Census Digital Joins openGear platform

Iroquois, ON, Canada – April 11, 2011 – Census Digital based out of Toronto, Canada joins the openGear platform, developing products for audio and video signal management and processing.

“Being a part of openGear fits with our criteria of customer driven solutions”, said Michael Jordan Director of Sales & Marketing for Census Digital. “Thank you Ross for creating such an awesome platform that truly puts the customer first.”

“We are excited about the opportunities Census Digital will offer the openGear platform,” said Eric Goodmurphy, Marketing Product Manager – Gear for Ross Video. “This partnership will broaden the audio and video offerings, and give our customers another choice of technology to choose from that best suits their application.”

About Census Digital
Census Digital develops cost effective, customer driven solutions, and shares a passion for helping you to succeed. Based on the openGear platform, Census Digital products are built to address the needs of today’s signal management and processing markets. Census Digital is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. For further information please visit us at NAB booth number N4317 in the North Hall.

About openGear
openGear is an open-architecture, modular frame system designed by Ross Video and supported by a diverse range of terminal equipment manufacturers. The platform offers clients the freedom to choose technology from a wide range of products to meet the needs of a broadcast, production, or distribution facility while maintaining a compatible openGear frame infrastructure. The Ross Dashboard Remote Control and Monitoring System and companion SNMP plug-in enables unified control over all openGear cards in a system as well as for openGear to tie in with 3rd party SNMP based systems. The openGear modules offered by Ross include a broad selection of audio and video products for distribution, analog conversion, Up/Down/X format conversion, fiber, switching, keying and synchronization, as well as backward compatibility with a suite of solutions from the RossGear 8000 series. More information about openGear…

About Ross Video
Ross Video designs, manufactures and supports a wide range of innovative products for use in live production applications. Ross’ award winning product line includes Vision, Vision Octane and CrossOver Video Production Switchers; openGear, RossGear and GearLite Terminal Equipment; SoftMetal Video Servers; OverDrive Production Control Systems, XPression Character Generators and NK Series Routing Systems. Ross products are installed in over 100 countries around the world, where they are used daily by top broadcasters, production companies, sports stadiums, government agencies and houses of worship.

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For further information, please contact:
Sara Bell
Media Relations Co-ordinator
t. (613) 652-3020
f. (613) 652-4425
e. sbell@rossvideo.com