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Who should join? End device manufacturers, network infrastructure providers, component and silicon vendors, and software companies are invited to join Avnu to tap into the community investment and collaborative opportunities available within Avnu, setting the stage for a new chapter of industry-wide advancement and evolution. 

Avnu has created a framework that allows member companies to collaborate and interface on neutral ground with other protocols, companies, and organizations leveraging the TSN ecosystem.

  • Avnu facilitates product certification and testing to ensure interoperability and promote open standards for deterministic networking, such as TSN.
  • Avnu is made up of global member companies across diverse industries and has over a dozen years of experience developing the conformance specifications, test plans, tools, and Certification programs, necessary to build a converged network foundation, based on open standards, that can handle multiple applications, mixed-criticality traffic types, and various protocols all at once.
  • All members gain access to final test plans, open-source code, plugfests, test tools, and Certification programs to speed innovation and design iteration.
  • Avnu Alliance members also benefit from having their products and companies showcased at industry trade shows and conferences, in case studies, as part of Avnu press coverage, on social media, and more.

Avnu is a community for sharing knowledge and collaboration enabling all industries and value chain suppliers to benefit from the learning that has taken place across all markets. 

Let’s go build converged networking ecosystems together. Join the Avnu Alliance today.

Membership Levels 

Promoter membership is the premier membership level of Avnu Alliance. Promoter members get a voice and a vote to contribute to and influence specifications, Certification programs, test plans and tools. Promoters benefit from face-to-face plenary meetings and regular workgroup meetings, specific market and technical subgroup participation, with the ability to drive important technical updates to meet market requirements and assure certified products will be interoperable with those of other vendors. Promoters also get early access to pre-release specifications, test plans, tools, documentation, and related information.
 
Other memberships include Adopter, Milan Associate, and Academic Organization/Research Institute. 
 

All members get:

  • Access to final specifications and market requirements documents
  • Access to Avnu test tools for in-house product testing at a reduced price
  • Participate in general and annual member meetings
  • Access to members-only collaboration portal
  • Get listed on the Avnu Alliance website
  • Participate in pre-cert plugfests
  • Present & demo at trade shows and conferences
  • Avnu promotes your Avnu-related news and Avnu and Milan-certified products
 
Promoter Member – $12,000 per year

This membership is best for companies that want to influence and guide the development and final versions of market requirements documents, specifications, test plans, Certification programs, marketing and more.

  • Membership with full voting rights
  • Submit products for certification registration 
  • Benefit from shared knowledge and collaboration between all industries and value chain suppliers by joining any Avnu Segment or Working Group and participate in specification, test plan, and Certification program development
  • Early access to pre-release specifications, test plans, tools, documentation, and related information 
  • Contribute towards draft deliverables through participation in working groups and task groups 
  • Propose initiation of new task groups and projects
  • Access to participate in plugfests
  • Chair committees, working groups and subgroups and serve on Avnu board
  • Submit products for certification registration 
  • Use the Avnu Alliance name and/or logo in connection with participation status
  • Attend Face-to-Face meetings

 

Adopter Member – $6,500 per year

This membership is best for companies that want to leverage what has been created such as final specifications and test plans to develop products for certification. These companies don’t want a voice or a vote in the decision-process and they don’t have a desire to collaborate. 

  • Submit products for certification registration
  • Use the Avnu Alliance name and/or logo in connection with participation status

 

Academic Organization/Research Institute Member – $2,000 per year

Open to academic organizations and research institutes who are looking to contribute to the development of the Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) ecosystem.  

  • Benefit from shared knowledge and collaboration between all industries and value chain suppliers by joining any Avnu Segment or Working Group and participate in specification, test plan, and Certification program development
  • Early access to pre-release specifications, test plans, tools, documentation, and related information 
  • Contribute towards draft deliverables through participation in working groups and task groups 
  • Propose initiation of new task groups and projects
  • Access to participate in plugfests (NOTE: Does not include the ability to certify products)
  • Chair committees, working groups and subgroups
  • Limited to five member portal accounts per company
  • Use the Avnu Alliance name and/or logo in connection with participation status
  • Attend Face-to-Face meetings

 

Milan Associate Member – $1,000 per year

Open to members of the Pro AV market who only wish to certify Milan end devices.

  • No voting rights, no working group participation
  • Access limited to Milan specifications
  • Certification for Milan end devices only
  • Use of Milan logos only (not Avnu logo)
  • Participate in Milan plugfests only
  • Limited to two member portal accounts per company
  • Participate in general and annual member meetings 
  • Access to Avnu test tools for in-house product testing at a reduced price
  • Get listed on the Milan website and present & demo at trade shows and conferences

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Certification

The Avnu Alliance certification program is open to member companies, allowing them to give customers the confidence that their certified systems have passed rigorous compliance and interoperability testing, reducing tech support costs.

Don’t wait until after you’ve already integrated TSN into your product, join the movement now to have your unique development requirements met. Avnu Alliance members are given a rich set of tools to help build TSN devices including access to specifications, test devices, and conformance tools that help refine and accelerate product development before entering the formal testing and certification program.

Questions about certification? Click here to view FAQs about the new Avnu Advanced Certification Program.