Leading digital audio processor wins CI BEST Award and SCN Installation Product Award during AV industry’s biggest event

BEAVERTON, Oregon — Biamp Systems, a leading provider of innovative, networked media systems, has announced that the company’s TesiraFORTÉ digital audio processor has been awarded a CI BEST Award for audio conferencing solutions and an SCN Installation Product Award for most innovative audio processing at InfoComm 2015 in Orlando, Florida. Part of the company’s flagship family of digital signal processor (DSP)-based products, TesiraFORTÉ extends Audio Video Bridging (AVB) to several application-specific settings.

“Our TesiraFORTÉ line of digital audio processors lets integrators leverage its flexibility while providing customers with the ability to seamlessly collaborate within today’s conferencing environments, including soft codecs and telephony,” said Justin O’Connor, audio products manager at Biamp Systems. “We are extremely pleased that this solution has been recognized with such distinguished awards, and look forward to unveiling more market-changing innovations.”

Biamp’s TesiraFORTÉ digital audio processors include four different models in AVB and non-AVB versions for specific applications with fixed I/O configurations. Equipped with best-in-class audio technologies — including Sona™ AEC, and SpeechSense™— the innovations provide clear, echo-free audio communication within any conference room, auditorium, or training space. Each TesiraFORTÉ solution is also equipped with 12 mic/line inputs, 8 mic/line outputs, 4-pin GPIO, and 128x128 channels of AVB. Models include TesiraFORTÉ AI, TesiraFORTÉ CI, TesiraFORTÉ TI, and TesiraFORTÉ VI.

Chosen by a panel of industry experts, integrators, and the editors of Commercial Integrator, the CI BEST Awards program highlights the most outstanding new products, solutions, and services that could impact the commercial integration industry in 2015. The SCN/InfoComm Installation Product Awards showcase the most innovative commercial AV products of 2015. A judging panel of integrators and consultants selected finalists before SCN readers vote online to determine category winners.