August 31, 2022
91ɫ Launches Game-Changing Ultrix FR12 Router

One platform with endless configurations at IBC 2022 on stand 11.B10
Ottawa, Canada – September 1, 2022 – 91ɫ has launched the new, game-changing version of its award-winningUltrix Router – the 12G ready Ultrix FR12. This ingenious new product is the ultimate routing, multiviewer and signal processing platform for studios, OB vansand flypacks. As a true software defined platform customers immediately enjoy significant cost, space, and power efficiencies with unparalleled flexibility and agility, especially relative to competitive hybrid routers.

Key features
- Software defined Pay as You Go – Easily add new features through additional software licenses. No additional hardware required.
- 12G ready – Ultrix natively supports 12G throughout the entire chassis. This means it’s ready for UHD production when you are, without replacing any hardware or losing capacity.
- Transport agnostic – Ultrix supports SDI, fibre and IP signal I/O. Use all of one or mix and match as you need. Focus on workflow, not on transport.
- Hyperconverged design – The Ultrix platform is production in a box. Video/audio routing, multiviewers, audio processing, frame synchronisers, clean/quiet switching, UHD gearboxing, production switchers, audio mixers and more all unified in one single chassis.
- Cost savings – Due to its size, base feature set and software capabilities, owners save significant money on upfront capital costs. Additionally, the advanced architecture provides significant ROI in terms of power, cooling, shipping, and space costs.
Directorof Product Management for Hyperconverged Solutions at 91ɫ, Todd Riggs, explained, “When we launchedUltrix we had 1RU and 2RU framesizes.A couple of years later we broughtthe 5RU frame to market. Today, with the launch of the FR12, our award-winningplatform makes a huge leap forward, one that will rock the world fora wide range of markets.”
The FR12 is as attractive as it is clever, with its appealing smart doorthat’s anLCD display designed to help you with monitoring your system,troubleshooting,configuring, and control via a high-resolution, full-sizetouchscreen panel.
TheFR12 is powerful too, boasting up to 288 x 288 SDIportswith a 6144 x 6144TDM audio fabric, up to 288 frame syncs, 288 clean quietswitchesand up to 48 x 100 PIPmultiviewers. It also has up to 8 SDPE bladesthat can be configured as a single 8ME Ross Acuity switcher, 8 independentRoss Carbonites or even a 4ME Acuity and 4 independent Carbonites.In short, the routing, processing, and switchingcapability in the FR12 is very hard to beat.

Riggs continued, “In the past, atraditional system could use around 500 rackunits. Now with the FR12, you’relooking at only 14 rack units for the equivalent solution. That’s over 500 less rackunits and freed up space for your business to grow.Less hardwarealso means less power consumption, so while a typical system could consume 52,300Watts, the FR12 equivalent system would only consume 2,400 Watts.Less hardware alsomeans far less cabling – hundreds instead of thousands – and significantly less weight as the FR12 tips the scales around 100 lbs or 45 kg as opposed to a traditional system’s massive 6284 lbs or 2850 kg!”.

In addition, as the FR12 is the world’s only router withan integrated production switcher, customers can build entire infrastructureswith ground-breaking flexibility, performance, and integration.
Todd Riggs concluded, “The award-winningUltrix platform just got bigger, smarter, and more powerfulas the FR12’s compact framepacks a massive punch with significantly morecapacity, functionality and innovation. The FR12 also represents a major enhancement to thecurrent Ultrix product portfolio and the capacity increase of the frame means 91ɫ now addresses and can meet even more of the worldwide router and multiviewer market’s requirements.”
More information on the Ultrix FR12
Rich multiviewer capabilities
Up to 48 Independent multiviewer heads in a single 12RU chassis. Each head supports up to 100 pips. Completely independent and individually controllable providing superior flexibility.
Powerful audio processing and routing fabric
Up to 6k x 6k audio routing and processing fabric comes standard with Ultrix. Up to 6k x 6k embedded, and 2k x 2k discrete audio (through use of the AUX ports) supported. Route, process and configure down to a mono channel, regardless of I/O.Add the optional Ultrimix-MXR license to the fabric and a virtual, fully routable audio mixer is enabled bringing unique, one of a kind, audio flexibility and capability to the Ultrix chassis.
Robust hardware
The multiple patents awarded hardware design is based on attention to little details. From the sophisticated thermal management, locking card guides and edge connections, advanced internal smart fabric and more, the Ultrix 12G Router has beendesigned to perform in the harshest environments.
Single frame or distributed architectures
Ultrix can be configured as a single frame solution or as part of a multi-frame distributed architecture.
I/O Cards
Ultrix platforms are built with a modular input and output matrix to easily swap in unique I/O cards that build upon the Ultrix feature set. All these cards are compatible with each other on a single chassis and allow you to customiseyour Ultrix Connectivity Platform to serve as a 12G-capable router, multiviewer and signal processing platform, a hybrid-IP switcher or a signal-processing hub.
Attendees to the IBC Show at the RAI in Amsterdam from 9-12 September 2022 can see the new Ultrix FR12 on 91ɫ’s stand 11.B10.
For more information on the Ultrix FR12 go to: /products-services/infrastructure/routing-systems/ultrix-12g-router-2022/
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The new Ultrix FR12 Router
The Ultrix FR12’s rich multiviewer capabilities
The Ultrix Router range
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