The following Article is an extract from a special report published in Installation-international.com by Rob Lane in September 2022.
The buzz around the IP Media Experience (IPMX) initiative has been growing for several years now, but there’s no doubt that it has reached the ears of more industry stakeholders than ever before during 2022. With more companies joining multiple IPMX-supporting organisations and expressing their desire to make solutions that are compliant with the pro-AV-oriented, AV-over-IP standards and specifications, there is every expectation that the next 12 months will be instrumental in the furtherance of the IPMX project.
Samuel Recine is vice-president of AV/IT Group, Americas & Asia Pacific at Matrox, and pro AV working group chair at AIMS, which – along with SMPTE, AMWA, VSF and JT-NM – is one of the organisations championing IPMX. He remarks: “The number of conversations around IPMX, and the number of companies joining one or more of these organisations to help support the building of the standards or learn how to implement them in their products, has gone up massively in 2022 versus 2021. Momentum is clearly building, as can be seen by the world class interoperability demo of 12 brands that was featured at InfoComm in June, which really highlighted the capabilities. So I am confident that awareness is growing and that soon IPMX will be in even more people’s vocabulary.”
AIMS booth at InfoComm 2022. AIMS supports IMPX
While the AV and media industries have hardly been short of networking initiatives in recent years, the provenance of IPMX meant that it was always going to be a strong contender. For a start, it builds on the foundational standards created by the supporting organisations, including SMPTE’s ST 2110 and AMWA’s NMOS (which was recently the subject of a separate Installation feature. Secondly, the initiative had well-defined aims from the beginning, which included the addition of provisions – including for control, copy protection, connection management and security – bound to resonate with its target market of pro AV.
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