Lawo will showcase an extended IP portfolio tailored to the broadcast and professional audio communities in booth 617 at NAB Show New York. The company also will debut its latest product being launched during a special online event the day before the show.
Lawo’s software applications—HOME Multiviewer, HOME UDX Converter, HOME Stream Transcoder and HOME Graphic Inserter—are based on a flexible microservice architecture and offer processing capabilities with minimal energy consumption. This enables rapid adaptation to evolving requirements and budget considerations. Supporting SMPTE ST2110, SRT, JPEG XS, NDI and H.264/H.265, Lawo’s HOME Apps are suitable 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.
The HOME-native .edge Hyper-Density SDI/IP conversion and routing platform will also be on display. Each rear I/O blade provides 48 HD-BNC connectors for SD/HD/3G/UHD SDI interfacing, resulting in 192 SDI/IP conversions per 2RU. .edge is designed as a dense gateway for IP and hybrid infrastructures and as an easy drop-in SDI router replacement. It provides support for the SMPTE ST2110 suite of standards as well as ST2022-7 redundancy, with advanced essence-based handling and protection switching of audio, video and ancillary data streams in both local and wide-area network workflows. Through licensable options like proxy generation and JPEG XS compression, Lawo mitigates bandwidth constraints, streamlining IP pipes and optimizing workflows.
The modular diamond radio broadcast console can be customized to fit any operational scenario from two-fader production booths to massive 60-fader MCR installations. Its compact size is suitable for small spaces, yet informs beautifully with 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 three 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.
The diamond’s mixing engine is Lawo’s compact 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 ensuring seamless 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 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, making Power Core an extremely space-efficient baseband-to-IP gateway solution.
