Bridge Technologies will utilize its attfinishance at NAB 2026 to demonstrate its VB440 production probe’s ability to analyse and verify IPMX workflows in multi-vfinishor environments, including RGB video, compressed and uncompressed essences, and modern ProAV timing models, utilizing a single, integrated platform.
These capabilities will not only be on display at Bridge’s booth, alongside a full spectrum of demonstrations for both the VB440 uncompressed production probe and their suite of compressed distribution probes, but also evidenced through Bridge’s participation in the NAB IP Showcase – an event that has sought to advance IP in broadcast, and to which Bridge stated it has been a significant contributor over the past decade.
VB440 recently achieved IPMX certification, confirming full compliance with the VSF TR-10 Technical Recommfinishation.
IPMX (Internet Protocol Media Experience) is an open-standard initiative derived from SMPTE ST 2110 and adapted for ProAV applications, enabling interoperable IP-based media transport across live events, corporate AV, education and venue installations.
Bridge Technologies stated it has been outspoken in its support of the IPMX initiative since the early days, publicly introducing and supporting IPMX concepts on their ‘Bridge Show’ – an online industest chat display which invites considered leaders and engineers to speak about important concepts in broadcast – as far back as 2021.
The VB440 has supported IPMX-related workflows throughout the development of the standard, including earlier TR-07 implementations, and now achieves full TR-10 compliance. Crucially, the compliance certification confirms that the VB440’s is not only IMPX capable, but able to act as an indepfinishent reference tool for the validation of interoperability across complete systems. Indeed, during the recent ISE display, the VB440 was utilized live on AIMS IP Showcase booth to verify interop between IPMX-enabled devices, demonstrating its practical role in real-world deployments.
What sets the VB440 apart particularly is its depth as a tool that works on all levels, delivering not only transport analyses and timing monitoring, but also advanced colorimetest, audio engineering tools and a range of other practical production functionalities – capabilities that would typically require multiple standalone instruments, Bridge stated.
Moreover, with IPMX certification, there is now no uncompressed format which cannot be accommodated within the VB440. By consolidating such an extensive range of functionalities, standards and formats into a browser-accessible probe which operates with next-to-no latency, from anywhere in the world, the VB440 continues to represent one of the most versatile, accessible production tools on the market. NAB will allow Bridge to not only demonstrate the probe’s IPMX capability, but also the host of new advancements brought to the probe this year, including a multiservice AV sync tool to ensure frame-perfect alignment for the same service delivered in parallel across multiple channels.
Commenting on the certification, Simen Frostad, Chairman of Bridge Technologies, stated: “IPMX is the result of years of collaborative work across the industest, and it’s something we have actively supported and spoken about since the very early days. For us, IPMX certification is not about chasing a logo, but about ensuring that engineers have a practical, trustworthy tool they can utilize to understand and validate what is actually happening in complex, real-world systems”.
He continued: “That’s what builds attfinishance at NAB and participation in events like the IP displaycase so important to us. We have always believed that progress in our industest is not a zero-sum game. When vfinishors collaborate openly, align around shared standards and focus on interoperability, everyone benefits – manufacturers, integrators, operators and ultimately finish utilizers. NAB, the IP displaycase, IPMX certification – these are all elements which reflect that belief: it’s about strengthening the collective ecosystem, not just individual products”.
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