Cobalt’s award-winning products for today & tomorrow IP infrastructure

Cobalt Digital’s platform is packed with ultra-flexible award-winning products that target a wide variety of applications ranging from today’s AV audio needs to tomorrow’s IP infrastructure.

The COBALT® ARIA OG-AUD4-DANTE is an award-winning openGear® card that accommodates applications from broadcast to Pro AV. The ARIA OG-AUD4-DANTE offers dual and quad-channel units with up to 12G DANTE/AES/MADI/Embed and De-Embed functions with Frame Sync capabilities.

The NAB Product of the Year card features two gigabit Ethernet ports, a 32×32 or 64×64 configuration, and a full audio router mixer.

Cobalt is also offering the DANTE capability on its 9904-UDX/9905-MPx processing cards for maximum functionality and flexibility.

In September, Cobalt UltraBlue IP-MV multiviewer won the IBC Best of Show award.It can be provided as a turnkey solution with four HDMI heads, or as a software package to run on customer-supplied dedicated hardware, delivering maximum flexibility.

The award-winning product features include support for receiving audio/video content over IP across a variety of protocols and formats with very flexible audio routing, bringing a multitude of options to suit every application.

Cobalt also has a lineup that includes SDI multiviewers in openGear form factor.

Cobalt now offers a simplified path to IP though its INDIGO family. Another IBC award-winning product, the COBALT® INDIGO OG-2110-BIDI4-GATEWAY, is a bi-directional quad-channel native ST 2110 interface to SDI I/O available in the openGear form factor.

The COBALT® INDIGO 2110-DC-01 is a factory add-on option for openGear® cards that adds native SMPTE 2110 support with 25G Ethernet interfaces and a complete native ST 2110 stack (including NMOS IS 04/05) to audio/video processing elements.

Meanwhile, Cobalt’s software definable encoding platform, COBALT® PACIFIC 9992-ENC-INDIGO openGear® card is incorporating INDIGO 2110-DC-02 to its existing PACIFIC 9992-ENC encoder card, and much more!

Another notable product is the COBALT® PACIFIC ULL-DEC HEVC upgradeable AVC/MPEG-2 software defined broadcast decoder openGear® card. The ultra low latency decoder won an NAB Product of the Year and IBC Best of Show as well. This professional multi-standard decoder is designed to meet the most stringent requirements for today’s broadcasters. It supports MPEG-2 and AVC (H.264), 4K support available, as well as offering a full complement of audio decoding capabilities. 

Shining brightly among Cobalt’s SAPPHIRE converter family is the ST 2110 Mini that  delivers high-quality design, function, and reliability (IPMX compliant), ideal for Pro AV.

These mini converters are intended to be mounted behind the monitor and include single or dual 25Gb/s ports (for ST 2022-7 redundancy) and full NMOS support for ease of configuration; models come in single to quad-channel units.