The AVnu Alliance (AVB) has unveiled its certification mark for devices that have passed AVnu Alliance interoperability testing.

This certification process ‘helps assure that once a product is certified, it will interoperate with other AVnu-certified AVB devices’.

To facilitate certifying AVB devices for interoperability, the alliance will provide its membership – presently numbering more than 40 – with tools to test AVB devices and troubleshoot problems before undertaking formal testing. Software scripts are offered to these manufacturers to help accelerate development of AVB products in preparation of final interoperability testing. AVnu Alliance regularly hosts plugfests where products are tested in a collaborative multi-vendor environment.

‘AVnu-certified AVB devices offer manufacturers and their customers numerous practical advantages over legacy and proprietary solutions in streaming A/V content,’ says Lee Minich, marketing chair for AVnu Alliance. ‘Only AVB products bearing the AVnu certification mark give end-users the confidence that a device passed robust compliance and interoperability testing in a multi-vendor environment.’

Earlier this year, the AVnu Alliance named the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) as its official test house. Testing of AVB-enabled bridges is planned to begin in August 2012. For professional audio endpoint products, the testing process is planned to begin in Q1 of 2013.

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