At the upcoming 2023 NAB Show that’s co-located with the AES Show at the Javits Center in New York City, Lawo (booth 617) announced that it will be presenting an extended IP portfolio tailored to broadcast and pro audio in addition to showcasing its latest product that’s set to launch during a special online event on the day before the show.
Central to the NAB New York presentation are the company’s HOME Apps, including HOME Multiviewer, HOME UDX Converter, HOME Stream Transcoder, and HOME Graphic Inserter, that are based on a microservice architecture and offer processing capabilities with minimal energy consumption. Supporting SMPTE ST2110, SRT, JPEG XS, NDI, and H.264/H.265, the HOME Apps are designed for mixed technology environments, adjusting to emerging format requirements. They run on standard servers, whether on-premise, in remote data centers, or in the public cloud.
Also on show will be the HOME-native .edge Hyper-Density SDI/IP conversion and routing platform. Each rear I/O blade provides 48 HD-BNC connectors for SD/HD/3G/UHD SDI interfacing, resulting in 192 SDI/IP conversions per 2 RU. .edge is designed as a gateway for IP and hybrid infrastructures and as an easy drop-in SDI router replacement, providing support for the SMPTE ST2110 suite of standards as well as ST2022-7 redundancy, with essence-based handling and protection switching of audio, video and ancillary data streams in both local and wide-area network workflows.
In addition, the company will be highlighting the V10.8 software release for the mc²/A__UHD Core/Power Core platform that provides bus routing, expanded AUX count (up to 256 buses), QSC Q-Sys proxy integration in HOME, remote show control via OSC, and more. Further, NMOS support for the mc² Gateserver bolsters device compatibility, offering integration into Lawo’s ecosystem.
Designed to be highly configurable and available with a console-width “Virtual Extension” touchscreen option, the modular diamond broadcast console can be customized to fit a range of operational scenarios from 2-fader production booths to 60-fader MCR installations. It incorporates two high-resolution color TFT displays per fader strip, touch-sensitive faders and rotary controls, and customizable color-coded control groups. Nine different modules offer two fader styles, full- and half-width monitor options, and 3 different key/rotary control modules. The Virtual Extension’s 13.3-inch HD color touchscreens visualize context-sensitive data like EQ curves, compression settings, DSP functions and routing setups.
diamond’s mixing engine is Lawo’s 1RU Power Core, which accommodates hundreds of AoIP, MADI, Dante, AES3 and analog signals, with multiple license packages to tailor capabilities to operations. Power Core complies with the ST2110-30 standard for operation in combined radio / TV broadcast plants, as well as ST2022-7 Seamless Protection Switching for simultaneous, redundant network links. The Audio I/O Extender (AIOX) unit, also to be on display in New York, adds 64 analog or digital I/O per unit; up to 20 may be connected to a single Power Core to add as many as 1,280 additional I/O per system.
