With the 2026 NAB Show set to begin at the Las Vegas Convention Center on April 19, BARIX is preparing to place a spotlight on its latest professional Instreamer and Exstreamer devices for Audio over IP transport across broadcast and media networks.
At this year’s NAB Show, BARIX will be focused on flexible parameters and configurations for its MultiCoder M400 and LX400 FLEXA codecs, as well as its Reflector Evo cloud transport platform.
For starters, BARIX has added both SRT and RIST support to its low-latency, multi-format MultiCoder M400, an IP encoder that can send audio streams to receive points in four separate formats.
The MultiCoder’s SRT and RIST enhancement follows the addition of an SRT transport option to LX400 codecs, Barix’s secure next-generation transport device built primarily for radio broadcasters. This allows a user to configure the LX400 as either an encoder or decoder for deployment over traditional studio-to-transmitter (STL) IP connections, across point-to-point SRT paths, or within a multi-point enterprise Reflector Evo cloud network.
“SRT and RIST offer similar benefits as open, interoperable and robust transport protocols for live, secure low-latency transport over the public internet and unmanaged networks,” said BARIX CEO Reto Brader. “The addition of support for these protocols is primarily about giving our customers the freedom of choice this next generation of Barix hardware devices.”
The MultiCoder M400 integrates four internal encoding engines capable of simultaneous operation, each supporting various low-latency RTP, BRTP, SRT and RIST protocols. BARIX’s multi-engine innovation allows the device to encode incoming audio from connected analog sources into OPUS, AAC+, PCM and 320KB mp3, and it can send multiple audio RTP/BRTP streams to receiving devices without delay while retaining exceptional quality. streaming on RTP, SRT or RIST.
Like the LX400, the MultiCoder M400 leverages a new Linux-based platform to provide security features including HTTPS for the setup of the device.
— Reporting by Brian Galante
