SipRadius launches SipMX Alliance at NAB 2026 with demos of its platform for media orchestration and multi-protocol interoperability, built on NMOS, RIST and IPMX open standards.
SipRadius, specialists in secure, low-latency media transport, is launching the SipMX Alliance at NAB Show 2026 to promote interoperability across the broadcast and pro-AV industry. SipMX is an effective, practical platform for media orchestration and multi-protocol interoperability, built on open standards including NMOS, RIST and IPMX. At NAB, SipRadius will give a comprehensive demonstration of the platform’s features and applications.
When using SipMX, broadcast and professional AV facilities running SMPTE ST2110, IPMX, NDI and Dante/AES67 can discover, route and manage all devices and systems from a single controller. This ability avoids the artificial boundaries between systems that may, in fact, use the same underlying IP infrastructure.
SipMX was initiated by Sergio Ammirata Ph.D., SipRadius chief scientist and creator of the librist library, the reference implementation of RIST, now widely used to add the RIST protocol to applications and serve as a RIST library for most platforms. It supports all features from the TR-06-1 standard, and most features of TR-06-2.
Shaping SipMX’s Specifications
The SipMX Alliance invites device manufacturers, software vendors, system integrators and cloud providers to work together to shape SipMX’s specifications and drive industry adoption. Membership to the Alliance is free of charge, aiming to encourage active participation from all players.
“The broadcast industry has always relied on standards, drawn up by respected bodies to ensure interoperability and quality,” Sergio said. “When we were dealing with purpose-built, heavyweight hardware, a long, thorough and detailed approach to standardisation was appropriate.
“But we are in a different world now, one where software powers everything, and agility is essential. 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.”
A Common NMOS-managed Workflow
According to Sergio, 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 operate with this level of interoperability, it has been out of reach for other users. “SipMX democratizes that capability, giving any user the same NMOS-managed workflow as a tier one broadcaster,” he said.
It manages 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,” Sergio said. “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.”
In the belief that making these specifications practical and useful for the whole industry is critical, SipRadius encourages interested parties to join the SipMX Alliance to share expertise, further shape the specifications and support adoption. 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. sipradius.com
