The ASPEN Community is proud to announce that it will have a booth at this year’s NAB 2024. Located in the North Hall (#N1000MR), the booth will host several members of the Community demonstrating interoperability of their ASPEN (SMPTE RDD37:2106) enabled products. The announcement of the demonstration at NAB 2024 is yet another to add to the long list of achievements for the Community. Since the start of the year, two major events (Super Bowl and NBA All-Star) have been produced using IP-based facilities utilizing ASPEN. With the recent publication of SMPTE RDD37, the ASPEN Community decided that NAB would be a perfect venue to demonstrate the progress of its efforts.
The ASPEN Community was formed at IBC 2024 on the basis to promote the benefits of an open-format within IP-based broadcast. The Community provides information exchange between end-users and manufacturers to adopt the open format framework across products and facilities.
ASPEN is an open framework that enables independent flows for video, audio, and metadata in an IP-based broadcast and media facility. ASPEN expands on the MPEG-2 Transport Stream (IEC 13818-1 or ITU-T Rec. H.222.0) standard to include uncompressed UHD/3G/HD/SD video over TS. The ASPEN framework also utilizes open standards for transporting audio (SMPTE ST 302) and metadata (SMPTE ST 2024). SMPTE 2024-2 is used to encapsulate the transport streams into IP.
Members of the ASPEN Community that will be participating in the booth demonstration include: Abekas, Embrionix, Evertz, Hitachi Kokusai Electric Limited Inc., Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd., PacketStorm, Ross Video, Sony, Tektronix, and Vizrt.
In anticipation of the ASPEN interoperability demonstration at NAB 2024, ASPEN Community members have taken the opportunity to share their contributions to the ASPEN Community Booth.
“At NAB 2024, we are proud to demonstrate working prototypes which transmit and receive ASPEN streams for interoperability with other ASPEN products at the ASPEN Community booth,” said Masakazu Yoshimoto, General Manager, Sony.
Abekas will demonstrate the Mira Production server with ASPEN I/O at NAB 2024. Abekas is committed to being on the forefront of IP video I/O and will offer the Tria clip server, as well as the Mira Replay and Production servers with ASPEN enabled I/O.
“Leading up to the 2024 NAB Show [Matrox] announced the X.mio3 IP multi-channel video I/O over 10GbE card with onboard video processing to help broadcast equipment manufacturers meet the challenges of the SDI to IP transition,” said Alberto Cieri, Senior Director of Sales and Marketing, Matrox Video. “This new card provides IP encapsulation of HD, 3G and 4K video for all emerging IP transport protocols while respecting traditional broadcast workflows. We’re excited that one of our long-time customers, Vizrt, will already be showing ASPEN working with Viz Engine, proving how easy the implementation to IP-based solutions is with Matrox.”
Through the collaborative efforts of its experienced and knowledgeable members from all aspects of the broadcast workflow, the ASPEN Community is dedicated to providing a comprehensive end-to-end IP solution today. Please visit the ASPEN Community booth at #N1000MR or Community members throughout LVCC.
Current members of the ASPEN Community include: Abekas, AJA Video Systems, Broadcast Pix, ChryonHego, Cinegy, CSP, Inc., Deltacast, Diversified Systems, Discovery Communications, Dome Productions, Edit Share, Embrionix, Evertz, FOR-A, Game Creek Video, Hitachi Kokusai Electric Limited Inc., Ikegami, I-MOVIX, LEADER Electronics Corp., Macnica America Inc., Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd., Myricom, NBC Sports Group, NEP Group Inc., Neutrik, Nextera Video, PacketStorm, PHABRIX, Pixel Power, Providius Corp, Ross Video, Sony, Streampunk Media, Tektronix, Time Warner Cable SportsNet, The Weather Channel, TV2, TVU Networks and Vizrt.
For more information on ASPEN and the ASPEN Community, please visit aspen-community.org and follow us on Twitter @ASPEN_Community
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