The plugfest - an invitation-only gathering of hardware manufacturers with near-market ready products - featured Harman and five other manufacturers testing interoperability and performance of AVB prototype technologies. During the plugfest, engineers from the different companies had a rare hands-on opportunity to test connectivity, interoperability and interfaces.
"The promise of AVB is universal connectivity with no performance compromises," said Rob Urry, Harman Professional CTO, vice president. "But to achieve this, all participants on the AVB network need to be able to connect and comprehensively test their technologies on the network. The plugfest enabled this testing but also provided a platform for remarkable, valuable dialogue between very smart, committed engineers from a host of companies.
"We were very pleased to host this plugfest and to mark another important milestone in the advancement of AVB."
Echoing this sentiment, Lee Minich, marketing working group chair, AVnu Alliance, and president, Lab X Technologies, noted, "Communication - whether it's for performance, commercial, medical or educational applications - is accelerated enormously by AV technologies. In turn, AVB is already making AV communications more effective, more usable and more affordable than ever before. This transformative IEEE protocol is enabled by the AVnu Alliance companies who attend plugfests to share ideas and experiences. Their communication at this event will eventually advance AV communications across our industry around the world."
(Jim Evans)
