SipRadius, specialists in secure, low-latency media transport, will drive innovation and interoperability still further with the launch of the SipMX Alliance at NAB Show 2026 (booth W2316, Las Vegas Convention Centre, 19 – 22 April). SipMX is the powerful and practical platform for media orchestration and multi-protocol interoperability, built on open standards including NMOS, RIST and IPMX. NAB will see a comprehensive demonstration of the proven and deliverable technology.
With SipMX, for the first time facilities in broadcast and professional AV running SMPTE ST2110, IPMX, NDI and Dante/AES67 can be discovered, routed and managed from a single controller, simply and seamlessly. This eliminates the artificial boundaries between systems that may even use the same underlying IP infrastructure.
SipMX was initiated by Sergio Ammirata Ph.D., SipRadius chief scientist and creator of the widely used librist library, the reference implementation of RIST. With the SipMX Alliance, the invitation is extended to device manufacturers, software vendors, system integrators and cloud providers to work together to shape its specifications and drive industry adoption. Membership of the Alliance is free to encourage active participation from everyone.
“The broadcast industry has always relied on standards, drawn up by respected bodies to ensure interoperability and quality,” Ammirata said. “When we were dealing with purpose-built, heavyweight hardware, a long, thorough and detailed approach to standardization was appropriate.
“But we are in a different world now, one where software powers everything, and agility is essential,” he continued. “It also finally sees the true coming together of broadcast and Pro AV, eliminating the need for separate protocols, separate tools, separate ecosystems – underneath, it’s all IP. We have brought together all the appropriate standards and developed practical, working solutions on top of them which are ready to roll out today, and designed for collaborative extension with our partners.”
Practical content production and delivery demands the orchestration of diverse equipment into a single coherent system, requiring NMOS discovery, crosspoint routing, receiver monitoring, enterprise security and more. While large broadcast facilities, with ST2110 infrastructures and extensive engineer teams, can provide this level of interoperability, it has been far beyond other users. SipMX democratizes that capability, giving any user the same NMOS-managed workflow as a tier one broadcaster.
It provides discovery and routing across any network, including navigating firewalls, cellular connections and cloud and hybrid architectures. It bridges protocols, so users share streams natively even when using equipment from different manufacturers, different protocols and different eras. Most important, it imposes enterprise security end-to-end, including in the cloud, with a built-in certificate authority, EST server, zero-trust device onboarding and public key authentication.
“The goal of SipMX is to erase the boundaries.” according to Ammirata. “A church with NDI cameras, a corporate campus on Dante and a broadcast facility that has migrated to SMPTE ST2110 can all be managed by the same platform, with the same security, the same routing and the same federation across sites. It builds on today’s accepted standards, and as they develop in the future, SipMX will be the first to adopt them.
“It is critical that these specifications are practical and useful for the whole industry, today – the industry should not wait,” he said. “We encourage every interested party to join the SipMX Alliance to share expertise, further shape the specifications and support adoption, to truly democratize media.”
Full details of the specifications, more information on the aims of the project, and the invitation to join the SipMX Alliance can be found at sipmx.com.