IEC EN 62379-1 Common Control Interface for Networked Digital Audio and Video Products - Part 1: General

EUROLAB, with its state-of-the-art accredited laboratories and expert team, provides precise and fast testing services within the scope of IEC EN 62379-1 test. IEC EN 62379-1 specifies a control interface for products transmitting audio or video over digital networks. It provides a means for management units to control not only transmission over the network, but also other functions within the interface equipment.

Although originally developed for audio over asynchronous transmission mode (ATM) in radio broadcasting, the control framework has been expanded to include video and other time-critical environments, as well as other networking technologies and other applications in both professional and consumer environments.

The control framework provides a number of key features:

• Provides a consistent interface for functionality in an audiovisual unit;
• It enables the creation of truly “plug and play” systems by providing tools for equipment to discover which units are connected to the network and what their capabilities are;
• It connects separate areas or blocks of functionality in a coherent and structured way;
• It allows us to define small focused building blocks from which more complex functions can be built;
• It enables new functionality to be developed and integrated into the framework consistently and easily.

As an additional aid to the "plug and play" functionality, a common format for audio and video transported over the network is also specified, thus avoiding situations where two equipment cannot communicate because there is no format that is compatible with either. The equipment can, of course, also support other formats suitable for specific applications, and standard mechanisms for starting and ending communication will work in the same way as standard formats for those formats.

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