Valens Announces Testing, Certification Services for Latest HDBaseT Spec

Israel-based Valens, a recognized testing facility for the HDBaseT Alliance, announced availability of testing and certification services for new products incorporating Spec 2.0 of the HDBaseT standard. Valens’ testing and certification services conform to the recently issued Compliance Test Specification for Spec 2.0 of the HDBaseT standard (CTS 2.0), it said Tuesday. The first Spec 2.0-compliant chipset was released to the market in June, and the first Spec 2.0 products are being introduced to the market now. Spec 2.0, released in August 2013, brings new functionalities to the original standard, including multistreaming, daisy-chaining, USB 2.0 support and fiber as a new transmission medium.