Lawo has unveiled its new .edge IP video infrastructure platform, which offers a compact 2RU housing that accommodates up to four 25/100 GbE .edge processing blades and rear I/O blades with best-in-class signal conversion density.
Each rear I/O blade provides 48 HD-BNC connectors for SD/HD/3G/UHD SDI interfacing, resulting in 192 SDI/IP conversions per 2RU; moreover, .edge provides full support for the SMPTE ST2110 suite of standards with ST2022-7 redundancy built in, providing not only advanced essence-based handling but also ensuring protection switching of audio, video and ancillary data streams in both local and wide-area network operations.
Phil Myers, Lawo’s CTO, explained, “.edge complements Lawo’s established V__matrix video processing and multi-viewer solution with a hyper-density SDI/IP gateway.
“It is designed from the ground up to be a HOME-native client. It is automatically discovered and registered within our HOME network environment and benefits from all of HOME’s next-generation management features – user access control, quarantining of unknown devices, network security, parameter tweaking and real-time health monitoring.”
HOME is a management platform offered by Lawo for IP-based media infrastructures, and is designed to connect, manage, and secure all aspects and instances of live production environments.
Andreas Hilmer, Lawo’s Chief Marketing Officer, added, “After migrating to an .edge/HOME router replacement solution, you can do more: you then have an SDI router that can scale according to your needs.
“If your requirements grow, you can just connect more .edge I/Os to your network switch. Since your core routing system is now based on IP, your router doesn’t have to stand like a monolith in one place.
“Users can distribute their .edge routing infrastructure across multiple facilities, across the country or even across continents.”
