Recognising the wide acceptance and use of NDI as a practical solution for transmitting video over IP, Caton Technology, a provider of next-generation IP network transport solutions, has produced a new software application for collaborative and remote workflows.
Allowing users to move and share high-resolution files far beyond their local network, simply and intuitively, the Caton NDI Gateway is a software-based connectivity platform that uses unique algorithms and AI-enhanced forward error correction to provide high bandwidth-efficiency and secure delivery.
Powered by Caton Transport Protocols (CTP) and CatonNet Video Platform (CVP), the NDI Gateway eliminates reliance on Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), providing a practical means to transmit NDI output over typical internet connections.
Caton NDI Gateway provides bi-directional operation, so a single user can both send and receive high-quality NDI signals. The simple user interface makes it easy to transmit from NDI sources or auto-discover NDI output sources, and set the transmit and receive parameters for the CTP transport stream at up to 50 Mbps.
Caton recently demonstrated the capabilities of Caton NDI Gateway in a typical remote production configuration with a BirdDog P400 pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera.
The camera was positioned in Caton’s Hong Kong office and connected to a Mac Mini M1 running the Caton NDI Gateway software. The NDI stream was then transmitted to Caton’s CVP Hong Kong point of presence (PoP), and from there to the Singapore PoP, and on to the Caton office in Singapore, where another Mac decoded the stream and output NDI for local viewing.
Gerald Wong, Senior Vice-President, Global Operations, Caton Technology, said, “Caton NDI Gateway fully realises the goal of free-flowing video beyond the LAN, effectively reducing latency across NDI transmissions.
“It is exactly the solution that NDI users need to create efficient and cost-effective NDI workflows for remote operations.”