Link Electronics Expands The OpenGear Platform As Technology Partner

Ross Video and Link Electronics have officially announced their partnership to expand the openGear terminal equipment platform.
Link Electronics designs and manufactures more than 250 professional broadcast products for television stations, production facilities and close caption providers worldwide. They will join other terminal equipment vendors in supporting the award-winning platform.
Bob Hensn, Chief Executive Officer, said: "Link Electronics is very excited to be contributing to the opengear platform. We believe that our broadcast products will contribute to the wide range of solutions already offered by the rest of the openGear partners.
"We are looking forward to providing a wider range of technology to customers all over the world."
Eric Goodmurphy, Marketing Product Manager of RossGear said: "We are pleased to welcome Link Electronics into the openGear partnership.
"With openGear's continued growth, we will continue expansion, offering customers the flexibility to pick the best module for their applications."
The openGear is one terminal equipment platform with over 100 solutions available from different partners all within one common control and monitoring system.
openGear, developed by Ross and offered to partner companies to develop their own cards within openGear.
The openGear rackframe is a 2RU modular frame designed to accommodate up to 20 cards. A wide variety of cards are available from openGear terminal equipment manufacturers.
This allows facilities the freedom and flexibility to choose the best technology for their particular applications and not be locked into one manufacturers frame standard and module choices.
Cards from all openGear manufacturers adhere to common control protocols and are controllable via the Ross DashBoard openGear control system which allows quick and easy IP based monitoring and control over all frames and modules on the network.
Further information is available at: www.rossvideo.com.
(KMcA)