openGear
The industry standard platform of choice
openGear is an open-architecture, modular frame system designed by Ross Video and supported by a diverse range of terminal equipment manufacturers. The platform offers the freedom to choose technology from a wide range of products to meet the needs of a broadcast, production, or distribution facility while maintaining a compatible openGear frame infrastructure.
DashBoard Control System
DashBoard is a free and open platform which provides control and monitoring to hundreds of products from more than 100 technology adopter partners within the openGear and DashBoard Connect ecosystem.
Why openGear?
The openGear industry standard platform is a lasting investment, that is backward-compatible and future proof for UHD/IP. It is backed by continuous development from an ecosystem of manufacturers ensuring best in class solutions at competitive prices.
Card Portfolio
openGear offers a wide range of modular infrastructure best in breed solutions, including distribution, conversion, branding, audio, data, fiber, timing and more all in one compact, economical frame.
The Ultimate openGear
Applications Guide
Feature Products
ARIA OG-AUD2-DANTE
Card By: Cobalt Digital
Cobalt® introduces the ARIA OG-AUD2-DANTE card in a openGear® form factor. The COBALT ARIA OG-AUD2-DANTE is a 2x channel unit with 12G SDI and DANTE/ AES/MADI which can simultaneously embed and de-embed audio between SDI, DANTE, AES and MADI with flexible routing and mixing. This card also includes a built-in frame sync. This openGear® card features two gigabit Ethernet ports, and a 32×32 Dante channel matrix mixer. The Cobalt ARIA OG-AUD2-DANTE — High-density, compact openGear® card-based solution, with multiple devices is able to be combined into a single frame for multi-channel operation, as well as offering the standard features of redundant hot-swappable power supplies and hot-swappable cards. Free DashBoard™ software for remote control and configuration.
8900 Series UHD / 12G DA
Card By: Ross Video Limited
Single and Dual Channel Video 12G DA (Distribution Amplifier)
Why openGear?
openGear® is the industry standard platform of choice for modular signal processing. As the world’s first modular infrastructure platform open to other manufacturers, openGear provides solutions derived from hundreds of individual cards from dozens of companies. This cooperative effort gives users best of breed product and budget options, all while ensuring common control and monitoring within the DashBoard ecosystem.
DashBoard Control System
DashBoard, available free of charge, provides one unified control system across openGear products from all manufacturers. This allows for easy setup, monitoring, alarms and management. With the included CustomPanel Panel Builder, it is easy to create custom workflows across multiple products to suit your exact needs.
