IABM Endorses AIMS Roadmap For IP Adoption

The IABM has officially endorsed the Alliance for IP Media Solutions (AIMS) roadmap for the adoption of IP protocols.

The endorsement represents the growing momentum for open, standards-based protocols that will enable the media and entertainment industry's migration to a common off-the-shelf (COTS)-based network infrastructure for production and playout workflows.

At IBC2016, visitors will be able to see the results of the collaboration between AIMS and the IABM at the IP Interoperability Zone (Hall 8). Featuring the interoperability technologies developed by the AES and the Joint Task Force on Networked Media (JT-NM) – a joint effort of AMWA, EBU, SMPTE and VSF – the IBC IP Interoperability Zone will include real-world demonstrations of interoperation between many manufacturers' IP system components, all based on the technologies of the AIMS roadmap.

Mike Cronk, Chair of the AIMS Board, said: "With over 450 suppliers to the media and entertainment industry in its membership, the IABM's endorsement of the AIMS roadmap is significant. What we are seeing is a general alignment across the industry around one set of protocols for IP interoperability."

Peter White, CEO of IABM, added: "For a number of years now, the industry has needed a way forward to collaborate on IP interoperability. We are pleased to be standing alongside AIMS and wholeheartedly endorse the AIMS roadmap as the path that provides that way forward."

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(JP/LM)