Ross Joins SRT Alliance To Expand Open Source Development of SRT Protocol

Ottawa, Canada, September 25^th 2020 – Ross Video is very pleased to announce that the company has become the latest member of the SRT Alliance, the open-source initiative dedicated to overcoming the challenges of low-latency video streaming.

The SRT Alliance, founded by Haivision in April 2017, already has more than 400 members. Its mission is to overcome the challenges of low-latency live streaming by supporting the collaborative development of SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) Open Source, the fastest growing open source streaming project. SRT is a free open source video transport protocol and technology stack originally developed and pioneered by Haivision that enables the delivery of high-quality and secure, low-latency video across the public internet.

Commenting on the news, Ross Video CTO Troy English said “Ross is very happy to join the SRT Alliance and to contribute to their work addressing the challenges around high performance, low-latency, secure and reliable streaming across the public Internet. We have had interest from our clients in integrating SRT with our product portfolio and we are actively developing these capabilities. Ross has a strong history of innovation in a variety of different hardware and software fields, and we look forward to bringing that expertise to bear in our dealings with the SRT Alliance and its members.”

“We’re thrilled that Ross has joined the SRT Alliance, an industry movement to improve the way the world streams video,” said Jesús (Suso) Carrillo, Director SRT Alliance at Haivision. “As one of the leading manufacturers of live production equipment, Ross will provide its customers with best-in-class SRT solutions to help them with their remote and cloud production workflows.”

Ross Video – High Impact, High Efficiency Production Solutions
Ross powers video productions for billions of global viewers daily with the industry’s widest range of high impact, high efficiency production solutions. Ross makes it easy to create compelling news, weather and and sports broadcasts, engaging material for sports stadium screens, entertainment shows and rock concerts, educational institutions, legislative assemblies, corporate applications and inspiring content for houses of worship.

Ross solutions have impressed the audiences and marketing partners of Eurosport, BBC World, Google YouTube Space London, and the esports powerhouse ESL. Ross provides an unrivalled range of products and services that includes cameras, real-time motion graphics, production switchers, robotic camera systems, augmented reality/virtual studios, video servers, infrastructure and routers, social media management, newsroom systems and live event production services.

Ross Video Media Contact:
Stuart G. Russell
Senior Communications Manager
Tel: +44 7827 019494
Email: srussell@rossvideo.com
Twitter: @ross_video
www.rossvideo.com

About the SRT Open Source Project & SRT Alliance
SRT is an open source video transport protocol and technology stack, developed and pioneered by Haivision, that optimizes streaming performance across unpredictable networks with secure streams and easy firewall traversal, bringing the best quality live video over the worst networks. The SRT Open Source Project, supported by the SRT Alliance, is a collaborative community of industry leaders and developers striving to achieve lower latency internet video transport by continuously improving open-source SRT. For more information about the project and how to join the SRT Alliance, visit srtalliance.org.

Director SRT Alliance
Jesús (Suso) Carrillo
+34 649 801 593
director@srtalliance.org
suso@haivision.com