Most corporates have networks based on just 1GigE. NDI works over the standard GigE networks common in almost every facility, broadcaster or corporate enterprise. What really marks NDI out is NewTek’s belief that the world is headed toward ubiquitous general purpose computer systems, not customised broadcast specific hardware. It’s royalty free and NewTek offers an SDK to vendors wanting to hook their products into it. It’s pretty successful too, attracting a significant number of third parties including LiveU, Vizrt, Teradek, AJA, Matrox, Panasonic, Adobe, ChyronHego and Playbox to incorporate NDI support. While claiming interoperability with and backing for SMPTE standards, NewTek continues to promote its Network Device Interface (NDI) as a parallel video over IP path. While most vendors seem to be rallying behind the SMPTE standards-based approach of AIMS, there is one company which appears an outlier. With the industry rapidly collapsing around an SPMTE standards-based approach to IP, where does NDI fit in? In quite a lot of places it turns out. RedShark News talked to NewTek just ahead of NAB for a status report on its Network Device Interface.
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