OCA Alliance adds NDI to its alliance

OCA Alliance, a non-profit trade association created to promote the AES70 standard and the Open Control Architecture (OCA) ecosystem as a control solution for professional multimedia networking applications, welcomes IS as a member of the trade association.

Referencia en el sector en redes de audio, vídeo y metadatos, NDI ofrece una amplia cartera de soluciones de software y tecnología. Con herramientas de alta eficiencia, plug & play e interoperables, NDI se adapta a las aplicaciones de redes de medios, desde las más pequeñas hasta las más grandes, y a todo lo que hay entre medias.

Roberto Musso, technical director of NDI, notes that "joining the OCA Alliance represents an important leap forward in the metadata standardization strategy in NDI. It is also a great pleasure to collaborate with such brilliant minds as those of the creators of AES 70. I hope to soon have the opportunity to publish the guidelines for AES 70 on NDI."

“NDI really needs no introduction, and the OCA Alliance is delighted to welcome them to our membership,” he acknowledges. Ethan Wetzell, president of marketing for the OCA Alliance. "NDI's participation is not only a vote of confidence in the standard, but it is also proof that AES70 is not just for audio: if you are connected, AES70 can help. We look forward to working with the team."

AES 70

Regarding AES 70, it is a set of standards for control and supervision for professional audiovisual media and audio networking devices. It provides powerful, high-speed, low-cost, and robust device control and monitoring for networks of any scale, from one device and a single controller to networks with almost any number of devices and multiple controllers.

AES70 is a public standard without license and without proprietary content. It can be used freely and at no cost. Its use does not require membership in AES70 or the OCA Alliance. For a small one-time fee, anyone can download the AES AES70 standards documents. AES70 exposes the control and monitoring functions that a device manufacturer wishes to expose, and nothing more. A device can provide a complete AES70 interface for network control of many advanced functions, or it can expose a simple interface with only a few parameters, even a single parameter such as power on and off.

AES70 itself is not a media transport protocol, but it can be used to manage virtually any media transport scheme: AES67, Dante, MILAN… The functions of AES70 are defined to control the creation and deletion of media streams and connections, and to monitor the status of all media stream operations. Their protocols typically operate over standard Ethernet networks, both wired and wireless, but can be configured to use almost any type of connection. No special communication equipment is needed. AES70 is an efficient design, with low processing and memory overhead, and low network bandwidth usage.