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ROSS VIDEO<br />

A SHIFT IN STRATEGY<br />

That acquisition brought a whole<br />

different manufacturing and supply<br />

chain challenge to Ross Video’s<br />

traditional PCBA-based work as it<br />

began manufacturing servers specifically<br />

engineered for the broadcast<br />

market. “We buy commercially available,<br />

high-end motherboards, CPUs<br />

and disc drives, and assemble them<br />

to make a custom-built application<br />

specific server that is uniquely a Ross<br />

product. The XPression graphics<br />

acquisition was key to sparking a major<br />

spurt of growth in the company.”<br />

Soon afterwards, Ross bought<br />

another two companies that manufactured<br />

products related to its Infrastructure<br />

product line. “They weren’t so much<br />

competitors as complements to our<br />

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DECEMBER <strong>2018</strong>

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