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  • Harman Plays Host To Fifth AVnu Alliance AVB Plugfest For Audio Video Interoperability And Performance

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    Underscoring the increasing progress that the audio-video manufacturing community is

    making in arriving at working AVB solutions, AVnu Alliance hosted an AVB plugfest last

    week at Harman Professional’s Signal Processing Group in Salt Lake City.  The AVnu

    Alliance is the industry forum dedicated to the advancement of professional-quality

    audio video by promoting the adoption of the IEEE 802.1 Audio Video Bridging (AVB)

    standards over various networking link-layers.  The plugfest — an invitation-only

    gathering of hardware manufacturers with near-market ready products —featured Harman

    and five other manufacturers testing interoperability and performance of AVB prototype

    technologies.  During the plugfest, engineers from the different companies had a rare

    hands-on opportunity to test connectivity, interoperability and interfaces.

     

    “The promise of AVB is universal connectivity with no performance compromises,” said

    Rob Urry, Harman Professional CTO, Vice President / GM Harman Professional Signal

    Processing Group.  “But to achieve this, all participants on the AVB network need to

    be able to connect and comprehensively test their technologies on the network.  The

    plugfest enabled this testing but also provided a platform for remarkable, valuable

    dialog between very smart, committed engineers from a host of companies.  We were

    very pleased to host this plugfest and to mark another important milestone in the

    advancement of AVB.”Echoing this sentiment, Lee Minich, Marketing Working Group

    Chair, AVnu Alliance, and President, Lab X Technologies, noted, “Communication —

    whether it’s for performance, commercial, medical or educational applications — is

    accelerated enormously by AV technologies.  In turn, AVB is already making AV

    communications more effective, more usable and more affordable than ever before.

    This transformative IEEE protocol is enabled by the AVnu Alliance companies who

    attend plugfests to share ideas and experiences.  Their communication at this event

    will eventually advance AV communications across our industry around the world.”

     

    As many of the products and technologies tested in the plugfest are still in the

    development phase, details of the participants and the technologies they tested must

    be retained until market-ready.  The fact that this is now the fifth successful AVB

    PlugFest is an indicator of the forward momentum.  The first AVnu Alliance AVB

    plugfest was also held at Harman Professional Signal Processing Group in Salt Lake

    City and featured technologies from four AVnu Alliance member companies.

     

     

     




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