NEP Group

News Summary:

On April 22, 2026, NEP Group integrated Bridge Technologies' VB440 production probe into its NEP Platform, delivering monitoring and visualization tools from a virtualized location, an announcement made at NAB 2026. The previous day, April 21, NEP VP Platform Dan Murphy explained at the NAB Show that the NEP Platform represents a shift from traditional hardware integration to a software-defined, IP- and COTS-based infrastructure, deploying production tools on demand across trucks, facilities, data centers, and the cloud. Also on April 21, NEP's Martin Stewart discussed the NEP Platform's role in hybrid production as a centralized, scalable environment that integrates software and hardware services, noting its capacity for scaling to events such as the FIFA World Cup, coinciding with NEP's 40th anniversary. This followed the April 18 demonstration at NAB Show 2026, where Panasonic and NEP Group showcased a certified integration between the NEP Platform and Panasonic’s KAIROS IT/IP live video production platform, designed to deliver unified IP production workflows and end-to-end signal management. Earlier, on April 17, Bridge Technologies partnered with NEP Group, enabling the VB440 probe's functionality to be deployable on a software basis through the NEP Platform, allowing customers to instantiate monitoring and visualization tools from a single virtualized location. The NEP Platform, a new software orchestration system, launched in March 2026.