openGear® Platform Expands with Rascular Technology

Tuesday, July 31, 2012 [Iroquois, ON, Canada] – Ross Video expands the openGear partnership with UK based Rascular Technology. Rascular offers a one-stop software application that controls equipment from a diverse set of manufacturers in an on-air environment.

Helm – Rascular’s flagship product – is a fully user-configurable, PC-based application providing either mouse-driven or touchscreen control and monitoring via TCP/IP for a wide range of broadcast equipment workflows.

“Helm allows customers to select from best-of-breed technologies,” said Ephraim Barrett, Rascular’s Sales Director. “By integrating with Ross’ openGear standard, Helm now has the potential to control any and all technology in the openGear platform.”

“With the addition of Rascular, we continue to grow the openGear platform partnership with over 20 partners,” said Eric Goodmurphy, Infrastructure Marketing Product Manager at Ross Video. “It’s important to Ross that openGear customers can purchase the best products to meet their needs in price and delivery, and Rascular’s Helm provides customers with yet another choice.”

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 3^rd 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.

About Rascular Technology
Rascular Technology is a UK based broadcast software company, specializing in the development of software control technology for third-party hardware playout devices. This allows broadcasters to benefit from the use of best-of-breed hardware playout devices from a range of manufacturers yet to be able to control set-up and on-air functionality remotely from a single screen. For further information see www.rascular.com.

About Ross Video
Ross Video designs, manufactures and supports a wide range of innovative products for use in video production applications. Ross’ award winning product line includes Vision, Vision Octane, CrossOver and Carbonite Video Production Switchers; openGear, RossGear and GearLite Terminal Equipment; BlackStorm and SoftMetal Video Servers; OverDrive Automated Production Control Systems and Inception Social Media Management System; XPression Character and 3D Graphics Generator; NK Series Routing Systems and Ross Robotics. 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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