openGear
Conversion, Fiber, IP, & Embedding
The industry standard platform of choice
openGear is an open-architecture, modular frame system designed by Ross Video and supported by a diverse range of terminal equipment manufacturers. The platform offers the freedom to choose technology from a wide range of products to meet the needs of a broadcast, production, or distribution facility while maintaining a compatible openGear frame infrastructure.
Why openGear?
openGear® is the industry-standard platform of choice for modular signal processing. As the world’s first modular infrastructure platform open to other manufacturers, openGear provides solutions derived from hundreds of individual cards from dozens of companies. This cooperative effort gives users the best of breed product and budget options, all while ensuring common control and monitoring within the DashBoard ecosystem.
Award-Winning
Free Control System
Reliable
Comprehensive Portfolio
Future Proof
Surprisingly, we were told by company after company that we could not make cards that were compatible with their frames. These companies made no bones about their business model which was designed around getting a couple of their frames into a customer and then lock them into their solution. Once they got their frames and control system into the customer since there would be no compatibility with other vendor’s products the customer would have no choice but to go back to them as they needed more equipment. Our approach had always been different. Every one of our analog and digital lines of terminal equipment had compatibility with existing standards.
Customers always loved this because they had a choice. So, we had to create our own frame and control system. Instead of doing yet again the same thing every other company in the industry was doing we decided that we should create an industry standard for terminal equipment. This fits perfectly with our code of ethics “#1: We will always act in our customers’ best interest” Having a standard would be great for customers, they would only have one frame and control system to worry about with a wide range of product choices available. If it was great for customers, it would also be great for other players in the industry, especially smaller companies that just did not have the capability to produce a frame and control system. They could create cards for this new frame and sell them into the market place and be compatible with the growing openGear terminal equipment ecosystem. As the new standard took off, Ross would also do well as we got our share of the business. We called this new standard openGear.
We hope you agree that openGear is an important advancement in the broadcast industry VidOvation would be pleased to speak with you about how openGear can be of benefit to your organization.