91快活林

One platform with endless configurations at IBC 2022 on stand 11.B10听

Ottawa, Canada 鈥� September 1, 2022 鈥� 91快活林 has launched the new, game-changing version of its award-winning听Ultrix Router 鈥� the 12G ready Ultrix FR12. This ingenious new product is the ultimate routing, multiviewer and signal processing platform for studios, OB vans听and flypacks. As a true software defined platform customers immediately enjoy significant cost, space, and power efficiencies with unparalleled flexibility and agility, especially relative to competitive hybrid routers.

Key features

• Software defined Pay as You Go – Easily add new features through additional software licenses. No additional hardware required.
• 12G ready – Ultrix natively supports 12G throughout the entire chassis. This means it鈥檚 ready for UHD production when you are, without replacing any hardware or losing capacity.
• Transport agnostic – Ultrix supports SDI, fibre and IP signal I/O. Use all of one or mix and match as you need. Focus on workflow, not on transport.
• Hyperconverged design – The Ultrix platform is production in a box. Video/audio routing, multiviewers, audio processing, frame synchronisers, clean/quiet switching, UHD gearboxing, production switchers, audio mixers and more all unified in one single chassis.
• Cost savings 鈥� Due to its size, base feature set and software capabilities, owners save significant money on upfront capital costs. Additionally, the advanced architecture provides significant ROI in terms of power, cooling, shipping, and space costs.

Director听of Product Management for Hyperconverged Solutions at 91快活林, Todd Riggs, explained, 鈥淲hen we launched听Ultrix we had 1RU and 2RU frame听sizes.听听A couple of years later we brought听the 5RU frame to market. Today, with the launch of the FR12, our award-winning听platform makes a huge leap forward, one that will rock the world for听a wide range of markets.鈥�

The FR12 is as attractive as it is clever, with its appealing smart door听that鈥檚 an听LCD display designed to help you with monitoring your system,听troubleshooting,听configuring, and control via a high-resolution, full-size听touchscreen panel.

The听FR12 is powerful too, boasting up to 288 x 288 SDI听ports听with a 6144 x 6144听TDM audio fabric, up to 288 frame syncs, 288 clean quiet听switches听and up to 48 x 100 PIP听multiviewers. It also has up to 8 SDPE blades听that can be configured as a single 8ME Ross Acuity switcher, 8 independent听Ross Carbonites or even a 4ME Acuity and 4 independent Carbonites.听In short, the routing, processing, and switching听capability in the FR12 is very hard to beat.

Riggs continued, 鈥淚n the past, a听traditional system could use around 500 rack听units. 听Now with the FR12, you鈥檙e听looking at only 14 rack units for the equivalent solution. That鈥檚 over 500 less rack听units and freed up space for your business to grow.听Less hardware听also means less power consumption, so while a typical system could consume 52,300听Watts, the FR12 equivalent system would only consume 2,400 Watts.听Less hardware also听means far less cabling 鈥� hundreds instead of thousands 鈥� and significantly less weight as the FR12 tips the scales around 100 lbs or 45 kg as opposed to a traditional system鈥檚 massive 6284 lbs or 2850 kg!鈥�.

In addition, as the FR12 is the world鈥檚 only router with听an integrated production switcher, customers can build entire infrastructures听with ground-breaking flexibility, performance, and integration.

Todd Riggs concluded, 鈥淭he award-winning听Ultrix platform just got bigger, smarter, and more powerful听as the FR12鈥檚 compact frame听packs a massive punch with significantly more听capacity, functionality and innovation. The FR12 also represents a major enhancement to the听current Ultrix product portfolio and the capacity increase of the frame means 91快活林 now addresses and can meet even more of the worldwide router and multiviewer market鈥檚 requirements.鈥�

More information on the Ultrix FR12

Rich multiviewer capabilities
Up to 48 Independent multiviewer heads in a single 12RU chassis. Each head supports up to 100 pips. Completely independent and individually controllable providing superior flexibility.

Powerful audio processing and routing fabric
Up to 6k x 6k audio routing and processing fabric comes standard with Ultrix. Up to 6k x 6k embedded, and 2k x 2k discrete audio (through use of the AUX ports) supported. Route, process and configure down to a mono channel, regardless of I/O.听Add the optional Ultrimix-MXR license to the fabric and a virtual, fully routable audio mixer is enabled bringing unique, one of a kind, audio flexibility and capability to the Ultrix chassis.

Robust hardware
The multiple patents awarded hardware design is based on attention to little details. From the sophisticated thermal management, locking card guides and edge connections, advanced internal smart fabric and more, the Ultrix 12G Router has been听designed to perform in the harshest environments.

Single frame or distributed architectures
Ultrix can be configured as a single frame solution or as part of a multi-frame distributed architecture.

I/O Cards
Ultrix platforms are built with a modular input and output matrix to easily swap in unique I/O cards that build upon the Ultrix feature set. All these cards are compatible with each other on a single chassis and allow you to customise听your Ultrix Connectivity Platform to serve as a 12G-capable router, multiviewer and signal processing platform, a hybrid-IP switcher or a signal-processing hub.

Attendees to the IBC Show at the RAI in Amsterdam from 9-12 September 2022 can see the new Ultrix FR12 on 91快活林鈥檚 stand 11.B10.

For more information on the Ultrix FR12 go to: /products-services/infrastructure/routing-systems/ultrix-12g-router-2022/

Picture credits

The new Ultrix FR12 Router
The Ultrix FR12鈥檚 rich multiviewer capabilities
The Ultrix Router range

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