Cobalt Digital Inc.’s award-winning edge devices for live video production and master control were on three different booths at SET EXPO, the premier business and technology event for broadcast and new media in Latin America.
The Fair and Conference was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from August 22 to 25.
Cobalt Digital solutions were highlighted by its technology partners Brasvideo and Video Systems.
Cobalt‘s technology was also on display at the Fraunhofer booth as part of Technicolor’s HDR/SDR conversion solution advanced HDR demonstrations.
Visitors to SET EXPO were able to get a glimpse of Cobalt‘s latest innovations, including a new option on its Indigo 2110-DC-01 that brings support for high-density native 4K ST 2110 video and audio processing in its form factor. openGear 9904-UDX-4K; a new version of SafeLink Gateway as a virtual machine; and the +MPx-DANTE-64×6, the industry’s first license-based four-channel 3G-SDI bridge for Dante audio.
Cobalt‘s Indigo 2110-DC-01 is a highly integrated factory option that includes dual 25G Ethernet interfaces and now supports uncompressed 4K on the company’s 9904-UDX-4K card.
Support for ST 2022-7 continuous redundancy switching is added to improve network reliability, as well as IS‑04/IS-05 NMOS for automatic detection and configuration.
This included support makes connecting to an existing network a breeze, as devices are automatically discovered by network management and made available for interconnection.
Indigo, now available on the quad-path openGear 9905-MPx card, offers advanced processing with IP I/O and eliminates the need for external gateways.
When Indigo is combined with the openGear 9904-UDX-4K card, it creates a powerful and dense solution that is capable of natively processing HD, 3G and 4K IP streams without compromising quality.
The 9904 platform is capable of up/down/cross conversion, audio routing, color correction, 3D-LUT processing, and supports advanced Technicolor HDR.
Adding native ST 2110 interfaces to audio and video processing elements provides a cost-effective, integrated solution. Customers no longer need to place multiple boxes or processing elements in the data path to switch between IP and SDI. By processing natively over IP, all of this complexity is simplified and costs are significantly reduced.
Cobalt’s SafeLink Gateway was also highlighted, reliably transporting and providing protection for any live video and audio data over unsecured networks for legacy devices with low latency.
SafeLink, previously offered as a hardware solution on the company’s openGear OG-PC card, is now being released as a software-only form factor and includes support for UDP, RTP, FEC, and RIST Main Profile, with encryption and authentication.
Using Reliable Internet Transmission Transport (RIST), a low-latency protocol, SafeLink serves as a secure pipeline that ensures video is transported securely even in live production environments that may experience network delays .
The light version of the software can live on most computers or on Cobalt’s openGear OG-PC-x86 platform. Control is handled by DashBoard, a free application that handles control and monitoring of all openGear streaming products.
SafeLink can support up to 8 streams, which in turn can be sent to 8 destinations for a potential content transport of 64 destinations. SafeLink can also support up to 8 tunnels, each of which can support an arbitrary number of flows.
Cobalt has made Dante’s IP-based audio networking solution available to licensed users at a much higher density scale by incorporating the functionality into the company’s 9905-MPx quad channel in addition to the existing Dante solution. the 9904-UDX processing card.
+MPx-DANTE-64×64 supports embedding and de-embedding in four simultaneous SDI channels up to 3G-SDI with full audio routing capabilities between SDI, MADI and Dante, both in and out, adding up to 128 channels to cards 9905 for a very high-density solution without the need for new hardware.
Users will be able to ingest and process up to 64 channels of audio from the network and will be able to send up to 64 channels to the network using Dante and the Ethernet port.
Dante effortlessly replaces analog and digital point-to-point connections with software-based routing that sends AV channels anywhere on the network with digital fidelity.
