Five New Members Join AIMS

Five more companies have joined the Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) as associate members, the organisation has announced. The companies are Artel Video Systems, BFE Studio und Medien Systeme, Leader Electronics Corporation, Meinberg, and Pebble Beach Systems.

Artel Video Systems is a provider of broadcast-quality media transport solutions for direct fiber, IP, and managed optical networks. Artel developed the first commercially available video-over-fiber transport platform.

BFE Studio und Medien Systeme plan and realize studio systems, OB vans, and other media-technology systems. BFE implements individual and sector-specific solutions, but also develops and produces the entire KSC product line for the broadcast environment.

Leader Electronics Corporation develops, manufactures, and sells electronic measuring instruments in Japan and internationally. It offers RF level meter products, such as TV signal level meters and broadcast products including selection guides, optional accessories, display and measurement systems, loudness/audio monitors, waveform monitors/vector scopes, test signal generators/changeovers, and sync generators.

Meinberg develops and manufactures time and frequency synchronization solutions used in a range of industries and applications, including digital broadcasting and live IP audio/video production. By serving PTP and traditional genlock signals from a common time base, the company's GPS-synchronized grandmaster clocks could play a key role in a hybrid SDI/IP environment.

Pebble Beach Systems delivers automation, channel in a box, integrated, and virtualized playout technology, with scalable products designed for efficient multichannel transmission as well as complex news and sports television. Designed around a modular and scalable architecture, the company's automation solutions offer interfaces to legacy equipment and support new formats and technologies, such as IP delivery and interactive television.

Michael Cronk, AIMS Board Chair, said: "We are very pleased to welcome our new members to AIMS. More and more companies around the world are realizing the benefits of collaborating on a single set of standards-based IP protocols. The continual growth of AIMS membership increases momentum in the drive towards ubiquity and the implementation of practical solutions that enable the migration to all IP workflows."

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(JP/LM)