Netgear Academy unites 12 AV brands

Netgear has expanded its educational academy to now feature free training content from 12 AV and broadcast technology manufacturers. Through the update, the Netgear Academy aims to provide a more comprehensive and accessible source for AV-over-IP professional education.

Netgear Academy’s collaborative model is designed to solve the skills shortage, particularly in AV-over-IP networking, in Asia Pacific’s rapidly growing AV and broadcast markets. Rather than siloed, manufacturer-specific training, the platform has been designed to provide a unified learning environment where professionals build complementary knowledge across the full AV-IT stack. Courses from both Netgear and its ecosystem of industry partners cover networking fundamentals, AV-over-IP protocols, system configuration, troubleshooting and real-world deployment strategies.

The learning platform features a deliberately vendor-agnostic design. Partner course content sits alongside Netgear’s own curriculum, giving learners a holistic understanding of how different technologies, products and methodologies work together in real deployments, regardless of which brands are specified on a project.

The academy holds AVIXA accreditation, allowing learners to earn Renewal Units (RUs) toward their Certified Technology Specialist (CTS) and AV Networking Professional (ANP) certifications.

“Asia Pacific is one of the fastest-growing markets for AV-over-IP and the demand for skilled professionals is outpacing supply,” said Gus Marcondes, global training manager at Netgear Enterprise. “Netgear Academy was built on the belief that the AV industry thrives when knowledge is shared across the entire ecosystem. By offering free training on the full AV-over-IP ecosystem, including a growing roster of third-party manufacturers, we’re giving integrators, IT teams and broadcast engineers in APAC the end-to-end education they need to deploy and manage modern AV systems with confidence.”

NETGEAR Academy’s 3rd Party Manufacturer Training Program now brings together content from Allen & Heath, AVB Academy, Crestron, Dante by Audinate, Lightware, MuxLab, NDI, Powersoft, PTZOptics, Q-SYS, SDVoE Alliance and Sennheiser.

All training content is available for free and can be accessed on demand, anytime, no matter the location.