PORTLAND, OR — Audinate named Gary Southwell, a 20-year veteran in technology product management, as its vice president of product management. Prior to Audinate, Southwell served as CTO at BTI Systems and, prior to BTI, as GM of IPTV at Juniper Networks. Southwell also held management roles at Nortel Networks and Ciena.
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Audinate is revolutionizing the way that AV systems are connected, by transporting high-quality media over standard IT networks. Audinate and its award winning, Dante digital media networking solution, has rapidly become the premier networking technology for AV equipment manufacturers. Southwell, one of the early pioneers in deploying routing technology, promises to reinforce Audinate’s core competencies as network experts.
Prior to joining Audinate, Southwell served as CTO at BTI Systems, where he focused on enabling new services and deployment for large-scale packet optical network and strategic planning of next generation video delivery systems. Prior to BTI, Southwell worked at Juniper Networks as GM of IPTV where he was instrumental in expanding Juniper’s products into new markets. Gary has had various management roles at Nortel Networks, and Ciena.
“I am excited to join Audinate and I have been very impressed with strong momentum and adoption of Dante to date” said Southwell. “What’s even more exciting is the enormous potential Dante can bring to enable new A/V networked applications.”
“Audinate is a networking company, and we have captured a market leadership position, due to the vast expertise we have assembled in our company,” said Lee Ellison, Audinate CEO. “We see Gary significantly contributing to our knowledge base, and expect this will help us to develop better products and solutions for our current and future customers.”
Audinate’s Dante solution is media networking perfected. Dante provides high performance digital media networking has become the solution of choice among OEMs and AV designers, because it delivers tightly synchronized, sample-accurate playback, while simplifying installation and configuration of AV networks. Based on IP standards, Dante meets the quality and performance requirements of professional live sound, AV commercial installations and broadcast plus recording systems. Dante has been licensed by over 70 OEM customers across the AV industry.
