Cobalt Digital will attend IBC 2023 with new routers and control panels

Cobalt Digital, founding partner of the openGear initiative, will present at IBC 2023 its new Wave family of routers and control panels developed to adapt to virtually any application with support for signals up to 12G SDI.

These solutions will be announced along with many other new features, such as the line UltraBlue IP-MV of IP multiscreens, the decoder Pacific ULL and a new 20-slot high-power frame openGear compatible. Popular units of the series will also be presented Sapphire of ST 2110 converters from Cobalt, recently launched.

Suzanne Brady, SVP of Global Sales and Marketing at Cobalt, states that "the industry continues to move towards 12G and IBC is the perfect environment to introduce our latest 12G routers and control panels to the international Broadcast community. These flexible units provide incredible power and density in an extremely compact package with a comprehensive feature set. We are always excited to offer solutions to our customers that answer a need and support their success."

The new Wave high-density routers offer great flexibility, ease of use and simplified integration. Available in two configurations (64x64 and 32x32), these units adapt to any variety of applications with support for signals up to 12G-SDI.

Packaged in a thin rack 4U At 3.75 inches deep with full-size BNC connectors, these routers include an Ethernet port for IP-based controls such as Cobalt's Reflex, PESA PNET, and General Remote's SW-P-08 protocol. The units also incorporate 9-pin RS-422 and RS-232 serial communication ports. Web-based controls allow for full configuration, saves, monitoring and preset management. This compact design is optimized specifically for 12G SDI operation, but easily handles lower SDI speeds as well as ASI and MADI.

Control panels

Cobalt will also debut a series of control panels developed to adapt to the Wave family of routers. The Wave CP-84L has 84 backlit LCD dot matrix buttons, while the simpler Wave CP-78 has 78 buttons.

The panels are housed in a 2U rack measuring just 3.5 inches tall and just 3.4 inches deep with removable rack-mount “ears” for tabletop use or other custom installations. The panels allow store and retrieve different settings from the browser to provide extremely flexible operations. After customizing the panel, simply upload the configuration to another panel to make quick changes to your network. Cobalt will also offer a Customizable API for integration with other products. Like WAVE routers, both control panels offer unprecedented flexibility, ease of use and integration, and share the same rich feature set.