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What is STAGENET ?STAGENET is an easy-to-use control software to manage and monitor Audio/Video signals in IT networks basing on open standards like ST 2110, AES67 or NMOS. _____________ STAGENET: IP made simple stagenet.com
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Who is behind STAGENET ?Behind STAGENET is a community of manufacturers and users sharing the conviction that IP signal management must become easy-to-use. Initial members are STAGETEC, ARISTA, MATROX, MERGING and SIMPLEXITY. ___________ STAGENET: IP made simple stagenet.com
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When was STAGENET presented to the public the first time?STAGENET was launched on May 3rd 2022 at the rAVe launch event as a community of people who share the same conviction: Today audio and video signal management must be intuitive, reliable and, despite everything, flexible! Five industry leaders teamed up to create a solution that sets the standard for user-friendly, intuitive web-interface-based software that is as easy to use as a smartphone. First time on a trade show STAGENET was presented in Europe at ISE Barcelona in May 2022 and in North America at Infocom in June 2022. Watch the launch event, you’ll hear from: -) Gary Kayye, Director & Co-Founder, THE rAVe Agency -) Stefan Ledergerber, CEO, Simplexity GmbH -) Gerard Phillips, Systems Engineer, ARISTA Networks -) Rehman Leigh, Product Specialist – STAGENET at STAGETEC -) Maurice Engler, Product Manager, Merging Technologies SA -) Daniel Maloney, Technical Marketing Manager , Matrox ___________ STAGENET: IP made simple stagenet.com
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What is Arista Networks famous for?Arista Networks is an industry leader in high performance, high reliability networking for large Datacenters, Enterprise, Campus, Routing and Media & Entertainment environments. By joining STAGENET we are now bringing that world-class capability, expertise and experience to the pro-AV and multimedia systems, integration markets. Delivering simplicity and making IP simple. As a partner of STAGENET Gerard Phillips introduces Arista Networks. Watch the videos to find out more! ___________ STAGENET: IP made simple stagenet.com
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Why are Merging Technologies converters so popular, when it comes to audio quality?Merging Technologies is providing to the most prestigious concert halls, recording studios with hardware and software since more than 30 years because of its quality of sound and summing signal flow without compromises. Today the AD Mic Preamps have up to 137 dB dynamic range with dual gain topology In Anubis and in the cards fitting in the Hapi MkII or the Horus. ___________ STAGENET: IP made simple stagenet.com
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What is Merging Technologies famous for?As a partner of STAGENET Maurice Engler introduces Merging Technologies, a Swiss manufacturer of high-resolution digital audio recording and editing systems, rock stable multi-speaker playout systems, networkable high-end audio converters and of a comprehensive cross platform & cross vendor audio network manager. Merging believes that providing solutions and workflows is more important than just supplying a product. If we don’t make it all, we partner with companies that can bridge the gaps. Watch the videos to find out more! ___________ STAGENET is a new and easy-to-use control software via an intuitive web interface to manage and monitor audio/video signals in IT networks based on open standards. It has been developed as a team effort by five industry leaders, initiated by STAGETEC. stagenet.com
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What is Matrox famous for?As a partner of STAGENET, Daniel Maloney introduces Matrox, a leading manufacturer of video products and components for the broadcast and media, live entertainment, and Pro AV markets. Matrox mission, is to create innovative products that enable customers to harness the power of video to entertain, communicate, and make critical decisions. STAGENET is here to embrace this and harness the power of video. Watch the videos to find out more! ___________ STAGENET is a new and easy-to-use control software via an intuitive web interface to manage and monitor audio/video signals in IT networks based on open standards. It has been developed as a team effort by five industry leaders, initiated by STAGETEC. Find out, what STAGENET can do for you and your individual application needs and join our community! stagenet.com #ipmadesimple#audiooverip#videooverip#arista#mergingtechnologies#matrox#simplexity#stagetec#aes67#smpte2110#ipmx#nmos#avtweeps
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What does the Matrox ConvertIP bring to the STAGENET party?The Matrox ConvertIP product unique combination of field programmability and rugged, fan-less design means it’s likely to become part of every digital AV technician’s toolkit. There’s a separate unit for SDI, HDMI & HDbaseT, each can be configured to be an input or output device as required and they support baseband and compressed ST2110/IPMX transport formats. The compact design includes many handy mounting options to keep it secure in those awkward spaces and it even supports power-over-ethernet to minimise cabling. We believe the combination of STAGENET control and Matrox hardware technology will be compelling in the live production/Pro-AV markets for those making the move to open-standards digital AV transport. ___________ STAGENET: IP made simple stagenet.com
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Arista Networks are well known in the SMPTE ST2110 world, but are they a player in the Pro-AV market too?Arista's switching and routing product ranges are really well suited to the high demands of broadcast live production environments; reliability, low latency, scale and PTP accuracy are all a very good fit. While the Pro-AV requirements are not exactly the same, they are very similar. Attention to delivering resilience and performance make sure that the "show does go on", and cloud grade automation in the STAGENET framework brings high levels of simplicity to the deployment phase. Arista's culture and focus on quality and customer satisfaction brings peace of mind to operators, and allows them to concentrate on delivering captivating content and performances! ___________ STAGENET: IP made simple stagenet.com
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What is it about the STAGENET product that attracted Matrox to become part of the project?Matrox has been deeply involved with the introduction of ST2110 into the broadcast industry and our products can already be found in most broadcast deployments of ST2110 worldwide. STAGENET allows Matrox to bring our existing expertise and reliability in ST2110, SDI, HDMI & HDbaseT technology to the live production/Pro-AV market with a series of partners familiar with this market and with a user interface designed to make setup and management of ST2110 installations simple and intuitive. Together, the STAGENET partners will offer the right combination of components to make the adoption of open-standards video-over-IP in the live production market quick and straightforward. ___________ STAGENET: IP made simple stagenet.com
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What is Simplexity famous for?As a partner of STAGENET, Stefan Ledergerber introduces Simplexity and how their services address the challenges of transitioning to IP based audio and video. Creating value from years of industry experience and learning from mistakes from others. Watch the videos to find out more! ___________STAGENET: IP made simple stagenet.com
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Simplexity claims to be a manufacturer-independent consulting company. Is being part of the STAGENET community not compromising your neutrality?As Simplexity we provide our knowledge and experience to the industry, where we earn our income through this service. Our knowledge and experience are available to all our customers who engage us in their projects. What we advise the STAGENET community is the same as we would to anyone else. We gain no commercial benefit from selling STAGENET systems. It is what we believe to be right and as such, we are independent. ___________ STAGENET is a new and easy-to-use control software via an intuitive web interface to manage and monitor audio/video signals in IT networks based on open standards. It has been developed as a team effort by five industry leaders, initiated by STAGETEC. Find out, what STAGENET can do for you and your individual application needs and join our community! stagenet.com #ipmadesimple#audiooverip#videooverip#arista#mergingtechnologies#matrox#simplexity#stagetec#aes67#smpte2110#ipmx#nmos#avtweeps
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What is STAGETEC famous for?As a partner of STAGENET, Managing Director Rene Harder introduces STAGETEC, one of the pioneers of innovative professional audio technology for broadcast, theater, and AVI installations. STAGETEC provides efficient and reliable signal management solutions for audio, video, IP, interfaces as well as mixing console systems with which content can be produced and distributed easily, quickly and reliably today - and all this "Made in Germany & Switzerland". Watch the videos to find out more! ___________ STAGENET: IP made simple stagenet.com
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Which products are compatible with STAGENET?The list of supported devices grows continuously. See regular updates on the website stagenet.com and join our community. Subscribe to our newsletter to stay up-to-date. ___________ STAGENET: IP made simple stagenet.com
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What made STAGETEC gravitate towards the idea of STAGENET?Whilst STAGETEC has been a strong industry leader in the world of hardware technology, for us the industry is clearly pointing towards a new age of software based IP Audio. Signal management and IP configuration take up a considerable amount of our time, and we see a clear market for STAGENET. The idea of easy to use signal management is a natural evolution in our eyes, and see STAGENET as the perfect solution for issues we see every day. ___________ STAGENET: IP made simple stagenet.com
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Can you explain the system overview of STAGENET?Stefan Ledergerber explains the system overview of STAGENET. Watch our video! ___________ STAGENET: IP made simple stagenet.com
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How can STAGENET be used in day to day projects for STAGETEC?With the complexity of IP, STAGENET for us can be used to simplify our integration process across IP networks. Instead of spending hours setting up a switch we are able to connect our hardware alongside our community partners and get stuck straight into working with our audio gear, saving hours of configuration. The user interface also provides as a great interface for controlling our IOs along with routing on the fly. We are able to not only control audio but video as well in a singular easy to use platform that requires minimal training. ___________ STAGENET: IP made simple stagenet.com
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What role does STAGETEC take within the STAGENET community?Being one of the initiators of the idea, STAGETEC not only provides as an open door to the R&D of all our famous audio technology but also act as the central hub for all sales and support related requests, ensuring communication is streamlined. ___________ STAGENET: IP made simple stagenet.com
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