The U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force have selected RGB Spectrum’s new Zio 2 solution for networked video. Zio 2 is the company’s next generation of products within the revolutionary Zio Enterprise AV-over-IP platform, developed for government and civilian applications.
The U.S. Navy selected Zio 2 for shipboard networked video applications, the Air Force for advanced fighter simulation applications. Commercial release is set for this month.
Zio 2 joins the Zio AV-over-IP platform, an enterprise solution offering video distribution over LANs, WANs and mobile devices. The Zio platform combines scalable video distribution with multi-image display on individual monitors or across video walls.
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It includes an array of IP devices, including encoders, decoders, multi-viewers and video wall processors, all managed through a user interface providing video thumbnail previews and drag-and-drop simplicity. The Zio platform supports open standards to integrate video from third-party cameras and other devices.
The new Zio 2 delivers both H.264 and H.265 encoding/decoding. Moreover, a single input can be encoded at different bit rates. This enables a single device to encode video up to 4Kp60 to local decoders while simultaneously transmitting lower resolution, lower bandwidth streams to remote locations across a campus or the Internet.
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An open system, Zio 2 supports industry standard H.264/265 video from third party cameras and other devices.
The Zio 2 is available in multichannel configurations, with two and four channel encoders or decoders in a single compact unit for multiheaded or independent computer video signals. Also available is a new content server for control of video recording and playback.
Zio 2 is ideal for use in simulation, command and control and other mission-critical applications.
“Zio 2 is a new and different approach to enterprise AV-over-IP,” said RGB Spectrum CEO Bob Marcus. “By supporting multichannel codecs, industry standard H.264 and H.265 compression techniques, and sophisticated multiview displays, Zio 2 increases the reach of video distribution while simplifying its design.
“It is no wonder that in pre-release it was chosen by the U.S. Navy for shipboard networked video and by the Air Force for the latest generation of advanced simulators.”
