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

OG-Hi5-12G

Card By: AJA Video Systems, Inc.

4K/UltraHD 12G-SDI to HDMI 2.0 Converters

12G Multi Channel Fiber Transport (Model: OG-4602)

Card By: MultiDyne

OG-4602 12G/6G/3G/HD-SDI Fiber Optic Transport for openGear® card frame platform w/ SNMP Management

D2Flex OG-5220 IP/ASI Multiplexing Gateway for openGear®

Card By: D2D Technologies

The D2Flex OG-5220 for openGear® is a broadcast quality full duplex IP/ASI multiplexing gateway that can send or receive multiple services over IP with any ASI or network source. Transmission of high quality video with low latency across the public internet is supported with the Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) protocol.

Broadcasters and video professionals can optionally insert emergency alerts (EAS) or add a dynamic PSIP electronic program guide (EPG) with local channel branding into a reliable MPEG transport stream. The D2Flex OG-5220 is an essential building block of any distributed transmission system where value, security and reliability are needed.

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.