Simplifying AV-over-IP with AI and Cloud Management
NETGEAR is a global leader in intelligent networking solutions, founded in 1996 and headquartered in San Jose, California. In the professional AV market, NETGEAR delivers a market-leading portfolio of high-performance networking solutions, including switches, routers, access points, software, and AV over IP technologies, tailored to meet the diverse needs of organizations of all sizes.
Industry
Networking
Audio&Video
Challenge
AV-over-IP sits at the intersection of two disciplines that rarely overlap: networking professionals focused on switching, compute, and wireless infrastructure, and AV specialists focused on the user experience. System integrators are left to reconcile both worlds, assembling multivendor systems across meeting rooms, digital signage, education, stadiums, and emergency communication, fragmented landscapes where uptime, predictability, and service quality are hard to guarantee.
Approach
NETGEAR set out to make AV-over-IP installations faster, more reliable, more predictable, and more profitable for the integrators delivering them. The strategy is to centralize AV management in the cloud, adopt an as-a-service commercial model, and apply artificial intelligence to the repetitive manual tasks that do not scale as deployments grow. Incompatible devices are isolated, compatible devices are orchestrated through a single managed fabric, and all telemetry is consolidated into one cloud destination: Xyte.
Solution
NETGEAR's AV-over-IP switches now stream telemetry into Xyte's cloud platform, giving integrators and IT teams a unified environment to configure, monitor, and troubleshoot the full AV estate remotely. An AI layer correlates signals across devices to surface patterns invisible from any single node, such as multiple rooms losing AV service simultaneously due to a shared upstream component. The same AI capabilities extend into digital signal processing and audio optimization, elevating the experience in every connected room.
Results
- Centralized cloud management replaces localized, closet-based infrastructure
- AI correlates multi-device issues to identify root cause
- Repetitive manual troubleshooting automated at enterprise scale
- Faster, more reliable, and more predictable AV-over-IP deployments
- Enhanced audio quality and meeting experience across rooms
“All of this needs to be connected to a central system, and that somewhere is not a local closet. We all know the cloud is real, and Xyte is that cloud. With artificial intelligence on top, the repetitive manual work is taken out, and the more devices you load in, the more work it handles for you.”
