Parent company of TC Electronic, Tannoy, Lab.gruppen, Lake and TC Helicon, the TC Group is the latest company to put its weight into the AVnu Alliance, bringing futher influence and expertise to the forum’s effort to establish the AVB open networking standard.

Announced at the opening of the Integrated Systems Europe show, TC Group CEO, Anders Fauerskov, said: ‘TC Group is driven by a pursuit to deliver fully flexible product solutions at the best possible value. As a consequence, open standards are the only way forward, and AVB is the logical answer for us. In joining the AVnu Alliance, we look forward to the opportunity to work together with the other alliance partners in driving the AVB standard forward.’

The AVnu Alliance is an industry forum dedicated to the establishment and promotion of the IEEE 802.1 Audio/Video Bridging (AVB) open network standard. As the TC Group is a major player in key sectors of the pro audio market, the move adds momentum and specific market and technological expertise to the efforts in establishing AVB as the preferred Ethernet-based audio and video networking environment for next generation products.

Interoperability has long been a key consideration for the group, as it strives to align its diverse portfolio of audio products, with the objective of offering the customer ease of integration and complete system compatibility. TC Group fully supports the move towards IEEE 802.1, stating that the establishment of AVB as the leading open standard will benefit customers, manufacturers and the industry as a whole by providing a level playing field for future product development while giving end users greater confidence in, and choice of, network-compatible devices. ‘We are very pleased to have TC Group join the ever-growing ranks of AVnu Alliance members committed to the proliferation of AVB technology,’ said Lee Minich, Marketing Work Group Chairman, and President of Lab X Technologies. ‘This support by their strong brands of Tannoy, Lab.gruppen and TC Electronic illustrates the sentiment of the professional, touring, and commercial install segments’ towards adoption of Audio Video Bridging.’

TC Group sees networked audio as a critical issue in pro audio – in both the install and tour world - and has already used digital audio networking across multiple branded components, such as the implementation of established Ethernet-based protocols in Lab.gruppen’s PLM Series and Lake’s LM 26. Development of technologies intended to be in line with proposed AVB standards is already being carried out by the group’s specialist division TC Applied Technologies and this formal announcement by TC Group to join AVnu Alliance goes some way to underlining those advances. It also gives substance to the company’s continual efforts to provide customers with the latest and most flexible interoperable system solutions – through the development of products that support AVB as well as other relevant network standards.

TC Group’s CTO, Morten Lave, added: ‘It is very exciting to be a member of this exclusive group; we have always been supportive of open standards. AVB, combined with AVnu’s dedication to create a compliance programme, is precisely what the industry needs at the moment.’