Manifold technologies, a German company known for its cloud infrastructure for live broadcast production, has returned to Europe after a NAB 2026 appearance in which it introduced AT300 multiviewer support for its client base.
The company at the recently concluded Las Vegas conference and expo expanded its feature set alongside the previously announced support for 400GbE COTS FPGA accelerator cards.
In addition to the introduction of software which now makes manifold’s Multiviewer capabilities available directly on arkona’s AT300 blades, new enhancements include high quality 3D-LUT based HDR<->SDR color conversion.
Manifold’s flagship offering, manifold CLOUD, is a software-defined platform that delivers broadcast-grade processing (via multiviewers, Up/Down/Cross conversion and graphics insertion) on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) FPGA accelerator cards. “By decoupling processing from proprietary hardware, manifold gives users the freedom to choose the acceleration that suits their workflow, supporting cards from BittWare, ProDesign’s FALCON series, and other leading vendors,” Manifold says.
The platform also works alongside arkona’s BLADE//runner infrastructure, which provides deterministic signal gatewaying, vision mixing, frame synchronization, and advanced audio processing.
Other new capabilities that saw their NAB Show debut include 3D-LUT based color conversion, now available within manifold’s processing pipeline. This enables precise color management across productions, allowing operators to apply complex color transforms, whether for creative grading or camera matching with the deterministic performance that FPGA acceleration provides.
These new capabilities occur in conjunction manifold’s recently announced support for 400GbE COTS FPGA accelerator cards that will be also on display at NAB 2026. The 400GbE support delivers up to 4.8 Tbps of media processing per rack unit.
