The SDVoE Alliance® is a non-profit technology consortium for professional AV. The mission of the SDVoE Alliance is to promote and accelerate the pro AV industry’s transition to using Ethernet as the primary infrastructure for delivering audio and video signals and replace the venerable matrix switch with software-defined video over Ethernet (SDVoE™). Today the SDVoE Alliance boasts a membership of 41 companies and is continuously growing.

As traditional audio visual (AV) switching is gradually being phased out, Internet Protocol (IP) solutions like Semtech’s BlueRiver® line of professional AV (Pro AV) products are becoming the new norm. IP switching enables scalable solutions by allowing a variable number of inputs and outputs. By eliminating the costly and proprietary dedicated matrix switch, significant system cost savings are also available.