BOTHELL, WA – Montreal-based Grass Valley is one of the founding members of the new Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS), an independent trade association founded to ensure that all IP solutions brought to market offer complete interoperability, are based on open standards, and will integrate seamlessly into broadcasters’ current workflow environments.
As broadcasters and other media companies look to use IP workflows to speed and streamline the movement and management of increasingly complex content and adapt their businesses to better compete with other content options such as over-the-top (OTT), open standards are the key to protecting current investments and ensuring long-term interoperability, reads Monday’s announcement.
The group’s efforts will be focused on promoting the adoption, standardization, development and refinement of open protocols for media over IP, with an initial emphasis on VSF TR-03 and TR-04, SMPTE 2022-6 and AES67.
Other AIMS founding members include Imagine Communications, Lawo, Snell Advanced Media and Nevion.
“With the IP transition, thanks to the collaborative work already done in SMPTE and VSF, our industry has the opportunity to avoid the mistakes of the past where multiple proprietary approaches were adopted, adding cost and complexity for everyone – such as in the tape and file format wars of a decade ago”, said Grass Valley strategic marketing SVP Mike Cronk, in the announcement. “AIMS is dedicated to an open standards approach and Grass Valley fully supports its mission."
Membership in AIMS is available to all individuals and companies that support open standards and share a commitment to the group’s founding principles.
