Key audio themes at NAB 2025 remain persistently familiar – remote workflows, distributed teams, and ultra-efficiency… and of course AI. These themes have been around for a long time now but the audio community always seems to find very new ways of delivering, so expect innovation a plenty on the show floor.
Utah Scientific has announced the launch of On-Ramp, a rack-mountable device that integrates with routing systems to ease the difficult and expensive process of transferring broadcast and live production operations from SDI signals to IP. With On-Ramp, broadcasters can adopt a hybrid of IP and SDI signals (12G UHD, 3G HD, and 1.5G) for a gradual transfer to IP, thereby extending the life of their current equipment, curbing future costs, and easing burdens on staff.
With a mission of providing smaller, smarter and simpler IP core infrastructure solutions for broadcast productions of all sizes, arkona technologies is bringing its BLADE//runner product suite to NAB 2025 with significant upgrades including enhancements to the EASY-IP solution as well as the introduction of the new JXS16 App with the highest density of UHD JPEG-XS codecs on the market.
Synamedia, a provider of video software solutions, has announced the launch of Quortex Switch, a next-generation SaaS-based multi-CDN management tool designed to optimize streaming costs, quality and reliability.
NEP Group, a leading media services provider for sports and entertainment worldwide, announce its latest innovations and technology investments supporting broadcasters, rightsholders, leagues and content creators around the world.
AJA Video Systems unveil BRIDGE LIVE 3G-8, a new addition to its production-proven family of streaming and IP video solutions. Featuring eight bi-directional 3G-SDI connectors in a 1RU form factor, BRIDGE LIVE 3G-8 doubles the 3G-SDI I/O capabilities of AJA’s BRIDGE LIVE. With an expanded channel count to provide video professionals with enhanced flexibility, the new solution decreases per channel costs for customers, while providing reliable encoding, decoding, and transcoding for critical live video environments.
The technology required to get high quality content from the venue to the viewer for live sports production remains an area of intense research and development, so there will be plenty of innovation and expertise in this area on the NAB 2025 show floor.
In the evolving world of audiovisual technology, the shift to Audio over IP (AoIP) is revolutionizing how we transmit and manage sound. AoIP refers to the technology used to transmit high-quality audio over standard IP networks, eliminating the need for traditional audio cables and providing an efficient, scalable, and cost-effective solution for modern audio distribution. This advancement offers significant advantages in terms of flexibility, interoperability, and ease of deployment, making it a key technology for industries such as live sound, broadcasting, film production, corporate AV, and more.
