Appear ASA has announced the expansion of its X Platform at NAB Show 2026 (Las Vegas, Booth W1531). This wikll introduce Appear XM, a new estate management solution, highlighting the general availability and early deployments of both the Appear X5, and the SIx300 SDI/IP gateway module, as the company has claimed in a statement.

“Our customers are scaling live production and contribution workflows across more sites, more formats and more IP infrastructure, but they cannot afford any additional operational complexity”, explains Stephan Würmlin Stadler, Chief Product Officer, Appear. “With X5 extending X Platform to compact edge deployments and Appear XM simplifying estate operations at scale, we’re expanding X Platform to meet the realities of modern broadcast networks, without compromising performance, resilience, or flexibility”.

Appear XM is a a self-hosted management tool designed to try to simplify day-to-day operations across growing X Platform estates. It features a centralised interface to offer operators and engineers a unified view of their deployment, looking forward to helping reduce configuration errors, avoid version mismatches, speed up troubleshooting and lower operational overhead.

Additionaly, Appear is also making X5 generally available. Extending broadcast-grade contribution to deployments such as venues, flypacks, OB trucks, regional sites and pop-up studios, X5 aims to give customers a simpler way to apply the same operational model across high-end and distributed workflows.

X5 includes AVC & HEVC encoding and decoding, enabling edge contribution and local monitoring workflows, and TS and SRT I/O, with support for TSoIP, ST 2022-7 protection, and ST 2022-1 FEC. Advanced audio processing options include Dolby D/D+ encode/decode, Dolby E decode, and a TCP API for SCTE-104 insertion.

Continuing the investment in X Platform, the company also highlights the new SIx300 SDI/IP gateway module, designed to support JPEG 2000 and JPEG XS on a single reconfigurable module.

The platform is engineered for operational resilience and integration into modern broadcast workflows; it includes comprehensive API that supports remote management and integration with third-party environments such as Prometheus metrics.

The SIx300 module supports up to 8 HD channels or 2 UHD streams with sub-frame latency in JPEG XS mode. It also features SMPTE ST 2110, ST 2022-7 and NMOS IS-04/05.