AJA Video Systems announced the integration of its KONA IP25 PCIe I/O card with Colorfront Transkoder and On-Set Dailies software on Windows. This collaboration enables uncompressed SMPTE ST 2110 I/O, allowing post-production professionals to streamline dailies, transcoding, and streaming workflows over ST 2110 networks.
The integration bridges a critical gap for post-production facilities transitioning from SDI to IP-based infrastructures. By enabling uncompressed ST 2110 I/O for industry-standard mastering and dailies tools, AJA and Colorfront are removing the throughput bottlenecks associated with growing file sizes and UltraHD resolutions. This move signals a broader shift where post-production is no longer an isolated baseband island but a integrated node within a facility-wide IP ecosystem. For the market, this confirms that 25 GigE is becoming the baseline for uncompressed 4K workflows. Watch for similar ST 2110 integrations from rival I/O card makers like Blackmagic Design or Matrox to keep pace with high-end facility demands.
The KONA IP25 integration follows a period of significant expansion for AJA Video Systems. In April 2026, per TVBEurope, AJA entered an agreement to acquire Comprimato, a live video encoding and software provider. This acquisition brought the Twenty-One Encoder—an SMPTE ST 2110 appliance—and Live Transcoder software into AJA’s portfolio, signaling a strategic pivot toward software-defined IP video solutions alongside its traditional hardware offerings.
Simultaneously, the industry is seeing a transition from hybrid SDI/IP setups toward native ST 2110 installations. Per TVBEurope in January 2025, while SDI remains prominent, new greenfield projects in 2025 and 2026 are increasingly prioritizing IP for the flexibility of transporting uncompressed 4K and 8K signals over standard COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) networking hardware. This trend is particularly evident in Tier 1 live sports and premium cinema production where bandwidth requirements have exceeded the capacity of single-link 12G-SDI.
Colorfront has also been aggressive in technical updates to handle these data-heavy formats. In late 2025, Colorfront launched the 2025 versions of Transkoder and On-Set Dailies, which introduced AI-powered tools for text and audio dialogue detection and automated quality control for Dolby Vision metadata, per PostPerspective. By pairing these automated mastering tools with AJA’s IP hardware, the two companies are attempting to reduce the complexities of managing uncompressed media streams in distributed remote production environments.
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