Arkona technologies GmbH has announced a new OEM partnership with BFE Studio und Medien Systeme GmbH, a leading broadcast system integrator and manufacturer of control and management solutions. The partnership will allow arkona to offer arkona-branded control panels for its SDI-IP routing systems. These panels will be on display during IBC2026, where arkona and technology partner manifold will be sharing stand 8.A69.
The agreement follows increasing demand from end users for arkona-labelled control panels as the company’s EASY-IP concept has gained traction in the market. Since introducing EASY-IP – a solution that helps broadcasters make the transition from SDI to IP-based production facilities – arkona has attracted significant interest from broadcasters building larger SDI-IP routers, creating a need for comprehensive control solutions, both software- and hardware-based.
BFE, a member of the Broadcast Solutions Group with more than 50 years of experience in broadcast and media technology, manufactures its own KSC product line of control and management solutions. The company has offered these control panels for decades and maintains a substantial installed base across Europe, Asia, North Africa and the Middle East.
Arkona’s existing control interfaces – including NMOS and Ember+ – already allow system integrators and end users to work with control panels from various third-party suppliers. However, as larger router systems have been deployed, arkona has increasingly received requests from customers for end-to-end solutions carrying the arkona brand itself.
Since arkona has been controlling BFE-labelled panels directly from its own EasyIP BLADE//master control software for some time – with installations across some of the biggest live sports events of the last year – formalising a branded partnership with BFE as an OEM made good sense, as the compatibility, intuitive usability, robust build quality and technical reliability were already proven concepts. The long-standing trust built between the two companies will therefore be formalised through the delivery of arkona-branded control panels from 1 October.
Speaking of the collaboration, Wiggo Evensen, Sales and Partner Manager for arkona, said: “As a fellow German company that takes pride in maintaining full control of design and production within its home country, and which has decades of experience and expertise in what it does, BFE was an obvious partner choice. Being able to provide end-to-end management of the production space using fully arkona-branded equipment – with the guarantees of quality and performance that entails – is really important to us.”
Building on Evensen’s comment, Franz Fehberger, Senior Technical Sales Manager at BFE Studio und Medien Systeme GmbH, commented: “We are proud to have been selected as arkona’s OEM partner for this new expansion to its range. Its overall mission statement is to deliver robust, powerful, flexible and highly usable solutions to the market, and in choosing us it has displayed its faith that we share the same commitment to those values. The beauty of arkona’s FPGA-accelerated, software-configurable solutions is that they provide absolute workflow flexibility, where users can choose what suits them best. And with our panels at the heart of its own-label offering, arkona is providing yet more ways to deliver that flexibility.”
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