At IBC 2026, TAG Video Systems will be announcing the latest innovations to its platform that support the emerging MXL standard and containerised deployment. TAG's latest platform innovations focus on flexible, deploy-anywhere software and on the emerging standards that make cloud production real. For instance, both the Multi-Channel Monitoring (MCM) and Media Control System (MCS) components of its platform are not available as a Docker container, enabling fully automated, on-demand deployment across cloud and virtualised infrastructure.
As one of the first to support Media eXchange Layer (MXL) workflows and to present a full MXL implementation, TAG will demonstrate MXL interoperability with AWS and will present a new collaborative MXL demo with Sony.
Latency on ST 2110 streams has been reduced to as low as 1.5 frames at 50fps and 2 frames at 59.94fps, while Cyclic Intra Refresh (CIR) encoding on MCM output makes it practical to monitor and quality-control content inside live and cloud production workflows, not just downstream.
Support for the Mellanox ConnectX-7 network card enables monitoring of 200Gbps and 400Gbps links, and supports scaling to multiple ST 2110 video streams. This, according to TAG, highlights how software can meet the most demanding, high-density uncompressed environments.
Michael Demb, VP of Product Strategy, TAG Video Systems, added, “Our customers are re-architecting how they produce content. They're moving off dedicated hardware, into containers, into the cloud, with open approaches like MXL leading the way.
“For their operations, that means monitoring that spins up anywhere and scales to formats and volumes that used to require a truckload of appliances.
“It also brings a meaningful reduction in the hardware footprint that used to define the cost of doing this. At IBC, we're showing exactly what that looks like live: software-defined monitoring, at scale, with none of the dedicated boxes.”
TAG Video Systems will be at booth 1.D33 during IBC2026, which is taking place from September 11-14 at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Centre.
