Evertz Launches New ASPEN Community Website

Evertz Technologies has launched a new ASPEN Community website. The ASPEN Community was developed in response to the strong interest and support of the ASPEN framework for IP networks.

The ASPEN Community can be found at www.aspen-community.com.

ASPEN, Adaptive Sample Picture ENcapsulation, has been developed as an open framework to build flexible, scalable, and highly efficient IP facilities.   ASPEN allows for video, audio and metadata to be on individual IP multicast streams to provide broadcasters complete flexibility for transport, production, and playout applications.   

The ASPEN Community, announced at IBC 2015, has been rapidly growing from its initial members who included Abekas, ChryonHego, Discovery Communications, Game Creek Video, Hitachi Kokusai Electric Limited Inc., NEP Group Inc., PacketStorm, Ross Video, Sony, Tektronix, Time Warner Cable SportsNet, and Vizrt.   With the strong industry interest regarding ASPEN, the ASPEN Community website will act as a portal of information.  The website will keep the industry updated on the progress of ASPEN development and deployment.

Macnica Americas, Inc. Becomes Member of the ASPEN Community
Macnica Americas, Inc. has become a member of the ASPEN Community. The ASPEN Community is a rapidly growing coalition of industry leading manufacturers and end users who are adopting the ASPEN framework for building state of the art IP facilities.

“By leveraging the mature and proven Transport Stream protocol, ASPEN provides a reliable and quick to market framework for transporting uncompressed media streams over IP Networks.  Macnica Americas is very pleased to be a part of the ASPEN Community and looks forward to enabling Broadcast IP facilities with this technology,” says Marc Levy, Macnica Americas CTO.

“We are extremely excited to have Macnica Americas as a member of the ASPEN Community.  With transition from SDI to IP as a major initiative in the industry, the ASPEN Community is providing the leadership for a common open framework for building IP facilities.  The addition of Macnica Americas brings an experienced voice to the Community,” says Mo Goyal, co-chairperson of the ASPEN Community.

Matrox Video Becomes Member of the ASPEN Community
The ASPEN Community is proud to announce that Matrox Video is the newest member of the rapidly grown ASPEN Community.  The ASPEN Community is a coalition of industry leading manufacturers and end users who are adopting the ASPEN framework for building state of the art IP facilities.

“As a leading supplier of board-level technology and comprehensive SDKs to broadcast equipment manufacturers, Matrox is committed to providing the fundamental components needed for the SDI-to-IP transition,” said Alberto Cieri, senior director of sales and marketing, Matrox Video. “Our OEMs will soon be able to capitalize on the advantages of ASPEN as they create next-generation broadcast graphics systems, capture/playout servers and channel-in-a-box systems for IP-based facilities.”

“We are thrilled to welcome Matrox Video into the ASPEN Community.  Matrox Video is the first board-level supplier joining the ASPEN Community.   With this addition, we can assist other manufacturers to launch products that support ASPEN,” says Mo Goyal, co-chairperson of the ASPEN Community.