Edge One: Lawo's new solution for NAB 2026 that unifies audio and video I/O

Theirs presents in NAB 2026 (April 19 – 22) an all-in-one solution that provides professional-quality audio and video connectivity in a single scalable, customizable and flexible stage box: Edge One.

The broadcast and ProAV industry, which increasingly requires greater agility and adaptability, is facing a growing challenge from a configuration point of view. According to the team Theirs, “technical complexity” grows faster than the productions themselves, making the configuration processes of the different devices require greater management efforts.

Given this context, Lawo has followed a strategy based on simplification of processes. In this way, the German firm has promoted platforms such as Home, which allows complete infrastructures to be managed centrally, or VSM, an environment that makes it easy to create custom workflows. Added to this is Home Apps, scalable solutions that move audio and video processing to standard hardware-based environments that allow users to start with basic configurations and scale up progressively; everything, allowing you to choose between environments on-premises, hybrid or in the cloud, adapting to the needs of each production.

Despite these advances, the challenge of offering in the same device convergence between audio and video input and output interfaces (I/O / I/O) persisted, which were resolved by the Lawo team with independent solutions such as .edge, the series A__line o PowerCore. Looking ahead to NAB 2026, the company is launching an all-in-one solution that addresses this problem: Edge One.

Edge One: “One device, infinite solutions”

The new Edge One It is defined as a single device designed to manage and convert audio and video signals from the same platform. Its architecture, based on licenses that can be activated in real time, allows it to address a wide variety of applications: from broadcast environments to facilities ProAV, passing through live outside coverage, uses of stage box, post-production work or even commentator positions.

With support for multiple video formats, including HDMI, SDI, SMPTE 2110 without compression and JPEG XS, Edge One offers advanced capabilities video and audio processing and routing, including embedding y de-embedding. Other key features are its integrated USB audio interface; features like Automix, for mixture optimization; a flexible network connectivity, which ranges from 1 to 25 GbE; compatibility with standards such as NMOS, and feeding through PoE++.

To facilitate its deployment, Edge One comes standard in three base packages, which support additional functionality through perpetual or flexible software licenses. The version aimed at audio trae consigo un módulo de interfaz de audio (disponible en tres versiones),
E/S de audio MADI con conversión de frecuencia de muestreo, DSP de audio, E/S GPI y puertos de transmisión por cobre, fibra y multigigabit. La opción de vídeo brinda hasta 8 entradas o salidas de vídeo (SDI y/o HDMI), E/S GPI y puertos de transmisión por cobre, fibra y multigigabit. Finalmente, la opción AV trae un módulo de interfaz de audio, E/S de audio MADI, DSP de audio, hasta 8 entradas o salidas de vídeo (SDI y/o HDMI), E/S GPI y puertos de transmisión por cobre, fibra y multigigabit

Edge One ha sido desarrollado con el objetivo simplificar los flujos de trabajo y facilitar la escalabilidad de las infraestructuras. Its design allows the configuration to be adapted to any type of application, from small implementations to large deployments. In this way, the solution reduces the need for hardware and allows users to evolve according to their needs, which reaffirms the mission that Theirs pursued in recent years.