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14 April, 2006, Cleveland Ohio, USA
Axia Audio, the networked-audio division of Telos, has announced the
sale of 13 rooms of IP-Audio networking equipment to Clear Channel Radio
for installation in its Asheville, North Carolina radio station cluster.
Element modular control surfaces, Axia Audio Nodes and
other IP-Audio equipment will be used throughout new networked on-air
studios for WWNC, WPEK, WKSF-FM, WQNS-FM and WQNQ-FM. Multiple
production and news facilities, editing rooms and a Technical Operations
Center are also being equipped by Axia.
“Who needs 256 cross points when you can just change IP
addresses?” asks Chris Karb, Chief Engineer of Clear Channel’s Asheville
cluster. “We’ll have almost no analog wiring in our new facilities;
audio will be present only at the edges of the system and shared via the
network. Instead of sound cards, our Prophet system will send audio
through the IP-Audio driver. I think the only analog wiring in the plant
will be for the phone system!”
Using the Axia IP-Audio system, broadcasters can build
audio networks of any size using switched Ethernet to connect a few
rooms — or an entire facility. Axia audio networks can carry hundreds of
digital stereo audio channels over standard CAT-6 cables or fiber links,
eliminating much of the cost and complexity normally associated with
wiring labor and infrastructure.
The Axia system includes a family of microphone, analog
line and AES/EBU “audio nodes” and DSP mix engines, the popular Element
Modular Control Surface and SmartSurface Studio Control Surface, and the
soundcard-eliminating Axia IP-Audio driver, which an be used to send
audio directly to the Axia network from computer editing applications
and playout automation systems (for a full listing of compatible
systems, visit
www.AxiaAudio.com/partners).
For more information, contact Clark Novak at Axia,
+1-216-241-7225, or e-mail cnovak@AxiaAudio.com .
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Axia, a Telos company, builds Ethernet-based professional
IP-Audio products for broadcast, production, sound-reinforcement and
commercial audio applications. Products include digital audio routers,
on-air control surfaces, DSP mixers and processors and software for
configuring, managing, and interfacing networked audio systems.
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