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AVnu Alliance is the only industry consortium driving open, standards-based AV networking through certification. Vol 13 December 2015 UPCOMING EVENTS TOP STORIES AVnu Alliance members presented at the first-ever Deterministic Ethernet Forum in Vienna AVnu Alliance is currently preparing for multiple education events at ISE 2016 in Amsterdam AVnu Alliance member HARMAN announced newly AVnu-certified signal processors - BSS Audio London BLU-805 and BLU-325 Alliance members collaborated on AVB/TSN panel discussion at the 138th AES Convention in New York City NAMM Show 2016 January 21-24, 2016 (Anaheim, CA) AVnu Alliance Education Training Day February 8, 2016 (ISE, Amsterdam) Integrated Systems Europe 2016 February 9-12, 2016 (Amsterdam) LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT First of all, on behalf of myself and the entire board, I would like to extend Seasons Greetings to AVnu Alliance members and supporters. This has been a year for growth within the AVnu Alliance. We ended the year with 72 Promoter members and 13 Adopter members along with even more pending memberships that we will announce in the very near future. We expect to see this growth continue as we develop the test and certification for the growing markets we support. Over the past year, AVnu Alliance has sponsored two successful technical conferences: The San Jose TSNA Conference in April and the Deterministic Ethernet Forum in Vienna, Austria in October. These events garnered such a great AVnu Alliance Chairman, Kevin Stanton presents at Deterministic Ethernet Forum amount of interest that we are already planning the tracks for 2016. We are currently planning the second-annual Conference on TSNA for the week of April 11, 2016 in San Diego, we will announce registration information in the coming months. With expansion in mind, we also hope to hold a similar conference in Asia in the future, pending general interest. If you would like to be involved in the planning and organization of these events please contact Chairman Kevin Stanton via [email protected] . This past year, we also participated in a number of conferences and shows, including ISE, InfoComm, CEDIA, and AES. The Marketing Committee is busy planning the 2016 schedule, and I encourage any member who is interested in AVnu Alliance exhibitions or speaking engagements to participate in the Marketing Work Group calls. I would like to personally thank the members who participated in AVnu Alliance Technical Work Group and Marketing Work Group. Without their work and dedication, we wouldn’t have achieved such growth this past year. I would also like to thank the other members of the Board for their support. It has been a successful year, and I look forward to an even better year in 2016! - Gary Stuebing, AVnu Alliance president HERE’S WHAT WE´VE BEEN UP TO Industrial Webinar In September, AVnu Alliance Industrial segment hosted a webinar with Control Engineering Magazine titled: The Coming Changes to Standard Ethernet: Industrial IoT Convergence with the Control System. Nearly 300 attendees joined in to hear AVnu Alliance segment leaders Paul Didier, Cisco, Dan Sexton, General Electric and Todd Walter, National Instruments tackle commonly asked questions regarding Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) and its place within control systems. The leaders answered questions like, how can TSN enable seamless convergence within control networks? And, how is TSN going to impact the way these systems are built? During the webinar, the presenters also announced the creation of the Industrial Advisory Council and invited all attendees to join. Speaking Engagements CEDIA At CEDIA Expo 2015, Marketing Workgroup Chair, Greg Schlechter teamed up with JB Fowler from Control4 for a training session focused on the importance of synchronization in networked consumer-facing audio systems. After sharing examples of audio that was not synced, they explained the importance of timing in audio and video systems and revealed that the root of Scene from Kaka’s Great Adventure show at Chimelong Ocean Kingdom Greg Schlechter presents at CEDIA 2015 synchronization issues lies within networks that were not originally designed for data to arrive at a certain time. “Accurate time requires frequent communication over a solid network.” – Greg Schlechter, AVnu Alliance CE Segment Chair. AES Convention AVnu Alliance members from Meyer Sound, Pivitec, Coveloz and HARMAN collaborated on a panel during the Networked Audio Track of the 139th International AES Convention chaired by Tim Shuttleworth, Renkus Heinz. Their presentation, Networked Audio: AVB/TSN Ethernet Is Built-In Everywhere Now; How Do You Make the Most of It? introduced technology managers, integrators and specifiers to the basics of distributing audio, video and control signals over an Ethernet network in ready-to-play fashion. The presentation also focused on system implementation with TSN standards. Case Studies Kakas Great Adventure Advanced audio technologies from Meyer Sound help deliver an immersive experience for audiences of all ages at Chimelong Ocean Kingdom’s 5D Castle Theater in Zhuhai, China. The 1,000-seat theatre presents an animated show with support from 119 Meyer Sound loudspeakers. The theatre’s sophisticated, multichannel presentation includes 26 input channels and various output channel configurations connected to the D-Mitri® digital audio platform via one of the world’s largest AVB networks. The show also uses the in-seat electronics developed by Weigl, including the AVB end station which is implemented with the XMOS chipset and AVnu-certified AVB Reference Design and the system connects via a MADI output from Pivitec to the Extreme Networks AVnu-certified Summit X440 and X460 switches. “The fact that AVB data shares the same network infrastructure as the control data is proof that AVB and other common network tasks can coexist, even on heavily utilized networks.” – Leo Wagner infrastructure manager for Wels, Austria-based Kraftwerk Living Technologies. AVB Tours with Bryan Adams Grammy award-winning recording artist Bryan Adams has been touring the globe for over 30 years, and when fans purchase tickets for one of his shows, they expect a larger than life experience where they can hear their favorite songs loud and clear, like they heard on their first Bryan Adams record. Creating his specific, well-known sound requires an experienced team armed with sophisticated equipment. Robert Nevalainen conducting sound check on the Bryan Adams tour. Robert Nevalainen and fellow Front of House engineer, Jody Perpick, are long-time users of Avid VENUE Audio Video Bridging (AVB) live sound systems. As the team of mixing engineers prepared for the most recent Adams Reckless 30th Anniversary European tour, they decided to upgrade their existing systems with dual VENUE | S3L-X systems once they realized that the added functionality and I/O sharing on the AVB network could provide the streamlined setup and workflows they needed. The entire system consists of two AVID AVB S3L-X systems, four Stage 16 remote I/O boxes, and two Apple Mac Mini computers, with an Apple Mac Mini placed at each station recording or virtual sound checks—everything required for the FOH and MON mixing positions. The key to making this system setup incredibly simple is the AVB interconnectivity since it avoids both engineered network switch and routing issues. Moreover, if any cable fails to withstand the unpredictable touring atmosphere, they are protected by a ring network. New Members We were thrilled to add two new industry leaders to our membership roster. Calnex and Rockwell are innovative leaders in the industrial and automotive markets and will bring decades of expertise to our membership as we continue to develop applications for TSN. Based in Scotland, Calnex is the world-leader in test and measurement solutions for synchronization and network emulation. Their tools allow other companies to prove and monitor the performance and reliability of their network and their applications. AVnu Alliance members developing products with AVB/TSN to get synchronization over Ethernet have turned to Calnex to test and prove performance at standards upheld by the AVnu Alliance certification program. As the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and information, Rockwell Automation has a long history of technological innovation marked with milestones in industrial control systems and products. Customers in over 80 countries worldwide utilize their constantly evolving products for engagement in smarter manufacturing processes. Upcoming Events for AVnu Alliance NAMM Show 2016 This year at NAMM Show 2016, AVnu Alliance member Tom Knesel, Co-Founder of Pivitec will present AVB in Live Sound for Houses of Worship as a part of the TEC Tracks educational sessions. The presentation will take place on Saturday, January 23, 2016 from 12:00PM – 1:00PM PST and will explain how Ethernet AVB/TSN enables precise timing and synchronization and bandwidth reservation, making it an ideal solution for several of the consistency and convenience issues musicians face on the road and during live performances. You can register for the class here . ISE 2016 This year, before ISE 2016 gets underway, AVnu Alliance will host a ‘Next Generation AV Network Fundamentals and Design’ Education Training Day on February 8, 2016 from 12:30PM – 5PM . Three presenters will begin with Principles of Digital Networking to give attendees background information on the evolution of standard Ethernet and how to make the most of AVB/TSN. The second session will focus on Network Topology and will share end-user installation and configuration considerations. The final segment will cover TSN AV Solutions, complete with installation and system architecture examples. After the education session wraps, AVnu Alliance will host a cocktail networking hour open to the public. To build on the momentum of the training day, AVnu Alliance members will participate in a number of speaking engagements throughout the show to share education opportunities with ISE attendees. Richard Bugg, Digital Products Solutions Architect at Meyer Sound will present the Kaka’s Great Adventure case study alongside Leo Wagner of Kraftwerk as a part of the ISE Theaters education sessions. Their presentation will take place Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 11:30 AM. Richard Bugg will also present an InfoComm MasterClass at ISE on Digital Audio Networking on February 11, 2016 at 2:00 PM . Graeme Harrison, EVP of Marketing for Biamp will present three separate times at ISE. First he will present an ISE FlashTrack session on “Why should AV care about IoT” on February 9, 2016 at 11:00AM. Later that day he will present “UCC and Huddle Spaces” in the ISE Unified Communications Theatre at 2:30 PM. He will then present “Understanding AVB/TSN and Its Advantages” as a part of the ISE Audio Solutions Theater on February 10, 2016 at 11:30 AM. Justin O’Connor, Product Manager of Audio Products for Biamp, will present in the Show Floor Theatre on “Exploring Networked Audio Protocols: AVB, CobraNet & Dante” in the Audio Solutions Theatre on Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 2:30 PM. Sally Blank from Biamp will also present as a part of the ISE Theatre Program in the Unified Communications Theatre on February 10, 2016 at 2:00PM. She will cover ‘Identifying and Preparing for Industry Trends’. Register here to attend the free AVnu Training Day on February 8. AVnu Alliance in the News As the industrial segment of AVnu Alliance continues to grow and garner attention, several publications took a deeper look into the various applications for AVB/TSN and broke down the technology itself. Adam Lesser of Gigaom Research spoke with AVnu Alliance Industrial Segment Co-Chair Dan Sexton, General Electric to discuss how security and scalability are preventing the Industrial Internet of Things from progressing. His piece, Closed versus open loop thinking in industrial IoT , shared how the AVnu Alliance is working to address those issues. Design World Magazine also examined standard Ethernet and the updates that must be made before industrial IoT can take off in Networking for industrial machine tool building , an article by AVnu Alliance industrial segment chair, Todd Walter. He notes, “An organization such as AVnu Alliance can provide the labeling to give end users confidence and the specifications required to pull together the family of standards that will assure that networks can meet the demands of the various applications.” Sean Gallagher of Ars Technica evaluated TSN in The future is the Internet of Things- deal with it , and discussed its role in a variety of applications, including automotive. “Time Sensitive Networking (TSN), a time synchronized networking standard overseen by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the AVnu Alliance, can easily accommodate many IoT applications as we saw in lab tests at GE. In addition to IoT applications in industry, TSN is being looked at for use in automobiles.” National Instruments Executive Vice President Eric Starkloff chimed in with, “There's a strong desire for TSN to be used in the automotive space because companies want to use IP-based controls for automobiles.” On the Pro AV side, several publications shared details from the recent AVB/TSN installation at China’s Chimelong Ocean Kingdom 5D Castle Theater. Alongside a number of AVnu Alliance members, Meyer Sound helped create a larger than life experience filled with 4D motion seats and the largest 3D screen on earth, all equipped with AVB. See full details on the installation in ProSoundWeb’s Chimelong Ocean Kingdom Outfitted With Meyer Sound . “The theatre’s sophisticated, multichannel presentation includes 26 input channels and various output channel configurations connected to the D-Mitri digital audio platform via one of the world’s largest AVB (Audio Video Bridging) networks.” When asked about AVB’s performance and installation process at Chimelong, Leo Wagner, infrastructure manager for Wels, Austria-based Kraftwerk Living Technologies said, “Use of the new AVB audio networking standard greatly simplified installation, while affording greater flexibility in developing the audio effects.” Following the 139th International AES Convention, Sports Video Group Europe’s editor David Davies spoke with AVnu Alliance’s Marketing Workgroup Chair, Greg Schlechter about AVB Certification momentum and real-world deployments . Schlechter notes, “Building an ecosystem is the main purpose of the certification program.” Member News and Recognition HARMAN Soundweb London BLU-805 and BLU-325 are AVnu-certified: Congrats to HARMAN on reaching AVnu Certification for their Soundweb London BLU-805 and BLU-325. HARMAN shared the news at the 139th International Convention of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), both the BLU-805 and BLU-325 devices offer configurable inputs and outputs, compatibility with all Soundweb London input and output card options, logic processing capability, the 256- channel BLU link bus and GPIO. Each offers up to 16 inputs and outputs, configurable in banks of four. Full details can be found here . HARMAN made an open source software contribution to the Open AVB project to help drive the adoption of Ethernet AVB/TSN in automotive, consumer, pro audio/video and industrial markets. HARMAN’s contribution includes major enhancements to the AVTP data pipeline and aims to modernize and equip the connected car with flexible, scalable and secure in-vehicle networking technology while addressing an increased need for highly reliable communication in the vehicle. Full details can found here . AVID is now shipping the next generation of their AVID VENUE | S6L live sound system with the industry’s most advanced live sound engine that allows audio professionals to handle the largest and most complex tours. VENUE | S6L is a fully modular, scalable live sound mixing system that delivers best- in-class functionality for a range of live sound mixing applications, including front-of-house, monitor, broadcast, theater, and more. Get a look “under the hood” in Derk Hagedorn’s blog for Avid here . Get Social! Join our communities: Connect with AVnu Alliance to stay up to date on all Alliance announcements, including where we're going and what we're doing via our Twitter account (@AVnu_Alliance ). You're also encouraged to join the conversation on our LinkedIn page .

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AVnu Alliance is the only industry consortiumdriving open, standards-based AV networking

through certification.

Vol 13December 2015

UPCOMING EVENTS

TOP STORIES

AVnu Alliance members presentedat the first-ever DeterministicEthernet Forum in Vienna

AVnu Alliance is currently preparingfor multiple education events at ISE2016 in Amsterdam

AVnu Alliance member HARMANannounced newly AVnu-certifiedsignal processors - BSS AudioLondon BLU-805 and BLU-325

Alliance members collaborated onAVB/TSN panel discussion at the138th AES Convention in New YorkCity

NAMM Show 2016

January 21-24, 2016 (Anaheim, CA)

AVnu Alliance EducationTraining Day

February 8, 2016 (ISE, Amsterdam)

Integrated Systems Europe2016

February 9-12, 2016 (Amsterdam)

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

First of all, on behalf of myself and the entire board, I would like to extend Seasons Greetings toAVnu Alliance members and supporters.

This has been a year for growth within the AVnu Alliance. We ended the year with 72 Promotermembers and 13 Adopter members along with even more pending memberships that we willannounce in the very near future. We expect to see this growth continue as we develop the test andcertification for the growing markets we support.

Over the past year, AVnu Alliance has sponsoredtwo successful technical conferences: The SanJose TSNA Conference in April and theDeterministic Ethernet Forum in Vienna, Austria inOctober. These events garnered such a great

AVnu Alliance Chairman, Kevin Stanton presents atDeterministic Ethernet Forum

amount of interest that we are already planningthe tracks for 2016. We are currently planning thesecond-annual Conference on TSNA for the weekof April 11, 2016 in San Diego, we will announceregistration information in the coming months.With expansion in mind, we also hope to hold asimilar conference in Asia in the future, pending general interest. If you would like to be involved inthe planning and organization of these events please contact Chairman Kevin Stanton [email protected].

This past year, we also participated in a number of conferences and shows, including ISE,InfoComm, CEDIA, and AES. The Marketing Committee is busy planning the 2016 schedule, and Iencourage any member who is interested in AVnu Alliance exhibitions or speaking engagementsto participate in the Marketing Work Group calls.

I would like to personally thank the members who participated in AVnu Alliance Technical WorkGroup and Marketing Work Group. Without their work and dedication, we wouldn’t have achievedsuch growth this past year. I would also like to thank the other members of the Board for theirsupport.

It has been a successful year, and I look forward to an even better year in 2016!

- Gary Stuebing, AVnu Alliance president

HERE’S WHAT WE´VE BEEN UP TO

Industrial Webinar

In September, AVnu Alliance Industrial segment hosted awebinar with Control Engineering Magazine titled: The ComingChanges to Standard Ethernet: Industrial IoT Convergence withthe Control System. Nearly 300 attendees joined in to hear AVnu

Alliance segment leaders Paul Didier, Cisco, Dan Sexton, General Electric and Todd Walter,National Instruments tackle commonly asked questions regarding Time Sensitive Networking(TSN) and its place within control systems. The leaders answered questions like, how can TSNenable seamless convergence within control networks? And, how is TSN going to impact the waythese systems are built?

During the webinar, the presenters also announced the creation of the Industrial Advisory Counciland invited all attendees to join.

Speaking Engagements

CEDIA

At CEDIA Expo 2015, Marketing Workgroup Chair, GregSchlechter teamed up with JB Fowler from Control4 for atraining session focused on the importance ofsynchronization in networked consumer-facing audiosystems. After sharing examples of audio that was notsynced, they explained the importance of timing in audioand video systems and revealed that the root of

Scene from Kaka’s Great Adventure show atChimelong Ocean Kingdom

Greg Schlechter presents at CEDIA 2015

synchronization issues lies within networks that were notoriginally designed for data to arrive at a certain time.“Accurate time requires frequent communication over asolid network.” – Greg Schlechter, AVnu Alliance CESegment Chair.

AES Convention

AVnu Alliance members from Meyer Sound, Pivitec, Coveloz and HARMANcollaborated on a panel during the Networked Audio Track of the 139thInternational AES Convention chaired by Tim Shuttleworth, Renkus Heinz. Theirpresentation, Networked Audio: AVB/TSN Ethernet Is Built-In Everywhere Now;How Do You Make the Most of It? introduced technology managers, integrators

and specifiers to the basics of distributing audio, video and control signals over an Ethernetnetwork in ready-to-play fashion. The presentation also focused on system implementation withTSN standards.

Case Studies

Kakas Great Adventure

Advanced audio technologies from Meyer Soundhelp deliver an immersive experience foraudiences of all ages at Chimelong OceanKingdom’s 5D Castle Theater in Zhuhai, China.The 1,000-seat theatre presents an animatedshow with support from 119 Meyer Soundloudspeakers. The theatre’s sophisticated,multichannel presentation includes 26 inputchannels and various output channelconfigurations connected to the D-Mitri® digital

audio platform via one of the world’s largest AVB networks. The show also uses the in-seatelectronics developed by Weigl, including the AVB end station which is implemented with the XMOSchipset and AVnu-certified AVB Reference Design and the system connects via a MADI output fromPivitec to the Extreme Networks AVnu-certified Summit X440 and X460 switches.

“The fact that AVB data shares the same network infrastructure as the control data is proof that AVBand other common network tasks can coexist, even on heavily utilized networks.” – Leo Wagnerinfrastructure manager for Wels, Austria-based Kraftwerk Living Technologies.

AVB Tours with Bryan Adams

Grammy award-winning recording artist Bryan Adams has been touring the globe for over 30 years,and when fans purchase tickets for one of his shows, they expect a larger than life experiencewhere they can hear their favorite songs loud and clear, like they heard on their first Bryan Adamsrecord. Creating his specific, well-known sound requires an experienced team armed withsophisticated equipment.

Robert Nevalainen conducting sound check on theBryan Adams tour.

Robert Nevalainen and fellow Front of Houseengineer, Jody Perpick, are long-time users ofAvid VENUE Audio Video Bridging (AVB) live soundsystems.

As the team of mixing engineers prepared for themost recent Adams Reckless 30th AnniversaryEuropean tour, they decided to upgrade theirexisting systems with dual VENUE | S3L-Xsystems once they realized that the addedfunctionality and I/O sharing on the AVB networkcould provide the streamlined setup and workflows they needed. The entire system consists of twoAVID AVB S3L-X systems, four Stage 16 remote I/O boxes, and two Apple Mac Mini computers, withan Apple Mac Mini placed at each station recording or virtual sound checks—everything required forthe FOH and MON mixing positions. The key to making this system setup incredibly simple is theAVB interconnectivity since it avoids both engineered network switch and routing issues. Moreover,if any cable fails to withstand the unpredictable touring atmosphere, they are protected by a ringnetwork.

New Members

We were thrilled to add two new industry leaders to our membership roster. Calnex and Rockwellare innovative leaders in the industrial and automotive markets and will bring decades of expertiseto our membership as we continue to develop applications for TSN.

Based in Scotland, Calnex is the world-leader in test and measurementsolutions for synchronization and network emulation. Their tools allow othercompanies to prove and monitor the performance and reliability of theirnetwork and their applications. AVnu Alliance members developing products

with AVB/TSN to get synchronization over Ethernet have turned to Calnex to test and proveperformance at standards upheld by the AVnu Alliance certification program.

As the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automationand information, Rockwell Automation has a long history of

technological innovation marked with milestones in industrial control systems and products.Customers in over 80 countries worldwide utilize their constantly evolving products for engagementin smarter manufacturing processes.

Upcoming Events for AVnu Alliance

NAMM Show 2016

This year at NAMM Show 2016, AVnu Alliancemember Tom Knesel, Co-Founder of Pivitec willpresent AVB in Live Sound for Houses of Worshipas a part of the TEC Tracks educational

sessions. The presentation will take place on Saturday, January 23, 2016 from 12:00PM– 1:00PM PST and will explain how Ethernet AVB/TSN enables precise timing andsynchronization and bandwidth reservation, making it an ideal solution for several of theconsistency and convenience issues musicians face on the road and during liveperformances. You can register for the class here.

ISE 2016

This year, before ISE 2016 gets underway, AVnuAlliance will host a ‘Next Generation AV NetworkFundamentals and Design’ Education TrainingDay on February 8, 2016 from 12:30PM – 5PM.Three presenters will begin with Principles ofDigital Networking to give attendees backgroundinformation on the evolution of standard Ethernet

and how to make the most of AVB/TSN. The second session will focus on NetworkTopology and will share end-user installation and configuration considerations. The finalsegment will cover TSN AV Solutions, complete with installation and system architectureexamples. After the education session wraps, AVnu Alliance will host a cocktailnetworking hour open to the public.

To build on the momentum of the training day, AVnu Alliance members will participate ina number of speaking engagements throughout the show to share educationopportunities with ISE attendees.

Richard Bugg, Digital Products Solutions Architect at Meyer Sound will present the Kaka’sGreat Adventure case study alongside Leo Wagner of Kraftwerk as a part of the ISETheaters education sessions. Their presentation will take place Thursday, February 11,2016 at 11:30 AM. Richard Bugg will also present an InfoComm MasterClass at ISE onDigital Audio Networking on February 11, 2016 at 2:00 PM.

Graeme Harrison, EVP of Marketing for Biamp will present three separate times at ISE.First he will present an ISE FlashTrack session on “Why should AV care about IoT” onFebruary 9, 2016 at 11:00AM. Later that day he will present “UCC and Huddle Spaces” inthe ISE Unified Communications Theatre at 2:30 PM. He will then present“Understanding AVB/TSN and Its Advantages” as a part of the ISE Audio SolutionsTheater on February 10, 2016 at 11:30 AM.

Justin O’Connor, Product Manager of Audio Products for Biamp, will present in the ShowFloor Theatre on “Exploring Networked Audio Protocols: AVB, CobraNet & Dante” in theAudio Solutions Theatre on Tuesday, February 9, 2016 at 2:30 PM.

Sally Blank from Biamp will also present as a part of the ISE Theatre Program in theUnified Communications Theatre on February 10, 2016 at 2:00PM. She will cover‘Identifying and Preparing for Industry Trends’.

Register here to attend the free AVnu Training Day on February 8.

AVnu Alliance in the News

As the industrial segment of AVnu Alliance continues to grow and garner attention, severalpublications took a deeper look into the various applications for AVB/TSN and broke down thetechnology itself.

Adam Lesser of Gigaom Research spoke with AVnu Alliance Industrial Segment Co-ChairDan Sexton, General Electric to discuss how security and scalability are preventing theIndustrial Internet of Things from progressing. His piece, Closed versus open loopthinking in industrial IoT, shared how the AVnu Alliance is working to address thoseissues.

Design World Magazine also examined standard Ethernet and the updates that must bemade before industrial IoT can take off in Networking for industrial machine tool building,an article by AVnu Alliance industrial segment chair, Todd Walter. He notes, “Anorganization such as AVnu Alliance can provide the labeling to give end users confidenceand the specifications required to pull together the family of standards that will assure thatnetworks can meet the demands of the various applications.”

Sean Gallagher of Ars Technica evaluated TSN in The future is the Internet of Things- dealwith it, and discussed its role in a variety of applications, including automotive. “TimeSensitive Networking (TSN), a time synchronized networking standard overseen by theInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the AVnu Alliance, can easilyaccommodate many IoT applications as we saw in lab tests at GE. In addition to IoTapplications in industry, TSN is being looked at for use in automobiles.” NationalInstruments Executive Vice President Eric Starkloff chimed in with, “There's a strong desirefor TSN to be used in the automotive space because companies want to use IP-basedcontrols for automobiles.”

On the Pro AV side, several publications shared details from the recent AVB/TSNinstallation at China’s Chimelong Ocean Kingdom 5D Castle Theater. Alongside anumber of AVnu Alliance members, Meyer Sound helped create a larger than lifeexperience filled with 4D motion seats and the largest 3D screen on earth, all equippedwith AVB. See full details on the installation in ProSoundWeb’s Chimelong OceanKingdom Outfitted With Meyer Sound. “The theatre’s sophisticated, multichannelpresentation includes 26 input channels and various output channel configurationsconnected to the D-Mitri digital audio platform via one of the world’s largest AVB (AudioVideo Bridging) networks.” When asked about AVB’s performance and installation processat Chimelong, Leo Wagner, infrastructure manager for Wels, Austria-based KraftwerkLiving Technologies said, “Use of the new AVB audio networking standard greatlysimplified installation, while affording greater flexib ility in developing the audio effects.”

Following the 139th International AES Convention, Sports Video Group Europe’s editorDavid Davies spoke with AVnu Alliance’s Marketing Workgroup Chair, Greg Schlechterabout AVB Certification momentum and real-world deployments. Schlechter notes,“Building an ecosystem is the main purpose of the certification program.”

Member News and Recognition

HARMAN Soundweb London BLU-805and BLU-325 are AVnu-certified:Congrats to HARMAN on reaching AVnuCertification for their Soundweb London BLU-805 and BLU-325. HARMAN shared thenews at the 139th International Convention of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), boththe BLU-805 and BLU-325 devices offer configurable inputs and outputs, compatibility withall Soundweb London input and output card options, logic processing capability, the 256-channel BLU link bus and GPIO. Each offers up to 16 inputs and outputs, configurable inbanks of four. Full details can be found here.

HARMAN made an open source software contribution to the Open AVB project to helpdrive the adoption of Ethernet AVB/TSN in automotive, consumer, pro audio/video andindustrial markets. HARMAN’s contribution includes major enhancements to the AVTPdata pipeline and aims to modernize and equip the connected car with flexible, scalableand secure in-vehicle networking technology while addressing an increased need forhighly reliable communication in the vehicle. Full details can found here.

AVID is now shipping the nextgeneration of their AVID VENUE | S6Llive sound system with the industry’smost advanced live sound engine thatallows audio professionals to handle thelargest and most complex tours. VENUE| S6L is a fully modular, scalable livesound mixing system that delivers best-in-class functionality for a range of livesound mixing applications, includingfront-of-house, monitor, broadcast,theater, and more. Get a look “under thehood” in Derk Hagedorn’s blog for Avid here.

Get Social!

Join our communities: Connect with AVnu Alliance to stay up to date on all Allianceannouncements, including where we're going and what we're doing via our Twitter account(@AVnu_Alliance). You're also encouraged to join the conversation on our LinkedIn page.