Klaus-Joerg Jasper, Senior Sales Director of Lawo, presents Lawo innovations at the 1st International Exhibition and Conference Broadcasting/Pro AV 2022, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Lawo
Lawo is an international company based in Rastatt, Germany, and it designs and manufactures pioneering audio, video, network and control technology for TV and radio broadcast, performing arts, houses of worship, stadiums and corporate applications. Products include IP-based media infrastructure solutions, control and monitoring systems, digital audio mixing consoles and video processing tools. The family-owned company was founded in 1970 by Peter Lawo.
In 2020, Lawo celebrated 50 years of engineering the future. Founded initially as an engineering office with a focus on audio and broadcast, the privately-owned corporation grew into an industry-wide accepted innovator who continues to actively shape the future of broadcast and media production. Lawo has been a pioneer in IP development for broadcast and continues to believe strongly in the importance of interoperability.
HOME
Management platform for IP-based media infrastructures
HOME is a management platform for IP-based media infrastructures. It is designed to connect, manage and secure all aspects and instances of live production environments. HOME provides the tools and centralized services for swift and effective interaction of engineers with their tools.
HOME is cloud-native by design and ready to run anywhere, irrespective of the system’s size. With HOME, the cloud starts on your campus, private and locally. It turns an array of devices, setups, sites, hubs and data centers into a powerful, agile network — quickly and in a perfectly secure way.
Virtual Studio Manager
IP Broadcast Control and Workflow Solution
A VSM IP control system brings together all the requirements for a safe and flexible broadcast operation. The “everything under one roof” philosophy unites technical devices and operators in a most adaptable way. User panels and interfaces can be configured without limitation to meet the requirements of different workflows and applications, while the whole system is under redundant control.
The IP infrastructure of a VSM network, including all control panels, interfaces and external devices, guarantees easy installation. All the advantages of IP connectivity, such as its high data performance and standard management components, increase the power of a complete broadcast system. As a unique feature, real time feedback from every single crosspoint and parameter is available, as well as special applications such as audio metering via the protocol. All VSM user interfaces display the confirmed action from an attached device. This guarantees maximum transparency for every operator and every control unit.
V__matrix
IP-based Software-Defined Video Processing and Multiviewer Platform
V__matrix is an IP broadcast video core infrastructure product which quickly transforms any broadcast installation into a flexible, future-proof production facility. It addresses a wide range of workflows and supports your transition to a totally IP-based environment by offering a completely virtualized real-time routing and processing infrastructure.
Instead of connecting single-purpose modular products in elaborate production chains, V__matrix is based on the data center principles of flexibility, fabric computing and COTS economics, and makes these available to any live production broadcast environment.
Its ecosystem is based on generic, high-capacity FPGA-based processing blades upon which Virtual Modules are loaded to create the functionality required.
The functionality of any processing blade can be exchanged, enabling system capabilities to easily be modified or upgraded to address your constantly changing business requirements.And the Virtual Modules can be assigned to a particular processing blade or be stored in an on-site license server allowing for unprecedented flexibility.
.edge
Hyper-Density SDI/IP Conversion and Routing Platform
.edge is designed with simplicity, flexibility, agility and economic efficiency in mind. Software-defined by nature, it can be used as a feature-laden replacement for traditional SDI routers, and expanded with flexible software licenses to provide the perfect mix of advanced features.
.edge’s compact 2RU housing accommodates up to 192 HD-BNC connectors for SDI and MADI interfacing and can be clustered to provide matrices well beyond 1152 x 1152 crosspoints. Your next large SDI router can be IP-native, 24RU small, consume only 24x 100Gbps network ports—a third of what other offerings require—and still be more powerful, scalable and future-proof.
Support for the SMPTE ST2110 suite of standards with SMPTE ST 2022-7 redundancy is built in, providing not only advanced essence-based handling but also ensuring seamless protection switching of audio, video and ancillary data streams in both local and wide-area network operations.
mc2Audio Production Consoles
mc2 is a series of Production Consoles which consist of:
mc²96 – Grand Production Console.
The mc²96 provides optimized performance within IP video production environments with native ST2110 support. In addition, the revolutionary LiveView feature enables thumbnail previews of video streams directly in the fader labeling displays.
mc²56 – Audio Production Console.
The mc² 56 incorporates several groundbreaking features from Lawo’s mc² 96 flagship console, without sacrificing the identity of its predecessors – retaining virtues like compact size, flexibility and versatile design for applications ranging from broadcast trucks and studios to live performance and recording.
mc²36 – All-in-one Audio Production Console.
The mc²36 is sleeker than its predecessor but boasts double the number of DSP channels, both at 48 kHz and 96 kHz. It delivers the same superb convenience as its larger siblings: all industry-standard audio inputs and outputs are built-in, with native IP connectivity at its center.
A__UHD
Audio engine for Lawo’s mc² audio production consoles
A__UHD Core is the next-generation audio engine for Lawo’s mc² audio production consoles. Designed as a network-based, software-defined IP DSP engine with unparalleled processing density, it catapults mc²56 and mc²96 consoles into the next dimension.
Its ultra-high processing density translates into 1,024 mc²-grade DSP channels, which can either be utilized by a single mc² console, for coping with even the most challenging productions, or be shared amongst multiple consoles for effective and space-efficient resource pooling.
Thanks to a flexible licensing model, the A__UHD Core is ideal for both mobile applications and facility use. For mobile productions, the scalable DSP performance with temporary licenses is a great way to turn CapEx into OpEx, whilst in facility applications, the possibility of resource pooling and flexible allocation of DSP resources to multiple physical and GUI-based mixing surfaces maximizes ROI for your audio infrastructure.
IP Radio Consoles
crystal
crystal gives users all of the flexibility and customizability Lawo is known for, and with RAVENNA / AES67 connectivity, provides a future-proof investment for both commercial and public broadcasters. Designed for today’s radio workflows, crystal comes with Lawo VisTool, a powerful touchscreen-optimized PC software that provides visual control of essential crystal functions.
diamond
diamond is completely modular and configurable to your most specific wishes. The console is scalable from as few as 2 to as many as 60 physical faders, and optional virtual extensions provide immediate information for every function. Touch-sensitive faders and rotary controls with vibrant, full-color displays. So much power — delivered with all the style and finesse that broadcasters expect from Lawo broadcast consoles.
RƎLAY
RƎLAY brings professional radio production to your PC. Mixing. Streaming. Processing. Even routing. AoIP-ready, so you can mix and route both networked and PC audio. With touch-screen GUIs so intuitive, talent can learn it in minutes. Perfect for production, live studios, newsrooms — even remotes and OB work.
VisTool
With VisTool, the optional virtual UI for studio or remote applications, your operators finally have single-point access to all the tools they use daily. VisTool’s rich graphical GUI is instantly understandable, because it works the same way tablets and touchscreens do — intuitively, with control right at your fingertips.
VisTool can control all of Lawo’s powerful mixing engine platforms, including Power Core, Compact Engine and Nova17. Total power is just a touch away.
A__Line
WAN-Capable Audio-over-IP Nodes
A__line nodes allow direct and flexible access to audio signals. With their pristine sound, their fully standardized ST2110 audio streaming capabilities and ST2022-7 class C streaming resilience, you are set for any production, from local to global scale.
The nodes are designed to serve as IP audio stageboxes for mc² consoles, audio extensions for the V__matrix ecosystem, or as stand-alone IP audio gateways.
A__line provides audio connectivity in distributed locations. It allows to easily adapt to changing I/O requirements and to scale audio I/O capacity in a networked system — temporarily or permanently.
Based on an SMPTE ST2110-compliant IP audio backbone, A__line offers a granular audio format selection similar to the flexibility found in baseband modular I/O systems. The same backbone technology furthermore eliminates typical system design limitations like maximum channel count per frame, fixed channel capacity per device interconnect, or fixed overall system size.
Lawo Experience
Lawo Experience is a virtual world where you can explore everything about Lawo products and their use.
! The next Broadcasting/Pro AV conference will be held October 11-12, 2022 in Kazakhstan, Almaty.
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