using the customer's chosen AI provider rather than a vendor-hosted model
• Pulse AI Studio: Multi-step AI agent workflows across enriched content libraries, with MCP-governed access and usage-based cost controls
• Signiant MCP Server: Connects MCP-capable AI clients, including ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, enabling agents to search, validate and route content while operating within existing permissions and audit controls that govern transfers

Signiant will also showcase Signiant Verify, which enables media to be checked against delivery specifications before it is transferred. Content that fails validation can be held and suppliers will be notified before submission, rather than after delivery as well as Verify aiQC, which extend Verify’s capability with deeper inspection of the picture and sound.

Signiant will be in Stand 5.C74.

BRUSSELS, Belgium—Mediagenix, a provider of smart content solutions “Mediagenix Curation,” a new solution for managing content presentation and discovery across streaming services.

The announcement comes a year after the company announced the integration of Spideo’s humanized content recommendations, personalized discovery, and catalog exploration capabilities into its flagship Title Management solution. Mediagenix acquired Spideo in 2024.

The company says Mediagenix Curation solves the complexities of delivering personalized experiences at scale by combining editorial control with automation and personalization “to execute content presentation strategies at scale.”

Integrated across the Mediagenix ecosystem, the new curation solution helps media companies unify editorial and algorithmic curation by combining human creativity and editorial control with data-driven recommendations in one workflow; give editorial and product teams direct control over content presentation; launch and iterate pages and rails faster without engineering dependency, and increase engagement and retention by surfacing the right content at the right time for the right audience.

“Streaming has moved beyond the question of simply having great content; the challenge now is making sure every viewer can discover the right content at the right moment. That creates a tension between the scale and intelligence that automation can bring, and the editorial judgment that gives a service its identity. With Mediagenix Curation, we’re bringing those two forces together, giving editorial teams the control to shape the experience while using automation and personalization to execute their strategy at scale,” said Patricia Blanco, Product Manager of Mediagenix On Demand and Curation.

“Over time, our ambition is to connect that viewer experience much more closely with the wider content lifecycle, so that what audiences discover and engage with can help inform how media companies plan, schedule and ultimately get more value from their content.”

Mediagenix will demo Mediagenix Curation at Stand 1.B57 during the 2026 IBC Shoiw, Sept. 11-14 at the RAI Amsterdam.

EVS will highlight its new Neuron 4X processor delivering four times the processing capacity of the previous Neuron generation during IBC 2026, Sept. 11-14, at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Center.

Designed to enable broadcasters, production companies and content owners to handle higher stream counts, greater bandwidth and increasingly complex workflows Neuron 4X offers native 400Gb/s connectivity in the same compact Neuron form factor.

It consumes less than twice the power of the previous Neuron without compromising the reliability and operational resilience required for mission-critical live production environments.

“The industry has spent the last decade getting live production onto IP. Now we’re seeing the next challenge: How do you scale those infrastructures as steam counts, UHD requirements and centralized production all grow?” said Oscar Teran, executive vice president of markets and solutions at EVS.

“That’s what we’re addressing with Neuron 4X. We’re giving customers significantly more processing capacity, while reducing their infrastructure footprint, and optimizing their capital and operational costs.”

Neuron 4X expands the current Neuron portfolio rather than replacing it, giving users the flexibility to choose the platform that best matches their specific requirements. Designed for deployments requiring higher UHD stream counts and greater processing density, Neuron 4X complements the existing 100Gb/s platform, which continues to address a broad range of production and infrastructure needs.

“Neuron 4X brings together the deterministic and predictable processing of an FPGA-based platform with the flexibility of software-defined media processing,” said Peter Schut, senior vice president of processing, media infrastructure solutions at EVS.

“Customers can add new applications and processing capabilities through software, while maintaining the consistency and performance mission-critical live production demands. It’s a platform that scales with their requirements, rather than forcing them to continually redesign their infrastructure.”

The first application running on the platform is Bridge 4x, and ultra-high density IP gateway designed for large UHD workflows. View 4X will follow, delivering four times the channel count for high-density multiviewing.

See EVS in IBC 2026 stand 7.B11.

More information is available on the company’s website.

BOTHELL, Wash.—The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) has announced the results of its second IPMX Product Certification Test Event, Aug. 24-28, at European Broadcasting Union (EBU) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

Eight manufacturers submitted 14 products for testing, and all fourteen were officially certified to the Internet Protocol Media Experience (IPMX) standard, qualifying them to carry the IPMX branding and signaling verified compliance with published transport, control and interoperability requirements.

The EBU serves as the independent certification authority for IPMX and conducted the testing at its Geneva facility, while AIMS administered the certification program overall. This event, the second since the program's inaugural session in January that certified 48 products from 10 manufacturers, was open to AIMS, VSF and AMWA member companies. It has continued the shift from informal plugfests to a formal, repeatable certification process, giving integrators and end users an independent basis for verifying IPMX interoperability.

Following rigorous testing, solutions from Bridge Technologies, Cobalt Digital, EvertzAV, ITDev, intoPIX, Matrox Video, Macnica and PlexusAV successfully passed certification. Testing covered the baseline IPMX requirements along with uncompressed video and audio, the JPEG XS profile, the JPEG XS TDC profile mode and the HKEP and PEP capabilities.

IPMX is a set of open standards and specifications designed to extend SMPTE ST 2110–based media transport and NMOS–based control into a broader range of markets, including professional AV, live events, corporate media and education. In addition to uncompressed workflows, IPMX introduces support for compressed video, simplified system timing, HDCP, interoperable USB over IP, media encryption between brands and defined system profiles to make deployment more practical, scalable and cost-effective for Pro AV environments.

The certification program is designed to ensure predictable behavior, reliable interoperability and adherence to the published IPMX test plans and specifications.

The IPMX test plan is available online.

The IPMX certification registry is available online.

Technical IPMX information is available online.

Information about the AIMS Alliance is available online.

GRASS VALLEY, Calif.—AJA Video Systems today unveiled OG-FiDO-4, a new family of openGear-compatible cards offering four channels of conversion between 12G-/3G-SDI and fiber, expanding the OG-FiDO-4 family to nine different modules. The product line is designed to enable reliable, uncompressed SDI transport over LC fiber and includes DashBoard software support for centralized monitoring.

The new cards will be demonstrated at the IBC Show, Sept. 11-14 at the RAI Amsterdam.

“At a time when multicamera setups are growing in size and complexity across broadcast, live production, and proAV environments, extending SDI infrastructure over fiber has never mattered more. The OG-FiDO-4 family delivers practical, cost-efficient solutions with the channel density, signal integrity, and dependability that mission-critical environments demand,” said AJA President Nick Rashby.

The nine models available include the base card and AJA Fiber SFP variations such as 12G-SDI, 3G-SDI, single-mode, and multi-mode models. Each model features independent, isolated SDI-BNC connectors that enable different rates to be carried simultaneously and an integrated rear I/O card unlocks high-density transport, up to 40 channels in an openGear frame.

DashBoard software streamlines installation, configuration, monitoring, and service updates on Windows and macOS with support for HDR video and pass-through of SDI metadata.

The models also feature Input Present and Input SMPTE Lock LEDs, automatic data rate detection and reclocking and are compatible with current AJA FIBERLC TX and RX SFP Modules, as well as the OG-X-FR and OG-3-FR openGear frames. Power consumption is 8W maximum.

The OG-FiDO-4 family will be available soon for purchase through AJA’s network of resellers starting at $2,295 and $2,695 US MSRP.

AJA will be in Stand 7.B25 during the show.

ATLANTA—East India regional broadcaster Odisha Television Network (OTV) has selected Quortex to replace its legacy hardware with advanced video processing software and to manage its end-to-end on-premises network.

The broadcaster is Odisha’s largest broadcast and digital media network. It reaches 45 million Odia speakers worldwide across satellite and digital platforms.

OTV has gone live with encoding, multiplexing and scrambling using Quortex virtualized Digital Content Manager (vDCM), the company’s software-centric, cloud-native video processing and delivery platform. It is also using Quortex Video Service Manager (VSM) to centralize the configuration and control of its complex video distribution workflows.

“Odisha Television needed a partner who could support them locally, at scale and around the clock,” said Elke Hungenaert, head of products at Quortex. “By transitioning their video processing from hardware to software, we’ve established a flexible foundation that supports their critical business needs today and scales for the journey ahead.”

The Quortex Global Network Operations Center (GNOC) in Bangalore is providing OTV with 24/7 premium technical support, including proactive maintenance and incident management across its entire network infrastructure, including third-party components.

“Partnering with Quortex delivered a seamless migration to a future-proof software platform,” said Litisha Panda, head of business at Odisha Television Network. “We gained immediate operational efficiency and complete peace of mind knowing Quortex is managing our broadcast operations.”

More information is available on the company’s website.

CLEVELAND—Telos Alliance will highlight its latest product line for TV, streaming, and radio at the 2026 IBC Show, Sept. 11-14 at the RAI Amsterdam.

Visitors to Stand 8.D37 will find two European product debuts as well as major updates and additions across intercom, live production audio, and file-based audio workflow tools.

New this year for Jünger Audio flexAI, is flexAI CastCompanion. Powered by JAIC, the Jünger Audio Intelligent Companion, flexAI autonomously manages live voice sources that may arrive at very different levels, with varying quality and background noise. JAIC analyzes the incoming audio and helps optimize parameters, while Jünger’s deterministic algorithms handle the actual processing, delivering predictable latency and broadcast reliability. CastCompanion combines automixing, AI-assisted de-noising, voice enhancement, and loudness management to create consistent, intelligible mixes without an operator constantly riding levels.

Telos Alliance will show new flexAI support for 12G-SDI and NDI and will demonstrate how flexAI now integrates with the TVU MediaMesh cloud-native live production platform, allowing producers to extend Jünger’s powerful processing ecosystem across hardware, server, IP, partner, and cloud workflows.

The company will also highlight new Infinity MK2 hardware panels for the Telos Infinity IP intercom range. Designed for use in the studio and in the field, the larger buttons feature bright TFT displays, programmable colors, flexible Talk/Listen controls, three shift pages, a Reply to Last Caller function, and four-way “compass” controls.

For sports commentators, Infinity VCP Virtual Commentator Panel now integrates directly with Elgato Stream Deck+, adding compact physical controls to its browser-based commentary environment without requiring a traditional dedicated commentary box. VCP also uses adaptive bitrate control to help maintain contribution audio intelligibility and network reliability.

Also making its debut in Europe is Axia Pulsar, a compact AoIP console, that features an 8-fader Master Module that uses dual operating layers to provide access to 16 inputs; an optional Expansion Module gives physical access to all 16 faders. Axia Pulsar features bright TFT displays, touch-sensitive encoders, spill-proof 100mm motorized faders, programmable controls, Show Profiles, and integrated EBU R128 loudness metering. Powered by the 2RU StudioCore engine, the compact Pulsar integrates directly into all Livewire and AES67 environments. Optional Pulsar Soft browser-based control also makes remote operation possible from a computer, tablet, or smartphone, according to Telos Alliance.

Minnetoka AudioTools Server v7 will debut at IBC, with new A.I./machine-learning modules that include Language Detection, Dialog Intelligibility, and a powerful new tool, AudioTools Source Separation by AudioShake. This new subscription module can extract dialogue, music, and effects from finished program audio to give broadcasters, studios, streaming providers, and content owners new ways to work with existing material when original multitrack sessions are unavailable or incomplete.

Dialogue can be isolated for dubbing or intelligibility enhancement, music can be replaced for creative or licensing reasons, and clean M&E tracks can be created for alternate-language versions and new distribution opportunities. Because source separation runs inside AudioTools Server, it can also be combined with existing loudness, QC, transcoding, language, and delivery processes to create repeatable, automated workflows at scale.

For radio, the Omnia XII will mark its European debut at the show. Its new processing architecture combines wideband AGC, five bands of intelligent multiband AGC and compressors, six bands of multiband limiting, smart dynamic EQ, refined bass management, and a new “Clemenza” clipper, designed to deliver competitive loudness without the distortion and listener fatigue that can come with aggressive processing.

Along with products featured at IBC, Telos Alliance will showcase its work with industry partners to advance interoperability and more consistent audio workflows.

As part of the IBC Accelerator “Crystal Clear” project, Telos Alliance is collaborating with Nugen Audio, RTW, Steinberg, Fraunhofer IDMT, Channel 4, BBC, ITV, and others on standardized dialogue intelligibility measurement across the industry.

Telos Alliance will take part in Grass Valley's AMPP demo, with Minnetonka Audio ARC loudness processing and UPMAX up/down/cross-mixing interconnected via MXL to enable higher-quality, lower-latency audio processing within AMPP workflows.

Telos Alliance will also participate in Qvest’s Dynamic Media Facility demonstration, a portable, multi-vendor production environment handling live feeds, real-time audio and video processing, Dolby Atmos upmixing, signal monitoring, and multiviewing. Telos Alliance processing will operate alongside tools from other vendors, with MXL providing the common connection between applications. The demo shows how MXL can simplify integration and reduce latency across on-prem and cloud workflows.

Telos Alliance will be in Stand 8.D37.

The old-fashioned, one-screen display monitor in TV studios, OB trucks and master control rooms (MCRs) had to evolve technologically because it did only one thing. Or, to be more accurate, because it showed only one thing. The result was the multiviewer, which was—and still is—able to show multiple image sources simultaneously.

While that was a massive step forward and made for more extensive and efficient monitoring, the multiviewer itself is now evolving further. The demands of modern broadcasting and streaming call for something that not only displays pictures but is part of an overall production and distribution infrastructure.

The multiviewer has evolved from a simple “display wall” to a “software-defined monitoring and intelligence platform,” said Suzana Brady, senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at Cobalt Digital. This allows operators and engineering teams to monitor ever more complicated infrastructures, she explained. “The focus has shifted from simply seeing signals to helping operators monitor, manage and respond to increasingly complex workflows efficiently,” she said.

Shifting Focus
The change is driven by three current trends in broadcast technology: hybrid SDI/IP facilities becoming the norm; the continuing expansion of remote/cloud production; and broadcasters wanting fewer dedicated monitor systems and more integrated tools for monitoring, operations and processing, she said.

Another transformation in how multiviewers are expected to operate is identified by Lawo Product Evangelist Paul Scott. Bigger broadcasters are looking for more flexibility from their monitoring displays, which are often fixed multiviewer installations—typically one per studio—and can be expensive in terms of capex when multiple studios and events are involved, he said.

Manufacturers now offer various options to reduce capex for multiviewing. Lawo’s HOME IP management platform, which includes a range of specialized apps, is based on readily available COTS hardware and works with native cloud and containerization technologies, including NATS and Docker, and monitoring tools like Grafana or Prometheus.

The word “hardware” might seem incongruous when multiviewers are now described as either “software-based” or “software-defined,” Scott agreed. However, he explained, the shift has been away from dedicated processing hardware that performs only one function.

More Formats
A big shift since last year has been the expansion of formats users now work with, said Ketan Patel, project manager for multiviewer systems at Evertz.

“People want to have the mixed signal monitoring or multiviewing of the mixed signals, whether it’s ST 2110, SDI or compressed feeds,” he said. “But now JPEG XS is getting added to the mix due to interfacility connections.

“On top of that, we are noticing customers looking for more integrated systems,” Patel added. “They want a single surface where they can manipulate the multiviewers, do their routing and analyze the signals. It’s more like dashboarding, so they want one surface to bring that all together and simplify day-to-day operations.”

John Mailhot, senior vice president for product management, playout and infrastructure at Imagine Communications, confirmed “more functionality” is being “dashboarded” and moved into the multiviewer. This has made multiviewers “the most important part of the facility,” he said, because they connect the operations team to what they are doing.

“The multiviewer is becoming more of an information hub,” he explained. “This is driven by a need for economy within the television operation. In a historical small TV station, you’d have one master control operator running the channel.

“Now that same operator is trying to manage the main channel, cable distribution, OTT, a side channel and ENGs [electronic newsgathering],” Mailhot continued. “Multiviewers are where that all comes together.”

As for the signal formats, Mailhot also predicted the hybrid model would be adopted, adding that SDI will “be with us forever—or at least another 10 to 20 years.”

SDI is among many signal formats that today’s multiviewers must accomodate. As Brady observed, these also include ST 2110, compressed IP streams and cloud feeds. But though the market “has shifted increasingly toward software,” she pointed out, it has not moved entirely to the cloud—relying on gateways between different formats and IPMX, which supports the convergence between broadcast and Pro AV workflows.

The Home MCR
IP and internet connectivity have also furthered adoption of “MCR at home,” where operators working remotely can access all sources and functions they would have on-prem. This technology is typically deployed as a distributed MCR rather than a completely remote setup, Brady said, with the critical signal processing taking place in a secure data center or broadcast facility while operators work through browser-based interfaces on an IP connection.

Lawo’s Scott said MCR at-home functionality can be facilitated through a second output from the multiviewer head as an SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) feed. The company has seen more demand for remote video monitoring, for which it has introduced Workspaces, an HTML-5 virtual user interface that can be used on desktop and laptop computers, tablets and phones, he added.

Evertz has also adopted the MCR at home. To do this, according to Patel, all the necessary controls—not just the multiviewer function—have been integrated and made available on a single browser. Alongside this, Evertz is integrating AI capability into the analytics feature set, including alarm and telemetry data.

“Those are being analyzed to make smarter decisions to present to the users,” Patel explained. “We haven’t automated it completely [to the point] where AI is driving everything, [but] those will be future steps.”

Agentic AI is the form of the technology most suited to multiviewing and monitoring, as it has the capacity to learn what to do. AI agents are “one of the most significant developments in the multiviewer market over the next few years,” Cobalt Digital’s Brady said.

“Everybody is in the experimenting phase” with AI, said Mailhot, noting that Imagine is running “a number of initiatives” around how AI systems within a facility interact with other equipment. “And designing how that works in a way that is both repeatable, reliable and correctly safeguarded,” he added. “You want to make sure these agentic systems can do something useful but, at the same time, that they don’t do anything to endanger your production.”

At this rate—and with the perceived potential of agentic AI—it is likely that multiviewers will have moved on considerably by this time next year.

OSLO, Norway—Bridge Technologies has announced that its flagship VB440 production probe now supports monitoring of Blackmagic Design's IP10 codec and will provide demos in its booth as well as Blackmagic’s booth at the upcoming 2026 IBC Show, Sept. 11-14 at the RAI Amsterdam.

IP10 is Blackmagic's lightweight, low-latency codec designed to address a specific challenge in ST 2110 environments: fitting high-frame-rate Ultra HD video through a 10 GigE connection while maintaining broadcast-quality, 10-bit 4:2:2 colour performance.

With a latency of just eight-pixel samples and an extremely small FPGA footprint, IP10 is license-free and open, allowing broadcasters to deploy ST 2110 workflows without the expense of 25GE or 200GE switching infrastructure. For broadcasters operating in OB trucks, remote locations, or smaller facilities where high-speed network infrastructure is not available, IP10 offers a pragmatic path to uncompressed-quality IP production over widely available 10GE links, Bridge said.

The VB440 itself is equipped with dual 200 GigE interfaces, capable of handling uncompressed ST 2110 streams at the highest data rates. But in contexts where the wider network infrastructure is operating on smaller bandwidth channels—with IP10 being used precisely to address that limitation—the VB440's native support for the codec means engineers can monitor IP10-encoded streams with the same depth of visibility they expect from uncompressed workflows, according to the company. This ensures that even in bandwidth-constrained environments, the VB440 remains a viable and powerful monitoring presence.

Facilities using IP10 as an underlying codec will thus have full access to the extensive range of tools present within the VB440, which itself represents a uniquely powerful production tool that combines both network monitoring and a full suite of practical production tools within a single RU appliance, thus drastically truck roll weight, energy consumption and the cost and space associated with screens and cabling, Bridge said.

The demos will take place at Bridge Technologies stand (Booth 1.A71) and Blackmagic’s (7.C49) during the show.

CYPRESS, Calif.—For-A has announced the expansion of viztrick AiDi into an overarching AI technology brand encompassing two dedicated products: Go Vertical! AiDi and AiDi Sports Hub. Developed by Nippon TV and delivered globally by For-A, viztrick AiDi brings advanced AI capabilities directly into live production workflows, with on-device processing designed to deliver the speed and responsiveness live content demands.

The new product structure makes it easier for broadcasters, sports producers, and other content creators to choose the AI tools that fit their needs, according to the company. Go Vertical! AiDi addresses the growing demand for mobile-first video delivered in a 9:16 format, while AiDi Sports Hub applies AI to create more engaging live coverage with tools that provide additional context.

“AI is becoming an increasingly practical part of live production, but customers don’t need technology simply for technology’s sake,” said Hiro Tanoue, Director, Alliance Department at For-A Company Limited. “They need tools that solve real production challenges without adding complexity. By establishing viztrick AiDi as our overall AI technology brand and introducing Go Vertical! AiDi and AiDi Sports Hub as dedicated products, we can make it much clearer for customers to identify the capabilities that can make a difference in their workflows.”

Previously introduced at the 2026 NAB Show as a feature of viztrick AiDi, Go Vertical! AiDi is now a dedicated product built around AI-driven, real-time 9:16 cropping, For-A said. The system analyzes live video and automatically creates vertically formatted output optimized for social media and mobile viewing.

For broadcasters and content owners, that means existing 16:9 programming can be adapted for mobile audiences as the action happens, without creating an entirely separate production workflow. Go Vertical! AiDi supports automated tracking modes for sports including basketball, soccer, and baseball, as well as group subjects. Operators can also identify and track specific subjects, with the system automatically resuming tracking if a registered subject temporarily disappears.

The technology operates on-device rather than depending upon cloud processing - an important advantage when immediacy matters. Go Vertical AiDi features near-real-time processing for live 9:16 production, avoiding the five-to-ten-second delay associated with some competing approaches.

Go Vertical! AiDi also supports mobile-first coverage of news, conferences, red carpets, entertainment programming, and other live events where audiences increasingly consume content vertically.

AiDi Sports Hub takes viztrick AiDi technology in another direction, giving sports production teams AI-assisted tools that can add information, context, and visual storytelling to live coverage.

The system's capabilities include telestration, player tracking, player speed, distance and angle measurement, baseball runner speed, automated score graphics, and facial-recognition graphics. For-A said it is also developing additional capabilities including 2.5D/3D graphics, ball-trajectory visualization, sensor-based golf-ball trajectory, and AI-assisted automated program production.

Both Go Vertical! AiDi and AiDi Sports Hub are now available globally.

For more information about viztrick AiDi, Go Vertical! AiDi and AiDi Sports Hub, visit www.for-a.com.

MONTREAL—Encompass Digital Media has launched Altitude Playout Plus, a software-defined channel origination platform it has developed with Grass Valley to help broadcasters manage live, late-changing and complex programming.

Encompass Digital Media provides managed media services to broadcasters, networks, sports leagues, federations, and OTT platforms worldwide, supporting channel origination, content processing, live event distribution and delivery.

The new service combines Encompass’s managed services, Media Cloud and Altitude Flow, with Grass Valley AMPP and Playout X, creating an integrated workflow from media supply chain operations through to channel origination and transmission. Channel 4 has selected Altitude Playout Plus to support its channel portfolio under a new multi-year managed playout agreement, with services scheduled to launch in 2027. Channel 4 is the second major U.K. public broadcaster to select the Encompass and Grass Valley platform, following the successful launch this month, according to the companies.

Altitude Playout Plus has been developed for channels where schedules and content can change close to and during transmission, such as live sports, news and entertainment. Alongside playout, the architecture supports live contribution, event management, recording and fast-turnaround workflows.

Grass Valley’s AMPP provides the software-defined production and playout foundation, with Playout X supporting channel origination. Encompass integrates these capabilities with Altitude Flow, its media supply chain and control platform, while its web-based Playout Director brings together the operational data needed to manage live programming and late changes.

This distributed architecture can be deployed across cloud and on-premises infrastructure and operated from multiple Encompass locations, the companies said. Services for the UK public broadcasters will be delivered from Encompass facilities in London and Riga, providing geographic diversity while giving operational teams flexibility over where resources are deployed.

The architecture also gives Encompass access to additional AMPP applications when specialist capabilities are required. Resources can be introduced according to the requirements of a channel or event rather than maintained permanently for workflows that may only be used periodically.

Grass Valley says the deployment demonstrates how its Dynamic Media Facility approach supports established broadcast services across hybrid, geographically distributed infrastructure. AMPP applications can operate alongside existing systems and Encompass technology without requiring the service provider or its customers to standardize operations around a single deployment location.

The two companies have completed extensive design work ahead of the Channel 4 transition to ensure the platform meets the broadcaster’s technical and operational requirements.

Visitors to the 2026 IBC Show can learn more about Grass Valley AMPP, Playout X and the Dynamic Media Facility at the company’s booth (9.A01), Sept. 11-14 at the RAI Amsterdam.

MARLOW, UK—At IBC2026, TSL will present a series of enhancements and expansions to its monitoring, control, orchestration, and power management solution with the goal of operating IP and hybrid infrastructures more efficiently.

TSL will showcase new network-based control integrations within the TSL Hummingbird ecosystem, helping broadcasters manage increasingly diverse IP infrastructures. Dante router control will be on show at IBC2026 for the first time. Together with support for NMOS, the expansion enables broadcasters to control multi-vendor environments across SDI, ST 2110, NDI and Dante workflows operating side-by-side.

TSL will also highlight how it has improved Hummingbird support for NDI, Amagi Tally, TSL v5 Server and VDCP-IP. The additions enable broader integration with third-party production, routing, and playout systems, giving broadcasters greater flexibility to build interoperable IP workflows, the company said.

TSL says it will also launch a new software app that supports complex workflow virtualization and automation at scale at the show.

Following TSL’s acquisition of JL Cooper Electronics earlier this year, IBC2026 offers the first major opportunity to showcase how its specialist human-machine interface (HMI) and machine-to-machine interface (MMI) technologies expand TSL Hummingbird control options for broadcast, proAV, education, live events and creator workflows.

The latest generation of TSL’s AMUs will be integrated into new workflow displays at IBC, with updated hardware and firmware to meet the critical demands of modern IP and hybrid live production environments. Multiple price-point and form factor options are available for users across Analogue, 3G-SDI, 12G-SDI, Madi, Dante, Ravenna, ST2110-30, AES3, AES67 and Dolby also featuring added resiliency with ST2022-7 redundancy.

TSL will also showcase its latest release for its range of intelligent, managed PDUs, extending operational visibility and control beyond media to the critical power and IT infrastructure that underpins mission critical operations. Designed for data centers, live production facilities and central machine rooms, the PDUs provide engineers with real-time power monitoring, remote diagnostics, and remote management and control to improve resilience and operational efficiency and help drive down costs and power usage to support sustainability goals, according to the company.

“The conversation has shifted from simply moving media over IP to efficient and easy-to-deploy control and orchestration across both multi-vendor and multi-technology environments,” said Matthew Quade, CEO, TSL. “Broadcasters need solutions that bring together unified control, intuitive operation and open interoperability, without locking them into single vendor systems or adding complexity, as well as wanting choice for deployment options in software and hardware.

"By extending TSL Hummingbird’s capabilities, expanding our range of HMI and MMI control interfaces and continuing to invest in response to market demands across audio monitoring and power, customers have the flexibility to manage today’s infrastructures more efficiently while building in future-readiness to enable change at their pace and within their budgets,” he added.

TSL team will be Stand 7.B12.

NEW YORK—TAG Video Systems will demonstrate new performance and interoperability milestones for live, uncompressed production during IBC2026, Sept. 11-14, at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Center.

TAG has pushed latency on SMPTE ST 2110 streams below two frames and extended its software to monitor 800 Gbps of aggregate bandwidth, showing that a software-only platform can now hit the performance and density that uncompressed live production has demanded of dedicated hardware.

TAG has also continued to extend live MXL interoperability across multiple partner demonstrations, including AWS, Qvest, Sony and the EBU. TAG is deepening the audio, video, color and HDR QC tools operators use as their primary multiviewing and QC bench in live, uncompressed environments.

Highlights of the company’s latest software enhancements include:

• Sub-2-frame latency. TAG has driven latency on ST 2110 streams down to as low as under 2 frames at 50fps and 2 frames at 59.94fps (MCM input to MCM output), with CIR (Cyclic Intra Refresh) encoding on MCM output. That puts QC and multiviewing directly in line in the live production chain, catching problems before they reach air.
• Massive software scale. Support for the Mellanox ConnectX-7 network card, run as four 200 Gbps ports for an aggregate 800 Gbps, lets a single software instance monitor significantly more uncompressed ST 2110 streams on that same instance.
• MXL interoperability. The company was one of the first vendors to support MXL, and it will demonstrate live interoperability at IBC2026 with partners, including AWS, Qvest, Sony and the EBU.

TAG's audio, color and HDR tools are built for the operator watching a live show as it happens, including phase, correlation, frequency and loudness scopes (EBU R128 / ITU-R BS.1770 compliance). Its solution catches a dropped channel, a phase error or a loudness spike on a live feed in real time, not in a file review the next day.

QC Station's Waveform, Vectorscope, RGB/Luma Histogram and Parade tools are already used daily to match color and exposure across live camera sources in the same multiviewer operators used to run the show. New to the release are Dolby Vision Profile 8.1 detection. Decode and monitoring in MCM lets a live Dolby Vision source be validated side by side with HDR10, HDR10+, HLG and SDR feeds in the same live mosaic, with the MCS API also exposing Dolby Vision Profile 5 (ICtCp) color formats.

See TAG Video Systems at IBC 2026 stand 1.D33.

More information is available on the company’s website.

WALTHAM, Mass.—Zixi will feature the Zixi Platform for managing and delivering live video across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments as well as Version 19 of Zixi Broadcaster during IBC 2026, Sept. 11-14, at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Center.

This latest release targets two of the most persistent problems in live operations: network conditions that degrade at the worst possible moment and a growing equipment chain between source and audience. The latest version offers new capabilities and expansions that give operators more ways to keep a feed on air while removing boxes from the signal path.

Zixi will also demonstrate the wider capabilities of the Zixi Platform, including patented hitless failover and multi-path redundancy, recovery from up to 40% packet loss, multi-protocol, multi-vendor and multi-cloud interoperability, stream-level processing with ESNI/ESAM support, and full-workflow observability through ZEN Master.

Users of the platform have reported up to three times lower compute and bandwidth costs than legacy approaches—a message that continues to resonate as broadcasters weigh satellite replacement and other moves to IP-first delivery.

“Every conversation at IBC this year comes back to the same question. How do you keep live video reliable when the network won’t cooperate,” said Marc Aldrich, CEO of Zixi. “Broadcaster v19 and the wider Zixi Platform gives broadcasters a direct answer. Fewer points of failure, automatic recovery when conditions degrade even in the last mile and a clear, proven path off satellite and onto IP without adding risk to live operations.”

Zixi will take part in two sessions on the IBC Content Everywhere stage. They include:

• 10:15-11 a.m., on Stage 2. Jonathan Low of Zixi will join Jan Frelek of Backscreen and John Leonard of DeviceAtlas.
• “From Satellite to IP at Scale: A Proven Path for Global Broadcasters,” 4:30-5:50 p.m., Sept. 13, on Stage 2. Zixi’s Low will join Amagi’s Paul Finster.

The company is also sponsoring two events at the convention, including:

• The Bitmovin Innovators Network at the Heineken Experience, Sept. 10, 3–6 p.m., (Stadhouderskade 78, 1072 NV Amsterdam). Register online.
• "Where Does the Signal Go Next?" a breakfast hosted by Hive Group during which there will be a discussion of the shift away from traditional broadcast distribution, Sept. 11, 7:30-10:30 a.m. (The Traveller at RAI Amsterdam Convention Center). Details are available online.

Zixi will also be featured on the NETINT stand, Stand 1.D49, alongside NETINT’s ecosystem of encoding and transcoding partners.

See Zixi at IBC 2026 Stand 5.A76.

More information is available on the company’s website.

The production environment that broadcast infrastructure was built around no longer exists. The model of the studio with a defined perimeter, a predictable signal path, and content that stayed within four walls has been under pressure for years, and the pressure is not easing.

Remote production means contributors are no longer in the building. Corporate clients with broadcast-quality studios want those studios to feed their enterprise networks: the lobby screen, the conference room, the overflow space on the floor above.

Houses of worship running full production environments need the same signal that powers their main auditorium to reach every classroom and corridor in the complex. Education facilities are building multi-camera setups not just for events, but for daily instruction that flows across buildings and campuses.

None of these are edge cases. They represent a significant and growing segment of production activity, and none of them are well-served by a contained baseband workflow. The SDI-to-IP conversation has been going on for a decade. What has not kept pace is the infrastructure layer that determines whether IP actually delivers on its promise.

The Real Barrier is not the Protocol
What often gets lost in the SDI-versus-IP debate is that the barrier to adoption is rarely the protocol itself. NDI, Dante, AES67, SMPTE ST 2110 are proven, mature, and increasingly affordable. The technology works. The problem is the network sitting underneath it.

For years, configuring a switch for a broadcast or professional AV environment required someone with deep IT networking knowledge. Someone who understands multicast routing, IGMP snooping, PTP grandmaster configuration, VLAN segmentation across mixed protocols. Large integrators might have had two or three people in the entire organization capable of doing it correctly.

That bottleneck was a meaningful brake on IP adoption, and operations lacking that specialist knowledge either stayed with SDI, made configuration errors that eroded confidence in IP workflows, or relied on unmanaged switches that worked until they did not.

Complexity Does Not Scale
The problem compounds in hybrid environments, which are now the norm. A typical broadcast or corporate studio operation today might be running NDI for remote contributors, Dante for audio, SMPTE ST 2110 for its core video fabric, and AES67 for audio interop—all simultaneously, all across the same physical infrastructure. Each protocol has its own network requirements, and getting them to coexist without colliding requires switch-level configuration that is specific, precise, and easy to get wrong.

The industry largely accepted this as an unavoidable cost of IP adoption, but I think it’s worth challenging. When NDI 4 was transporting NDI traffic, control traffic, and Dante over the same ports without separation, manufacturers were fielding support calls that were about the network surrounding their product.

The fix was not to change the protocol, but to build the separation into the switch itself. Manufacturers who adopted that approach reported reductions in NDI-related support calls of 80-90%.

The Next Generation of Broadcast Infrastructure
The operations successfully making the transition to IP are not necessarily the biggest or best-resourced. What they share is infrastructure specified for the workflow, not generic IT hardware pressed into service.

As production workflows move toward 25 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit transport—already underway at the leading edge of the market—the margin for infrastructure that is merely adequate shrinks considerably. A switch that handles 1 GB NDI traffic may not handle uncompressed SMPTE ST 2110 at the same level of reliability. The physics change, and so do the timing requirements, the synchronization demands, and the consequences of getting it wrong.

Broadcast engineers understand this intuitively from the SDI world. The discipline around termination, signal path, and equipment specification that makes SDI reliable translates to an IP workflow. PTP grandmaster configuration is the timing equivalent of gen-lock. VLAN segmentation is the traffic management equivalent of router output assignment. The execution requires infrastructure purpose-built to handle them.

The Partnership Layer
For most of the last decade, the production vendor and the network vendor operated as separate procurement tracks. The integrator specified a production system from one supplier and a network from another, then reconciled the two on-site, often discovering incompatibilities that had not surfaced during pre-sales.

The market is beginning to move away from that model. When production vendors validate and distribute switching infrastructure alongside their own product, the compatibility question is already answered before the project starts. The integrator is deploying a solution that has been tested end-to-end, not reconciling two separately specified systems.

For integrators handling the full scope of a project without a dedicated network engineering resource, removing that compatibility uncertainty changes the risk profile of the project in a way that makes IP adoption viable for clients who would otherwise stay with what they know.

Foundation Before Conversation
Years of SDI-versus-IP debate have generated panel discussions, white papers, and show floor demonstrations. What the industry has scrutinized less is the infrastructure layer underneath those protocols - and whether it is actually ready to deliver on the flexibility and scalability that IP promises.

The operations thriving in hybrid IP environments are not the ones that chose the right protocol. They are the ones that built the right foundation first. The network is not a commodity input in a broadcast IP workflow. It is the layer that determines whether everything above it works—reliably, repeatedly, and at scale. Until the industry starts treating it that way, the gap between the IP conversation and IP reality will remain.

BOSTON—EditShare will unveil new developments across EFS, FLOW AI, MediaSilo and EditShare One at the 2026 IBC Show, Sept. 11-14 at the RAI Amsterdam.

EditShare will launch new all-in-one Ultimate EFS configurations for EFS 310 and EFS 410 with FLOW media management and GPU-powered FLOW AI processing built into the nodes. By combining shared storage, media management and AI processing, the new configurations provide a more accessible route to AI-assisted media discovery for teams that do not require the processing scale of a dedicated standalone GPU system, the company said.

FLOW AI has now expanded transcription support across 13 languages: English, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish, with Hebrew and Arabic following shortly after. The expanded language support will help broadcasters, production companies and post-production teams apply AI-assisted search and discovery across a wider range of international content.

EditShare will also preview how MediaSilo is expanding beyond review and approval into a broader production media hub. Media Drives, a new connected-storage capability, will allow authorized users to access approved S3-compatible storage directly through MediaSilo, including on-prem EFS storage presented through S3 and supported third-party on-prem and cloud platforms.

Teams will be able to browse folders, search mounted media by filename and preview content where it is stored. They can then copy only the files they need into MediaSilo, rather than transferring everything before they know what is needed.

Once there, MediaSilo AI allows users to search transcripts, on-screen text, people, logos and scenes. The same workspace supports timecoded feedback, version management, dailies, approval tracking and protected external review.

EditShare will also demonstrate the latest developments in EditShare One, giving users a faster and more intuitive way to access and manage content across EFS and FLOW.

Users can archive and restore complete media spaces or folders directly from EditShare One, making it easier to manage large collections without handling assets individually. The expanded archive workflow also supports integrations with Telestream DIVA Archive and Spectra Logic Rio MediaEngine in addition to the currently supported 3rd party storage capabilities within FLOW.

EditShare will be in booth 7.B18.

PARAMUS, N.J.—Sony Electronics and Vitec today announced a strategic global collaboration targeting corporate environments, entertainment venues, hospitality, healthcare, and public facilities by integrating Sony’s Bravia professional displays with Vitec’s IPTV and digital signage platform. The collaboration delivers an end-to-end IPTV and signage ecosystem that enhances visual experience and eliminates the need for external media players, offering a simpler-to-deploy, native Android-based app for Sony’s displays, the companies said.

By integrating Sony’s Bravia professional displays with Vitec’s Avedia IPTV and digital signage platform, the combination offers a player-less IPTV solution directly to the display’s system-on-a-chip (SoC). The Android-based Bravia professional display’s deployment tools offer smooth deployment of Vitec’s Avedia player software directly onto Sony displays without the need for additional hardware. This all-in-one approach reduces installation complexity, streamlines management, and lowers the total cost of ownership for end users, the companies said.

The combined technology, orchestrated by Vitec’s CMS can support thousands of displays—covering a wide range of screen sizes—while maintaining centralized control. From live IPTV channels to interactive signage and targeted advertising, users can adapt content in real time to maximize engagement and revenue opportunities.

“By combining Sony’s world-class display technology with Vitec’s powerful IPTV and signage platform, we are delivering a game-changing solution across many verticals,” said Rik Willemse, Head of Professional Display Solutions Europe, Sony Europe. “This collaboration allows operators and end users to create dynamic, engaging environments while simplifying installation and reducing operational complexity,” said Rich Ventura, Vice President, Professional Display Solutions America, Sony Electronics Inc.

This integration provides robust performance even in large-scale deployments with demanding requirements. Centralized content control, redundancy features, and support for the latest security standards ensure that any setup can rely on the system for mission-critical operation with end-to-end content protection.

“This strategic global collaboration between Vitec and Sony marks the beginning of an evolving collaboration focused on delivering innovative, secure, and scalable IPTV and digital signage solutions worldwide. By integrating our technologies and expertise, we are committed to providing customers with seamless, future-ready platforms and workflows that address the diverse needs of modern organizations,” said Eli Garten, Senior Vice President, Global IPTV and Partner Solutions for Vitec.

In addition to IPTV and digital signage solutions, Vitec’s end-to-end offering includes head-end encoding and streaming, IP gateways and video wall systems to manage, distribute and display content across using any network.

BOTHELL, Wash.—The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) has announced that ITDev and Bolin Technology have joined the organization as its newest members.

The additions bring a professional PTZ camera and AV-over-IP hardware manufacturer and a FPGA design and IP licensing specialist into the alliance, further broadening the range of expertise represented among AIMS members as adoption of IPMX and SMPTE ST 2110-based standards continues to expand across broadcast and Pro AV, the group said.

“Both Bolin Technology and ITDev each bring a different, valuable perspective to AIMS,” said Andrew Starks, director of product marketing, Macnica Broadcast & Pro AV; Board Member and Marketing Work Group Chair, AIMS. “ITDev’s FPGA design expertise supports the engineering work behind IPMX, while Bolin’s experience building PTZ cameras for broadcast and live production gives us a direct line into how these standards perform in the field. Adding their perspectives helps us keep IPMX grounded in real deployment needs as adoption continues to grow.”

Bolin Technology designs professional PTZ cameras and AV-over-IP solutions built for real-world production environments. Drawing on decades of experience in video technology, the company develops indoor and outdoor PTZ systems along with supporting hardware that work across modern IP workflows, including NDI, Dante AV and Fast HEVC.

Bolin's cameras are used by broadcasters, live event teams, sports venues, houses of worship and corporate production groups that require dependable performance, flexible connectivity and consistent image quality.

“Our focus has always been on where professional video is going next and building the products and technologies that help move it forward,” said Sapan Doshi, chief product & revenue officer at Bolin Technology. “As IP continues to reshape broadcast and Pro AV, we see IPMX and ST2110 as important parts of that future. Joining AIMS allows us to take an active role in advancing that ecosystem, bringing what we learn from real-world production into the conversation while helping drive broader adoption of open, interoperable workflows. We’re excited to work alongside AIMS and its members to turn that vision into solutions that can be adopted and deployed across the industry.”

ITDev is an Altera and AMD design services and FPGA IP partner that helps customers accelerate FPGA-powered product development from concept to market.

Its IP portfolio includes solutions for IPMX, along with ST 2110 and video processing, backed by end-to-end embedded systems engineering across architecture, software, FPGA development, and system integration.

“IPMX adoption depends on manufacturers having a practical, well-supported path to implementation, and that's exactly where ITDev fits in," said Phil Chilton, commercial manager of ITDev. “Being part of AIMS lets us stay closely aligned with the standard as it evolves, so we can keep helping customers move from concept to certified product with confidence. We're glad to be working alongside the rest of the alliance on that effort.”

ITDev and Bolin Technology join a growing roster of broadcast and Pro AV companies working within AIMS to advance IPMX and support the industry's transition from proprietary, point-to-point systems to open, standards-based IP media networking.

More information about AIMS and its work is available at www.aimsalliance.org.

NEW YORK—Law&Crime Network said it has migrated its Court TV channel, which is distributed via broadcast and free, ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channels, onto Amagi’s CLOUDPORT cloud-based operations platform.

After acquiring Court TV from E.W. Scripps in February, Law&Crime began migrating the network’s operations in-house. Law&Crime had five months to complete the transition without disrupting a programming schedule built around real-time breaking news.

The move to CLOUDPORT replaces a patchwork of manual, disconnected systems with a single automated cloud platform, giving viewers more reliable access to Court TV’s live and breaking-news coverage across broadcast, streaming and connected TV.

Amagi’s cloud-native platform enabled Law&Crime to modernize Court TV’s infrastructure quickly while avoiding the equipment delays typically associated with traditional broadcast transitions. The vendor also developed custom automation to support key operational workflows to help ensure Court TV’s breaking coverage remained uninterrupted throughout the transition. Court TV’s live operations are now managed through Amagi Intella, the company’s AI-powered managed services platform.

Court TV broadcasts about 10 hours of live programming each weekday, which is automatically repackaged into weekend syndication without manual rebuilding. Before the channel went live on the new platform, Amagi tested each playlist, metadata feed and distribution endpoint against Court TV’s prior setup.

When Law&Crime flagged late-stage readiness concerns, Amagi added support, including 10 days of hands-on care, and sent an on-site onboarding specialist for the first week. As a result, Court TV moved across every downstream platform with no disruption to live service.

“We had five months to take on Court TV and no room for downtime,” Law&Crime Chief Technology Officer Debasish Mishra said. “A migration this complex is never trouble-free. What mattered was having a partner who understood the assignment, adjusted when the plan needed to change and kept working the problem with us until we were across the finish line. We came out of it with origination infrastructure that scales as our footprint grows across broadcast, FAST and streaming so we can keep delivering our content to viewers the best way possible.”

More information is available on the Amagi website.

Broadcast Management Group has designed and deployed a custom REMI production ecosystem for The Pro Tour, a new professional golf tour featuring elite athletes from some of the world’s biggest sports leagues including the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL.

LiveU’s LU800 field units and LIQ intelligent connectivity served as key components within BMG’s broader production workflow. The setup gave camera operators the freedom of movement and a new view from the green that has always been challenging to achieve, while eliminating the cost constraints, environmental strain, and access limitations of legacy OB trucks.

As the tour’s turnkey broadcast partner, BMG provided creative services, live production, engineering, transmission, media management, and distribution for each five-hour live broadcast.

During a stop at the PGA National Resort in West Palm Beach last spring, BMG was faced with covering a crucial hole that had reportedly never been televised because it fell outside the venue’s fixed fiber infrastructure, according to the company.

In response, BMG implemented a nearly fully wireless production workflow using LiveU LU800 bonded cellular transmission systems enhanced by LiveU IQ intelligent connectivity. Starlink was ready as backup connectivity, though according to BMG, never had to be deployed. This meant that the technical director, master control, and channel management team could work from home or the NOC.

The hybrid workflow dramatically shrunk the production footprint compared to a traditional cable-and-truck build, with more cameras able to cover more of the course because they’re no longer limited by where fiber happens to run, BMG said. Every camera, including drone coverage, transmitted live feeds to BMG’s Network Operations Center (NOC), where AI continuously monitored available network conditions and automatically optimized connectivity across multiple cellular networks.

“The Pro Tour let us design a broadcast ecosystem from the ground up, built around where the story was, not where cable could reach,” said Kathy Samuels, BMG’s director of creative services. “LiveU's LU800, and LIQ intelligent connectivity gave our creative vision somewhere to actually run. Bringing creative services, live production, engineering, and distribution into one workflow gave us a scalable model that supports the tour today and can grow with it.”

STOCKHOLM—Net Insight has been selected to provide its Nimbra platform by the service provider Big Blue Marble, formerly ORS Group, as the core media transport solution for a new nationwide IP contribution network for the public broadcaster ORF in Austria.

The rollout was carried out in close collaboration with local partner TV-Connect.

ORF’s decision to upgrade to Big Blue Marble’s new IP media network stems from the need to replace a legacy SDI-based infrastructure with a scalable, future-proof IP contribution solution. The deployment connects ORF’s headquarters and an additional production facility in Vienna to all nine regional production studios, one in each of Austria’s federal states.

“This modernization project strengthens our ability to meet evolving production demands, while ensuring reliability and seamless integration across IP and SDI environments,” says Norbert Grill, CTO at Big Blue Marble. “Thanks to the joint support from Net Insight and TV-Connect, we’re able to deliver a robust solution across our entire national footprint.”

The new network is built around the Nimbra 1000 and Nimbra 600 platforms, supporting high-quality ST 2110 workflows for both video and audio, while also enabling seamless interoperability with SDI environments through integrated legacy conversion. Key features include full NMOSbased control and orchestration, allowing the broadcaster to integrate media flow management with their existing control systems for streamlined operation and increased agility across production sites.

“This deployment is a clear example of our strategic and focused investment in the growing IP-based media market,” said Andreas Eriksson, CEO of Net Insight. “It underlines our strong position in IP-based solutions and our ability to deliver high performance, scalable workflows that meet evolving customer demands. Together with Big Blue Marble and TV-Connect, this project reflects the trust placed in our technology and our commitment to collaborative partnerships that drive transformation in media transport.”

For more information, please visit netinsight.net.

LONDON—Techex, a specialist in live IP video transport, has tapped Stuart Almond as chief revenue officer.

In his new role, Almond is tasked with driving Techex’s business strategy and development initiatives and supporting its continued expansion as broadcasters and content owners transition to dynamic, cloud-native production environments, the company said.

A 25-year industry veteran, Almond brings experience spanning technology, media and telecommunications, Techex said. He has held senior leadership positions with such companies as Qvest, Microsoft and Sony Professional Solutions Europe.

Techex develops software-defined live IP video transport, transformation and monitoring solutions for Tier-1 broadcasters and media companies. Its specialized software stack—including its tx edge gateway and tx darwin processing framework—enables secure, low-latency live video routing across uncompressed IP, managed wide area networks and public cloud environments.

For more information, visit the Techex website.

Devoncroft’s 2026 Big Broadcast Survey (BBS) of global media tech buyers has once again ranked `IP Networking & Content Delivery’ as the top media tech trend.

Reflecting the ongoing transition to IP technologies, the result marked the sixth consecutive year (and for the seventh time in eight years) that `IP Networking & Content Delivery’ was the top trend.

Devoncroft researchers noted, however, that the margin between the top trend and the second ranked trend of ‘AI / ML / GenAI’ technologies narrowed versus 2025 BBS Global Trend Index.

‘AI / ML / GenAI’ has received a ranking of second since the 2023 BBS Global Trend Index, according to Josh Stinehour in a blog post announcing the results.

“One of the key outputs from the BBS is the annual BBS Global Trend Index,” he noted. “This is a ranking of the media industry trends that are considered by technology end-user respondents the most commercially important to their businesses in the next 2-3 years. In the 2026 survey efforts, we presented BBS respondents with a list of 23 industry trends and asked them to select the one trend that is `most important’ to their business, one trend that is `second most important’ to their business, and the other trends (plural) they consider `also very important.’

The BBS is the largest annual global study of media technology industry trends, technology purchasing plans, and benchmarking of technology vendor brands.

REMI came in number three, followed by multiplatform content delivery and automated operations, rounding out the top five.

The study reported the following ranking:

More data and information from the study is available here.

Check out TV Tech's extensive IP and Networking coverage here.

SÃO PAULO—TVU Networks and DTV Innovations have formed a strategic technology integration aimed at giving broadcasters an efficient and scalable alternative to traditional satellite distribution and are showcasing their solution here at SET Expo 2026, Aug. 17-20, at Distrito Anhembi.

The solution directly responds to an industry-wide demand for modernized, highly efficient IP distribution architectures.

In March 2026, TVU Networks announced a partnership with Reuters to execute a phased migration from satellite to a cloud-native, IP-based live news distribution model powered by TVU MediaHub and TVU NOC.

The TVU and DTV Innovations integration extends this same cloud-first methodology to the receiver edge, traditionally the segment most dependent on fixed hardware and satellite infrastructure.

The integration aligns directly with TVU's ongoing strategic push to establish IP as the primary broadcast distribution architecture. The FCC’s recent vote to recover 160 MHz of additional C-band spectrum for 5G/6G use has accelerated broadcast strategies toward resilient, redundant, cloud-based IP distribution models delivering operational savings.

The joint architecture seamlessly bridges key points across the signal distribution workflow, including edge reception and conversion, native ecosystem integration and cloud-based routing and multi-point delivery.

DTV Innovations provides professional receiver hardware deployed at affiliate stations, regional broadcasters or remote sites. A dedicated Software Development Kit (SDK) supporting TVU's proprietary ISX protocol is embedded directly into DTV Innovations decoders. Signals are fed into TVU MediaHub, TVU's cloud routing platform, enabling flexible point-to-multipoint distribution from a single source to multiple destinations at the same time.

The joint architecture eliminates reliance on legacy routing hardware, enables broadcasters to scale receiver endpoints dynamically, and reduces transport and operating costs.

See TVU Networks and DTV Innovations in the CIS Group SET Expo booth, number 38A.

More information is available on the TVU Networks, DTV Innovations and CIS Group websites.

MONTREAL—Grass Valley will demonstrate the principles of the Dynamic Media Facility, bringing hardware, software-defined applications, existing infrastructure and partner technologies together as one unified media operation during IBC2026, Sept. 11-14, at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Center.

Through its active support of the JT-DMF industry initiative and the open standards that will underpin the Dynamic Media Facility, the company will feature a complete, camera-to-consumer workflow while demonstrating how Grass Valley AMPP will continue to adopt DMF-aligned standards.

The demonstration will feature Grass Valley hardware, including LDX cameras, its latest Altair router and the new ACE-3901-GRID MXL gateway, with AMPP OS-based applications as an end-to-end media workflow.

ACE-3901-GRID bridges existing SDI and SMPTE ST 2110 infrastructure with software-defined workflows, while AMPP provides the orchestration, media fabric and scalable compute needed to deploy applications across on-premises, edge and cloud environments.

This hybrid-by-design approach allows media organizations to introduce software-defined production alongside the infrastructure, workflows and operational expertise already delivering value. Dedicated systems continue to provide predictable performance for live operations, while AMPP-based applications add flexibility and scalable processing where required.

Grass Valley said openness is a core principle of its strategy. AMPP allows users to combine technologies from Grass Valley its partners around their operational requirements without creating another closed production environment.

Native support for the Media eXchange Layer (MXL) extends this approach by providing software media functions with a shared method for accessing and exchanging media. It replaces application-specific approaches to media transport, conversion and integration.

At IBC2026, Grass Valley will demonstrate native MXL v1.1 support in AMPP and the latest NMOS implementations for MXL flow discovery and control.

The showcase also reflects the accelerating growth of the Grass Valley partner ecosystem. Technologies from Calrec, Lawo, Haivision, TVU Networks and Zoom will operate alongside Grass Valley solutions within real-world, multi-vendor workflows.

The company’s booth will serve as a connected production environment, demonstrating how SDI, SMPTE ST 2110, and MXL support different parts of a modern media workflow.

Visitors will see these technologies working together across live production, networking, processing, monitoring, content workflows, orchestration and automation. Grass Valley production switchers will extend familiar control surfaces across hardware and software-defined environments, while ACE-3901-GRID will connect established facility infrastructure with MXL-native applications in AMPP.

The showcase will include reverse REMI production and the remote operation of a software-defined OB truck in partnership with DMC Production and Broadcast Solutions.

See Grass Valley at IBC2026, stand 9.A01.

More information is available on the company’s website.

A PBS station in St. Louis is taking a data center provider to court to retrieve what the station says is “more than 70 years of history.”

In a lawsuit filed with the Denver District Court against Iron Mountain Data Centers in late July, Nine PBS (KETC) says that Iron Mountain is refusing to release more than 50 TB of archived programming housed at Iron Mountain's data center in Denver. According to the lawsuit, Open Source Storage, the cloud service hosting the archives, went out of business earlier this year and shut off Nine PBS’s access to its material.

Iron Mountain says since OSS owned “the physical services housing the data,” it would not return access to the archives to Nine PBS, according to a story in Current.

The district court judge granted Nine PBS’s request to prevent Iron Mountain from deleting, modifying or overwriting the archives and a hearing was held on Wednesday.

In a statement to Current, Nine PBS Vice President and Chief Content Officer Leah Freemansaid the broadcaster is “committed to ensuring we can recover and restore full access to this valuable content, which Nine PBS rightfully owns, as it holds significant historical importance for St. Louis.”

Nine PBS had a contract with OSS (identified in the lawsuit as OSS’ predecessor’) starting in 2019 and said in its lawsuit that it had not received any response from OSS earlier this year when it attempted to renew its contract for 2026. Although the contract required 30 days notice before termination, the lawsuit claims that OSS abruptly ended Nine PBS’s access to its archives on March 6 and that it was only after this that the broadcaster discovered that the cloud provider had gone out of business.

Iron Mountain told TV Tech that it "has acted appropriately and responsibly at every step to safeguard customer data and honor our contractual commitments to OSS. Throughout this process, we have been transparent with Nine PBS about our role in this dispute, that we do not have access to their data, and we have made consistent efforts to help them resolve the issue."

BOTHELL, Wash.—The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) and the Video Services Forum (VSF) have announced the full IP Showcase on the Water presentation schedule taking place during IBC2026.

The free, one-day event will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 13, on canal cruise boats launching from Strandzuid at the RAI in Amsterdam. Complimentary registration is now open to reserve a seat for any of the seven one-hour cruises.

Each cruise will accommodate up to 35 attendees and feature two 20-minute sessions from industry experts, for a total of 14 presentations on a wide range of IP-related topics. In addition, the IP Showcase partners are again sponsoring the decodeTV Green Line — an initiative aimed at promoting more sustainable travel to IBC.

The IP Showcase, which is committed to educating attendees at major industry events on the business and creative potential of IP media solutions, said that this year’s event will include presentations by top speakers from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Appear, BFE Studio und Medien Systeme GmbH, Grass Valley, Imagine Communications, Lawo, Matrox Video, NSI2 Consulting, NVIDIA, PlexusAV, Skyline Communications, intoPIX, and Ross Video.

“At IBC2026, the IP Showcase on the Water gives attendees direct access to the experts who are advancing media workflows through open standards,” said Andrew Starks, director of product management at Macnica and AIMS board member. “This year's presentations highlight the technologies and collaborative innovations shaping our industry, from Dynamic Media Facility (DMF) and orchestration to AI, security, cloud technologies, and IPMX certification. By bringing together industry leaders from across the media technology ecosystem, the program provides practical perspectives on how open standards are helping broadcasters and Pro AV professionals build more connected, flexible, and interoperable workflows.”

The IP Showcase on the Water session topics include:

• Session 1 and Session 2 – MXL & Dynamic Media Facilities
• Session 3 – Managing Dynamic Media Facilities
• Session 4 – Troubleshooting & Cyber Resilience
• Session 5 – Control Planes for AI & Cloud
• Session 6 – IPMX Case Studies & Certification
• Session 7 – Cameras, GPUs & Open Control

Boats will be departing on the hour from Strandzuid, located near RAI Amsterdam at Europaplein 22, 1078 GZ Amsterdam. The current IP Showcase on the Water presentation schedule is available online here. Attendees can register for free here.

In addition to presenting the IP Showcase on the Water, AIMS and the VSF are sponsoring the decodeTV Green Line to IBC2026. Setting out from London, the Green Line offers IBC attendees a low-carbon direct route to Amsterdam, as well as an afternoon of networking and socializing with fellow industry professionals — all while honoring a commitment to creating a more sustainable media and entertainment industry. This year, the Green Line will depart from London’s St. Pancras Station on Thurs, Sept. 10, 2026 and roll into Amsterdam Centraal Station just over 4 hours later.

“As we return as sponsors of the decodeTV Green Line for a second consecutive year, we're reaffirming our commitment to helping build a more sustainable future for the media industry," added Starks. "The Green Line is a creative and practical initiative that demonstrates how small changes can make a meaningful difference in reducing our industry's environmental impact. Beyond providing a lower-carbon way to travel to IBC, it brings people together to exchange ideas and reinforces the spirit of collaboration that drives innovation across both the broadcast and Pro AV communities."

EMERYVILLE, Calif.—Systems integrator Advanced Systems Group has tapped Eran Binyamin Zeitoun as senior technical program manager, tasked with leading a new business focused on enterprise media asset and storage systems, newsroom computer systems (NRCs) and media infrastructure solutions for broadcasters and media companies.

He joins ASG after 27 years with Dalet Digital Media Systems, where he was senior infrastructure and solution architect.

"Throughout my career, I've always enjoyed partnering with clients to solve complex technical challenges and helping them build solutions that make their organizations more successful," Zeitoun said. "When I spoke with [ASG Director, Enterprise Storage and Systems] Macky Beheshti and [CEO] Dave Van Hoy, I immediately recognized ASG's collaborative, client-first culture. It reminded me of what I valued most early in my career."

In his new role, Zeitoun will provide technical strategy, solution architecture, program management and client engagement to help customers design and deploy scalable, future-ready media workflows, ASG said.

At Dalet, Zeitoun designed and validated enterprise media and IT solutions for top broadcasters and media organizations worldwide, according to ASG.

“Eran has earned an exceptional reputation throughout the media industry for his technical expertise, integrity, and unwavering commitment to client success," said Beheshti, to whom Zeitoun will report. "His ability to bridge complex technology with real-world business needs makes him an outstanding addition to the team. As we continue expanding our enterprise media consulting capabilities, Eran will help ASG clients confidently navigate evolving workflows, modernize their infrastructure, and maximize the value of their technology investments."

Zeitoun can be reached at eran@asgllc.com.

WALTHAM, Mass.—Alyson Stewart has joined IP video transport software provider Zixi as senior director, sales.

In her new role, Stewart will be tasked with driving direct sales and partnerships with broadcasters, media companies and other enterprise clients in the media and entertainment industry. She’ll be responsible for growing new business across Zixi’s direct sales channel, strengthening go-to-market partnerships and supporting customers in their transition of live video workflows to IP-based delivery, the company said.

She joins Zixi from Hydrolix, where she helped establish that company’s enterprise direct sales and partner go-to-market functions.

“Alyson brings exactly the kind of experience and relationships we need as we scale our direct sales and partner motion,” Zixi CEO Marc Aldlrich said. “She has spent her career entrenched in the worlds of media and technology, and her deep understanding of both the programming and operational sides of this business will be a real asset to our customers and our team. I’ve had the privilege of working alongside Alyson before, and I know firsthand the value she brings.”

A 20-year industry veteran, Stewart worked for five years in the Media, Entertainment, Games & Sports business at Amazon Web Services (AWS) before Hydrolix. She was also senior VP, global sales, strategy and operations at Gravitas Ventures, an independent film distributor; senior VP of sales for Mediamorph, a media-rights management firm; and worked for 13 years as a sales executive at VOD content services provider Vubiquity, as well as at Starz, The Weather Channel and Turner Broadcasting System.

“I’ve long admired the strength of the Zixi platform and the role it plays in live media workflows,” Stewart said. “I’m excited to join the team and help our customers navigate the shift to IP-based video delivery.”

AMSTERDAM—At IBC 2026, the Advanced Media Workflow Association (AMWA) has announced a joint initiative with the EBU to bring together leading broadcast technology suppliers to demonstrate interoperable implementations of NMOS BCP-008 Minimum Status Reporting.

The specification is designed to give operators a consistent view of device health across multi-vendor IP environments and help them identify the problems.

“The broadcast industry has always made its greatest progress through collaboration. These demonstrations show what's possible when vendors, end users, and integrators come together around open specifications to solve real operational challenges,” said Brad Gilmer, executive director of AMWA. “BCP-008 gives broadcasters a practical, standardized way to understand what's happening across multi-vendor IP facilities, helping them operate those facilities with greater confidence. Leading manufacturers demonstrating interoperable implementations together at IBC is an important milestone for our industry."

Presented live on the EBU stand (10.D21) during the show between Sept. 11 and 14, the demos will show products from multiple vendors reporting status consistently across a multi-vendor IP environment.

By giving operators a common view of device health, BCP-008 can help them distinguish urgent problems from routine conditions and resolve issues faster.

"These demonstrations aren't simply about showing technology," said Stefan Ledergerber, NMOS Control project lead and CEO of Simplexity. "They're about demonstrating that multi-vendor interoperability is real, practical, and ready for deployment."

Participating companies include:

• Arkona
• DirectOut
• EVS
• Leader
• Nevion
• Pebble
• Providius
• Riedel
• Simplexity
• Sony

The companies have spent months preparing their BCP-008 implementations to work together. Before IBC, they will convene at EVS's facilities in Belgium for an intensive, hands-on interoperability event, where they will validate the implementations before taking them live in Amsterdam.

"To have products from each of these participating companies implementing BCP-008 at once is the largest commitment to NMOS since the introduction of IS-04 and IS-05," said Ledergerber. "It shows the necessity of status reporting within our industry. We should applaud these manufacturers for having a vision for an interoperable, open, and flexible future of IP and for bringing that vision to reality."

BCP-008 complements NMOS connection management by giving devices from different vendors a standardized way to communicate operational status. Because the end device is best positioned to recognize when it is not operating correctly, the approach helps operators distinguish conditions requiring action from routine status information.

"The industry hasn’t yet mastered the complexity of ST 2110, much less DMF. Training broadcast engineers to become IT experts doesn't scale. BCP-008 is an important ingredient to scale," added Ledergerber. At IBC, visitors will see systems respond to packet loss, link disconnects, packet jitter, PTP grandmaster changes, stream validation errors, and other common operational errors.

Additional information and BCP-008 developer resources are available at: www.amwa.tv/post/developer-resources-nmos-bcp-008-minimum-status-reporting

ATLANTA—At the 2026 IBC Show, Sept. 11-14 in Amsterdam, swXtch.io will launch groundSwXtch for Audio over IP (AoIP), a software application that lets broadcasters and media organizations move audio in all major AoIP formats, including Ravenna, AES67 and ST 2110-30, between facilities and into the cloud over standard IP networks, including the public internet.

The application achieves this without codec hardware and without reconfiguring switches or routers to support multicast. By carrying audio in its native, uncompressed form end to end, groundSwXtch preserves bit-identical quality while removing the encode/decode latency, hardware cost and deployment complexity that come with traditional AoIP transport, according to the company.

Unlike current methods, which mostly rely on dedicated codec pairs to move audio between facilities by compressing, transporting over a standard connection and decoding on arrival, groundSwXtch removes that step by carrying the existing multicast AoIP streams on a facility's network across the connecting network (WAN, 5G or public internet) through a centrally managed software overlay.

A lightweight application on standard hardware/servers or virtual machines forms the overlay and moves native AoIP traffic across existing IP infrastructure, including over switches and routers that were never configured for multicast routing. Broadcasters connect studios, production centers, remote facilities and data centers into one unified fabric without touching physical network hardware, with built-in packet protection for hybrid links including SMPTE ST 2022-7 hitless failover, and a single-pane view of every flow, according to swXtch.io.

Because groundSwXtch shares its core architecture with swXtch.io's cloudSwXtch platform, the two can be paired to extend the same multicast fabric into the cloud—giving broadcasters one hybrid network spanning on-premises and cloud environments rather than separate ground and cloud workflows.

Timing accuracy across that fabric is maintained through integrated clock synchronization including support for PTP, preserving the accuracy required for live production, intercom systems and distributed audio mixing. Because groundSwXtch transports AoIP streams natively in their original format, with no compression or transcoding at any point, audio arrives exactly as it left the source.

swXtch.io has validated groundSwXtch with broadcast and professional audio partners across live sports and remote event production, intercom connectivity between facilities, distributed audio mixing, remote production for entertainment venues, and radio workflows linking studios, newsrooms and regional bureaus into a single software-defined audio network.

"For decades, the industry has focused on making audio codecs faster and more efficient," said Brent Yates, CEO of swXtch.io. "We took a different approach by asking whether broadcasters need codecs at all. If audio already exists as native AoIP and we provide an IP network that can transport it reliably, removing that encode-and-decode layer simplifies infrastructure, lowers costs and preserves the integrity of the original signal. groundSwXtch allows broadcasters to move audio exactly as it was created while making distributed production far easier to deploy and scale."

swXtch.io will demonstrate groundSwXtch for Audio over IP during IBC2026 in meeting room 5.MR13 (Hall 5) in the RAI Amsterdam.