09/18/2024
openGear MC1 Master Control switcher at IBC2024
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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 best of breed product and budget options, all while ensuring common control and monitoring within the DashBoard ecosystem.
Several years ago Ross Video made a Standard Definition gear frame and line of terminal equipment products. We called this frame our 8000 Series and it was (is, we still make it) compatible with other industry products from companies like Harris (Leitch), Cobalt Digital and AJA. Given that the 8000 Series rear connector structure was fine for SD but not suitable for HD, we needed a new frame.
Rather than reinvent the wheel and design a new Ross frame, we thought that it would be best for us and our customers to find another company in the industry that was willing to let us develop cards that would be compatible with their existing frames. Making a gear frame is a surprising amount of work and effort and we thought if we could simply use an existing one it would be faster and simpler for us and our customers would have a range of choices available to them. We approached most of the major industry players to discuss this idea explaining that the advantage to them would be that by offering competition within their frame they would be able to win a larger share of the market.
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 in to 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.
