Audio consultancy and networking analyst RH Consulting (RHC) has published the 11th edition of its networked audio products and licensees report. The report covers all major protocols, including Dante, Ravenna, AES67, AVB and Milan.
Following the inclusion of video and control protocols last year, RHC has now added IPMX and NDI, and will further broaden the scope in the future.
The statistics show that the number of networked A/V products on the market continues to grow, with the total number of products being shipped being charted at 5,219, from 552 different brands. This increase of more than 1,000 from last year’s report suggests that the industry is successfully rebounding from a rough spell of years caused by Covid-19. Dante again shows its dominance in the Audio-over-IP (AoIP) sector, bring more products to the market than the other protocols combined, and Ravenna continues steady progress in second place as the protocol of choice in the broadcast industry.
‘Video adoption over IP has been slower than audio due to bandwidth limitations allowing only a few video channels to pass, increasing bandwidth demands for improving video quality, and unsustainable single-manufacturer solutions,’ says Roland Hemming, from RHC. ‘We observed that many of the products are simply video encoders/decoders, which reminds us of the early days of AoIP.
‘It’s reassuring to see that the number of products on the market continues to grow in the face of supply chain shortages,’ Hemming adds. ‘The Video networking market is still in its infancy when compared to AoIP, but now that we have collated two years’ data, we can begin to draw a line. NDI is currently leading the charge in this category in terms of overall manufacture and distribution, and is also making the most concerted effort to embed this technology inside products. We’re excited to see how this develops in the future as technologies improve.’
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