Ross Video Certifies Brioconcept as openGear® Developer

Iroquois, ON, Canada – August 18, 2009 – Ross Video announces certification of Brioconcept as developer for the openGear® signal processing platform.
Brioconcept has extensive experience in electronic design, offering services from ideas to production. Brioconcept’s core competencies include electronic design, high speed hardware design, firmware and HDL design, high speed simulation and thermal simulation.

“We are pleased with the partnership between Brioconcept and openGear®,” said Renaud Lavoie, President of Brioconcept. “Collaborating with openGear® partners will lead to accelerated custom hardware design and firmware developments in the marketplace.”

“Brioconcept brings a broad skill set to the openGear® platform,” said Eric Goodmurphy, Marketing Product Manager, openGear®. “They will be able to create a solution from initial planning to product development, and in reduced time and cost effectively.”

About openGear®
openGear® is an open-architecture, modular frame system designed by Ross Video and supported by a diverse range of signal processing manufacturers and developers. 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.

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 Signal Processing; BlackStorm Video Servers; OverDrive Production Control Systems and XPression Character Generators. 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 Specialist
t. (613) 652-3020
f. (613) 652-4425
e. sbell@rossvideo.com