IPMX proven at scale: mobile control rooms hit 100% reliability across 20+ events

This deployment is the first documented large-scale field validation of IPMX as an open AV-over-IP standard in live event production, moving it from certification-stage promise to operational reality. With 48 products from 11 manufacturers certified at ISE 2026 per IBC, the ecosystem now has a multi-vendor foundation that directly addresses the interoperability gap EEC cited when rejecting both SDI and NDI approaches. Watch whether other event operators adopt IPMX for multi-agency, multi-venue deployments — or whether the standard remains concentrated in safety-critical use cases where cross-organization interoperability is non-negotiable.

IPMX reached a critical milestone in February 2026 when AIMS officially launched it as a fully developed, certifiable standard at ISE 2026 in Barcelona. Per IBC, 48 products from 11 manufacturers — including PlexusAV, Matrox, Cobalt, Panasonic, and Evertz — received the first formal IPMX certifications following a testing event at the EBU in Geneva. The certified product categories span encoders, decoders, gateways, and processing platforms, establishing a multi-vendor interoperability baseline that the standard had lacked since its introduction in 2020.

PlexusAV's own certification covered four products: the P-AVN-4 IPMX Transceiver, P-AVN-4E encoder, P-AVN-4D decoder, and P-AVN-3-HDBT Gateway Transceiver, per AVNetwork (February 2026). The company showcased its full IPMX ecosystem — including the Stream Conversion Gateway and Visual Array management platform used in EEC's deployment — at NAB 2026, according to TVBEurope. At NAB, PlexusAV also debuted the P-AVN-2E encoder and P-AVN-2D decoder for H.264/H.265 streaming, the same product family EEC purchased 29 units of in Q1 2026.

Per AVNetwork (April 2026), AIMS is planning a second IPMX certification event later in 2026, with expanded participation expected. The next phase will focus on HKEP and HDCP handling, Privacy Encryption Protocol (PEP) for multi-vendor content encryption, and HEVC/AVC compression profiles — capabilities directly relevant to the bandwidth-constrained, multi-format environments where EEC's deployment operates. IPMX also won the 2026 NAB Show Product of the Year Award in the IT Networking/Infrastructure and Security category, per rAVe PUBS (February 2026).

PlexusAV is also expanding beyond video distribution. Per AVNetwork (March 2026), the company has introduced IPMX-enabled speakers — in-ceiling, pendant, and surface-mount models — that use IPMX as the backbone for audio distribution alongside Dante and AES67. The company is also developing the P-AVN-6-S, a 25G uncompressed IPMX and SMPTE ST 2110 transceiver with native 12G-SDI I/O, targeting hybrid SDI/IP production environments. This broader product roadmap suggests PlexusAV is positioning IPMX not just as a video transport standard but as a full AV infrastructure layer.