Ross advances towards hyperconvergence with carbonite hypermax

David Ross, CEO the Ross Video, has started the presentation of the Canadian manufacturer in this NAB 2025 by stressing that the 2024 exercise has been 33 years of continuous growth in the industry. This year the main launch is the new Hypermax carbonite.

Ross, who has carried out an interesting demonstration of the potential of artificial intelligence for the voice control From a live production, the door that opens the use of the cloud in the industry has also reported. Ross Video continues to expand its cloud services portfolio, providing hybrid, local and native solutions that allow Broadcasers, sports organizations and content creators scale production on demand. The company's commitment goes through a safe, reliable and profitable cloud development capable of being perfectly integrated into existing production environments.

Kevin Cottan, vice president of sports and live events, has shared some of the most relevant success cases in which Ross has helped both the production of live and the Tokyo Dome (Japan); The München Messe (Munich), highlighting Adele's concert; the ZSC Lions pavilion in Zurich (Switzerland); or the PGA Studio in Ponte Vedra (Florida).

Carbonite HyperMax

Without a doubt, the star launch by Ross in this NAB is the new Hypermax carbonite. This hyperconvergente, flexible and powerful platform for mixing, routing, video and audio processing, multipant monitoring and ultra high resolution video composition will allow BroadCasters and producers to configure their tools to adapt to each production. With a robust hardware and dynamic software licenses, Carbonite Hypermax provides a complete set of tools so that they can meet today's production demands and the future.

As for its software -defined production engine, the SDPE Blade in the heart of Carbonite Hypermax is a versatized hardware platform enabled by software that changes functionality to address multiple production needs. It should be noted that a single software license activates advanced software functions such as Maxme, Maxmini and Maxscene in any SDPE Blade. This maximizes flexibility and efficiency while eliminating the need for multiple licenses or additional hardware.

For its part, Ross Platform Manager, a business level control system, will allow to manage software licenses and SDPE BLADES and independent ROSS switches. With access -based access and licensing monitoring, it guarantees management without errors.

Also, Carbonite Hypermax is fully compatible with the family of touchdrive control surfaces, which includes Dashboard, the powerful operational control software and Ross Video configuration.

David Ross has stressed that Hypermax carbonite hardware is hyperconvergente, which means that Ultrix FR5 and FR1 racks provide a compact and efficient home in terms of energy for SDPE blades thus reducing energy consumption, simplifying wiring and decreasing maintenance, results in a more efficient and profitable production.
Also, with Ross Platform Manager, Hypermax carbonite production capabilities can be reconfigured and unfolding instantly anywhere, either in rooms or continents, which guarantees rapid adaptability to any production demand.

Nigel Spratling, Vice President of Ross Video Production Mixers and Servers, highlights that “Carbonite Hypermax has been designed taking into account flexibility and scalability, which allows users functionality to meet various demands and maximize the return of investment. ”

Live Production Center

Another of Ross's novelties in NAB 2025 is its proposal for a production study for direct in a complete equipment easy to transport or install. With his Hyperconvergente production platform and the Virtualized Software Production Solutions, Ross has achieved something that would seem impossible just five years ago: Fit the entire back-end of a modern live production study in a single equipment rack. This is an important saving of space, costs, wiring and energy without compromising performance.

This live production center is designed to Four cameras. Although initially designed for news production flows, it can easily adapt to other types of production, such as entertainment or large corporate events.

The heart of the system is the Plataforma hiperconvergente avenged fr5, which provides central signal routing, in addition to integrated and multipant signal processing. It offers the flexibility of multiple multimedia standards, including SDI, NDI and ST 2110, in addition to Madi and Dante Audio. In this platform a production mixer system is integrated Carbonite HyperMax de 3 ME and an audio mixer Ultrimix-MXR.

This solution admits four study chambers coupled to ROSS Robotic Solutions, including systems I Armch free movement or systems Furious Based on rails, together with camera control SmartShell and image tracking software Vision[Ai]ry with artificial intelligence technology.

A powerful graphic system with graphics XPression (including xpression maps and meteorological graphics Raiden) guarantees that productions have the best appearance. All this is linked to a complete set of workflow tools, including MOS integration with systems Inception Newsroom and Streamline Pro Media Asset Management, together with the intake and reproduction of Media I/O.

The production solution is linked to automated production control OverDrive, that perfectly unites all these production tools to allow it to easily produce consistent and high quality productions. Mc1 and Openingear They complete this solution, providing a complete solution of master control and air chain, including branding, audio correction, water brand and SCTE activation.

Media I/O

Finally, highlight the presentation in Las Vegas of Media I/O. It is a highly flexible software solution for professional and quality Broadcast applications for intake, reproduction and transcodification. Scalable to the greatest production demands, it supports almost any video and transport format, it can be executed at home, virtualized or in the cloud, and integrates perfectly into its production workflow, which allows its equipment to focus on the creation of attractive content and less on the technical details.

Both intake and playout are available for a wide range of main codecs of the sector, including XDCAM, AVC-INTRA, Prores, DNXHD, DVCPRO HD, XAVC and H.264, as well as container formats, such as MXF OP1A, MOV, MP4 and AVI. Media I/or guarantees compatibility with the most popular codecs and used in the industry, which allows working with various medium effort formats. With support for base band and IP IP SDI, it allows to take advantage of traditional and IP -based workflows. It is compatible with standard industry protocols such as 2110, NDI, HLS and SRT, which guarantees compatibility with a variety of input and output formats.

Average I/o is designed for Execute in commercial hardware (cots), including servers and video cards. This provides profitable and easily available hardware options, which allows to take advantage of the existing infrastructure or choose the hardware that suits your needs.

Ross's new proposal is available to implement in the facilities themselves, virtually or in the cloud for intake and reproduction channels. Fully compatible with AMP protocols (Automation and media protocol) and VDCP (Video Disco Control Protocol), allows perfect integration and control of its intake and reproduction workflows from external systems.

In addition, media i/or allows the direct access to content in popular non -linear editing tools (Nle) as adobe premiere pro and final cut pro. Therefore, it is possible to start editing the content while it is still being captured, saving a valuable time and guaranteeing efficient workflows. In addition, the software admits the capture of live signals for reproduction, which allows access to the incoming content in real time.