MNA at ISE Reflects Growing Importance of Network Interoperability in AV

	Tom Knowles, product manager Solid State Logic, will be coordinating the MNA live AES67 demo at ISE.

With the ever-increasing pace of adoption of IP-based networking in AV, there is a mounting lobby for standardization and interoperability based on open standards. Consequently, the Media Networking Alliance (MNA) -- the professional AV industry alliance, charged with promoting awareness and adoption of AES67, the open standard that provides for the common interchange of digital media between different IP networking platforms -- is exhibiting for the first time at ISE.

Of major interest, to AV manufacturers, integrators, and end users alike, will be a live demonstration of audio networking interoperability on the MNA booth 7-X230, February 9 - 12, in Amsterdam RAI, featuring 22 commercially available networked-audio products from 11 different manufacturers, employing various market leading audio networking technologies. AES67-specific extensions to the different network platforms enable the common interchange of digital audio between them.

Speaking for the MNA, Solid State Logic product manager Tom Knowles, coordinating the demonstration at ISE, says, "Following on from our first public demonstration at last year's AES show, the MNA believes it is important and impressive to demonstrate interoperability at trade shows and in other 'public' arenas, enabling manufacturers and potential end users to experience, first hand, the power and versatility of AES67."

On Wednesday, February 10, at 1:00 - 2:00pm in room D403, Rich Zwiebel, MNA chairman and vice president, systems strategy QSC, will moderate "How Will AES67 Affect the Industry?" an open discussion with a panel of network audio specialists.

Zwiebel will also present two InfoComm FlashTrack sessions -- entitled "Using AES67" -- on booth 12-N100. The 20 minute sessions are on Wednesday, February 10, at 2:00pm, and Friday, February 12, at 2:00pm.