The SDVoE Alliance has announced that Black Box and IDK Corporation will join founders Christie, NETGEAR, Semtech and ZeeVee as steering members.

The six companies have seats on the board of directors along with Grandbeing, a contributing member and Justin Kennington, president of the SDVoE Alliance. Heading toward its fourth year, the alliance boasts 50 members, over 200 products and more than 1100 certified SDVoE design partners.

“We welcome Black Box and IDK to leadership positions in the SDVoE Alliance and look forward to the contributions they will make in their new roles as we continue to have a profound effect on the industry, driving the demise of dedicated matrix switchers and proprietary AV over IP,” SDVoE Alliance president Justin Kennington says.

“As one of the original members of the SDVoE Alliance, IDK Corporation has made a significant investment in product innovation, engineering, marketing and customer support for their SDVoE product line as a crucial part of their strategic roadmap,” Justin adds.

“They have many high-profile projects already installed in places like Yale University’s Sterling Law Building and the European Chemicals Agency’s new facility in Helsinki. We eagerly anticipate what they will do next.”

IDK Corporation executive director Ryohei Iwaskai says that its proud to elevate its status to steering member of the SDVoE Alliance: “We take our expanded responsibility to educate our customers and promote SDVoE solutions all over the world very seriously.”

A video of both new members discussing their promotion to steering member can be found here.