With ISE 2026 nearly upon us, Commercial Integrator sought out Catherine Koutsaris, product marketing manager at Matrox Video, to learn more about the company’s plans for the show. Matrox Video will be exhibiting at Booth 5E390.
Catherine Koutsaris Talks Matrox Video at ISE 2026
During the conversation, Koutsaris discusses a range of hot topics, including
- trends in AV systems design and deployment
- the rise of IP-based media workflows
- the benefits of an ecosystem approach
- key themes the company will showcase at the booth
- and much, much more!
Read on to learn much more about Matrox Video’s vision for the future of pro AV. And check out the Matrox Video booth, 5E390, when you get to Barcelona.
Commercial Integrator: ISE 2026 brings together AV and IT like no other show. From the Matrox Video perspective, what major shifts are you seeing in how professional AV systems are being designed and deployed today?
Catherine Koutsaris: We’re seeing a clear shift toward more flexible, interoperable, IP-based architectures that can scale across networks instead of relying on fixed point-to-point designs. Customers are prioritizing consistent quality and real-time performance while ensuring systems can evolve over time. We are leveraging advancements in the IT world to improve on what we can offer to the AV world as they converge more and more.
Commercial Integrator: What types of pro AV environments — such as corporate campuses, control rooms, or live event spaces — are seeing the greatest benefit from IP-based media workflows today?
Catherine Koutsaris:
- Control rooms: routing, low-latency monitoring, multi-source switching
- Corporate campuses: scalable AV distribution across buildings/floors
- Live events + venues: flexible signal distribution and rapid setup changes
- Broadcast studios / hybrid production: ST 2110-style workflows + high quality
- Medical / imaging environments: high-resolution, reliability, secure access
- Education: centralized management, multi-room content distribution
Commercial Integrator: Systems integrators often need to combine solutions from multiple vendors. How does the Matrox Video ecosystem approach help reduce complexity and risk in multi-vendor AV-over-IP deployments?
Catherine Koutsaris: By supporting open standards like IPMX, ST 2110 and NMOS, Matrox Video helps integrators deploy multi-vendor systems with more predictable interoperability and fewer integration surprises. This reduces lock-in risk and makes it easier to fit into real-world networks, workflows, and control environments.
Commercial Integrator: Open standards like ST 2110 and IPMX are gaining traction in pro AV. What practical benefits do these standards deliver to integrators and end users compared to proprietary approaches?
Catherine Koutsaris: Open standards enable true interoperability, giving integrators the freedom to select best-of-breed solutions without being locked into a single vendor ecosystem. The result is more flexible system design, easier expansion, and better long-term investment protection. It also allows them to scale their project in the future as their needs evolve. They can simply add new equipment as needed, while being sure it will be interoperable with their existing setup.
Commercial Integrator: What will be the key themes Matrox Video is showcasing at ISE 2026? And why should systems integrators make a point to visit your booth?
Catherine Koutsaris: Matrox Video is highlighting new AV-over-IP capabilities that improve flexibility, operational efficiency, and real-time control across pro AV environments with live, interoperable workflows. Demonstrations include updated video wall appliances, IP KVM extenders, IP video gateways, and more working together to show practical system deployments. Integrators should stop by to see these end-to-end capabilities in action and understand how to balance quality, latency, and bandwidth for real projects.
Commercial Integrator: Matrox Video is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. What does that milestone represent in terms of trust, engineering philosophy, and long-term customer relationships?
Catherine Koutsaris: Fifty years in the industry reflects Matrox Video’s sustained focus on reliability, performance, and building devices that customers can depend on in mission-critical applications. Over decades of serving broadcast, enterprise, medical, education, and pro AV markets, that experience has fostered long-term relationships grounded in responsive support, stable products, and practical engineering that solves real challenges. This milestone underscores a legacy of quality and a continued commitment to delivering technology that helps integrators and customers confidently meet evolving system requirements.
Commercial Integrator: If there’s one takeaway Matrox Video wants Commercial Integrator readers to have heading into ISE 2026, what would it be?
Catherine Koutsaris: In pro AV today, success comes from building an ecosystem where best-of-breed solutions can work together in real multi-vendor environments. Open standards enable interoperability and give integrators the freedom to design workflows around the customer’s needs, not a single vendor’s roadmap. Matrox Video is focused on helping integrators deliver reliable, scalable AV-over-IP systems that perform in the field and evolve over time.
