AIMS Secures IABM ICG Endorsement

The Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) has become the first organisation to receive endorsement under the IABM's Industry Collaborative Groups (ICG) Endorsement Program.

Launched earlier this year at NAB 2016, the ICG Endorsement Program is an IABM initiative designed to encourage collaboration across a range of industry issues and opportunities, including best practice to standardization and interoperability. The vision is for a universally-recognised framework where endorsed collaborative groups will be supported, promoted and encouraged to move forward in an open, constructive environment to the benefit of the wider industry.

AIMS promotes the open standards that broadcast and media companies use to move from legacy SDI systems to a virtualized, IP-based future. It brings broadcasters, technology vendors and industry standards organisations together to remove fragmentation and maximize hardware and software interoperability through a comprehensive set of IP broadcast standards.

Michael Cronk, Chairman of the AIMS Board and Vice President of Core Technology at Grass Valley, said: "From the founding of AIMS last December, we have made it our mission to foster collaboration within the industry towards the adoption of open, ubiquitous standards for IP interoperability. To be the first organization to be recognized as an IABM certified Industry Collaborative Group is a validation that AIMS' mission and collaborative approach is resonating with media companies, service providers and equipment suppliers alike.

"AIMS is honored to be the first organization to receive this prestigious certification, and we are humbled by the tremendous progress towards a standards based approach to IP interoperability that we have been able to achieve in such a short time frame. We believe that collaboration is the key to that success and look forward to even further progress based on such an approach."

John Ive, IABM Director of Technology and Strategic Insight, commented: "AIMS moved forward very quickly with its application when we announced the ICG Endorsement Program at NAB, and I'm delighted to announce it as our first endorsed group. AIMS' objectives, structure and methodology align perfectly with those of our ICG Endorsement Program and we look forward to supporting AIMS in delivering the unifying leadership on IP issues that our industry needs to move forward as we transition from SDI to IP infrastructures."

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(JP/LM)