AVnu Alliance and UNH-IOL launch certification program

The AVnu Alliance and the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL) last month launched an AVnu Bridge Certification program at UNH-IOL.

The AVnu Alliance is an industry forum dedicated to the advancement of professional-quality audio/video. The alliance promotes the adoption of the IEEE 802.1 Audio Video Bridging (AVB) standard and the related IEEE 1722 and IEEE 1733 standards over various networking link layers.

At an online press conference, Lee Minich, marketing work group chair of the AVnu Alliance and president of Lab X Technologies, and Bob Noseworthy, technical Sherpa UNH-IOL, noted that the certification program opened January 17 and that the alliance now has 50 members, including Analog Devices, Bosch, Bose, Broadcom, CISCO, Dolby, EADS, GM, Gibson, Harman, Intel, Lab X, Molex, Renesas, Sennheiser, Shure, Texas Instruments, Xilinx, Yamaha, and the IOL itself.

They noted that for professional A/V applications, AVnu supports live performance, commercial installation, and broadcast A/V. For automotive applications, it supports infotainment as well as driver-assist and control technologies. For consumers, the organization supports home theater and multiroom installations.

The UNH-IOL AVnu Bridge Certification program will test conformance and interoperability. UNH-IOL is a nonprofit industry/academic partnership that has been testing Ethernet technologies for 25 years. More than 100 student engineers and 20 staff members at IOL support more than 30 technologies, including AVnu, IPv6, IEEE 1588, 100 Gigabit Ethernet, and automotive Ethernet implementations.

IOL contributes to standards, develops test plans and tools, provides confidential reporting, and performs certification testing. It also provides a neutral environment in which issues can be resolved.

Minich and Noseworthy noted that certified interoperability will drive consumer confidence.