The SDVoE™ Alliance today announced that Panduit™, a leading global provider of
network infrastructure, has joined the alliance as a contributing member. Panduit
will work toward the organization’s goals of standardizing the adoption of Ethernet
to transport AV signals in professional AV environments, and creating an ecosystem
around SDVoE technology that allows software to define AV applications.

“Panduit is excited to be the first cabling and connectivity manufacturer to join the
SDVoE Alliance as a contributing member,’ said Dennis Renaud, vice president of
Panduit’s Enterprise business. “The Alliance and Panduit have similar goals of
promoting the expansion and standardization of an AV-over-IP solution. This gives
Panduit an opportunity to introduce our high-quality, industry-leading network
products and solutions to the pro AV market.’

“SDVoE is the only off-the-shelf technology for pro AV that offers a “full stack
solution’ addressing the entire 7-layer OSI stack with solutions at every layer,’ said
Justin Kennington, president of the SDVoE Alliance. “Panduit provides vital
infrastructure that supports the Ethernet physical layer, the basis upon which all the
other layers are built. We welcome their valuable contribution and participation in
the alliance and look forward to working with them as we provide the solid, stable,
reliable and cost-effective AV-over-IP platform the pro AV market seeks.’

All AV distribution and processing applications that demand zero-latency,
uncompromised video can benefit from SDVoE technology, which provides an end-
to-end hardware and software platform for AV extension, switching, processing and
control through advanced chipset technology, common control APIs and
interoperability. SDVoE network architectures are based on off-the-shelf Ethernet
switches thus offering substantial cost savings and greater system flexibility and
scalability over traditional approaches such as point-to-point extension and circuit-
based AV matrix switching.

The SDVoE Alliance will feature member products and demonstrations at InfoComm
2017 (Orlando, June 14-16) in booth 3729. As part of the demonstration, Panduit
will showcase its Category 6A copper cabling system with MaTriX™ Technology. The
MaTriX system offers unsurpassed alien crosstalk suppression and thermal
properties, while delivering 10GBASE-T performance.