NEWS NEWPARTNERS
Williams Sound has appointed three new distributors – Prase Engineering (Italy), Scandec Systemer (Norway) and Brullov Consulting (Russia). Each will offer Williams Sound’s full line of wireless communication technology.
www.brullov.com/en www.prase.it www.scandecasystemer.no www.williamssound.com
CIE-Group has announced a UK distribution partnership with Prague-based 2N. The deal means 2N becomes the latest addition to the CIE-Group product portfolio, providing a range of IP-addressable audio, intercom and door entry systems for the professional AV, telecoms and security sectors.
www.2n.cz www.cie-group.com
AED Distribution has taken on the role of official distributor of Robert Juliat products for the Benelux region covering all markets.
www.aeddistribution.com www.robertjuliat.com
Alcons Audio has appointed FACE as its Pro-Ribbon Partner for the Netherlands. This means sales and support for the rental and installation market will be handled by the Dutch branch of FACE. To enable this, FACE has extended its team with Reinier Bruijns and Frank De Vos who will represent the Professional & Integration division in the Netherlands.
www.alconsaudio.com www.face.be
Cenique has named Stampede as a North American distributor of its IntelliSense digital signage product family.
www.cenique.com www.stampedeglobal.com
WORLD New AVB momentum, but AES67 shows promise
By David Davies AFTER A rather low-profile period, the audio-video bridging movement announced the first networking bridge certified by the AVB-promoting AVnu Alliance as compliant with every aspect of the relevant IEEE standards at ISE 2014. Simultaneously, however, revelations centring around the new AES67 standard suggested that the future of networking could be more diffuse than many would have predicted 18 months ago. Extreme Networks’ Summit
X440 switch series – which supports the large-scale rollout of converged network devices such as IP telephones, wireless access points and physical security devices – has become the first to attain AVB certification through a scheme operated by AVnu Alliance in conjunction with the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab. “This is the first of many
AVnu-certified products to come,” declared Harman International’s Rick Kreifeldt,
UK Eclipse joins AVM Impact
THE EMPLOYEES of integrator Eclipse Audio Visual Scotland, based near Glasgow, have moved across to AVM Impact with effect from 1 February 2014.
The five-strong company, which was founded in 2009 by its four directors, works mainly in the corporate space, with recent notable projects for water company Business Stream, pensions consultancy Hymans Robertson and national sport agency Sportscotland. Jim Coleman, director of
Eclipse (right of picture), said: “Everyone is delighted to be joining AVM Impact. With the ambitious growth plans that AVM Impact has in Scotland, I have no doubt that the range of skills that we can bring to the existing team will help deliver the very best AV design and installation solutions for new and existing clients.” He added that key skills of the Eclipse team are on the technical side, including documentation and programming. Coleman told Installation
AVnu Alliance president (pictured). “After wrapping up our biggest year of growth since inception, we look forward to making strides with more AVnu-certified switches and end-points in 2014.” A programme for pro video is also on the cards for this year, said Kreifeldt. On a related note, the AVnu Alliance stand featured a demo from Barco showcasing the delivery of AVB with H.264 compression over networks ranging from 1 to 10GbE and beyond. Karel Buijsse, product
manager networking at Barco, said: “With this demo we’ve shown that AVB, though intrinsically Layer 2, can be perfectly integrated into a large network infrastructure through Layer 3 access for wider distribution and management. This makes AVB applicable through the complete AV world.” It’s an interesting
development given audio consultant Roland Hemming’s observation that AVB is “a Layer 2 protocol and this
media networking technology will incorporate AES67 transport via a firmware update to be released to OEMs within 12 months, while ALC NetworX stressed that its Ravenna solution is already AES67-compliant. Andreas Hildebrand, senior
creates a stumbling block for some applications, especially large projects where you need to route across subnets. Dante, Ravenna and AES67 allow for Layer 3 and thus don’t have this restriction. Another issue is that the number of AVB-enabled switches is extremely limited and they are significantly more expensive than their equivalent non-AVB enabled counterparts.” The recent cluster of announcements regarding the Layer 3-oriented AES67 standard, which was published last September, can therefore be seen as significant. Audinate’s Dante
product manager at ALC NetworX, said: “Ravenna is the only IP audio distribution technology to offer […] complete AES67 compatibility ‘out of the box’. Indeed, not only is Ravenna AES67 compatible, it largely exceeds AES67’s recommendations at every level.”
Hemming observed that
“while AVB may be modified to allow for Layer 3, this is likely to be some way off”. For integrators understandably confused by the continuing panoply of options, however, some form of convergence between the approaches cannot arrive soon enough.
www.aes.org www.avnu.org www.barco.com http://ravenna.alcnetworx.com
that the team would remain in its existing offices for the next four months at least. AVM Impact already has Scottish offices in Edinburgh and Perth. Adrian Robertson (left of
picture), AVM Impact’s director for Scotland, said: “I am
delighted that the directors of Eclipse and their team have chosen to join forces with us. They bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to our ever-expanding Scottish business.”
www.eclipse-av.co.uk www.avmimpact.com
4 March 2014
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