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06 September 2007, Cleveland Ohio, USA
Germany’s well-known Fraunhofer-IIS research organization
is the latest broadcast technology provider to become an Axia Audio
partner.
According to Alexander Zink, Product Director of
Fraunhofer’s ContentServer systems, Fraunhofer plans on implementing the
Livewire standard for IP-Audio connectivity into their broadcast server
solutions, making it possible for broadcasters with Axia IP-Audio
networks to integrate with Fraunhofer ContentServer products using a
single, simple Ethernet connection.
“Broadcasters employing Fraunhofer broadcast solutions
will benefit greatly from the inclusion of Livewire technology,” says
Zink. “The tight integration of IP-based audio distribution into our
professional broadcast server solutions will provide broadcasters with a
convenient way of uniformly handling audio distribution in the studio
infrastructure — right up to final broadcast encoding.”
“Axia and our parent company, Telos, have enjoyed a long
and fruitful relationship with Fraunhofer, beginning with our
introduction of MP3 technology to the broadcasting community in the
early Nineties,” says Axia President Michael “Catfish” Dosch. “FhG’s
commitment to including the Livewire networking standard in their
broadcast products signals a new way for Axia clients to easily add
professional content delivery systems to their networks.”
According to Zink, “Fraunhofer ContentServer solutions
provide very sophisticated data application handling, automation
features, security features and real-time audio encoding. Since these
servers are typically located in a studio or a network provider’s
playout center, it stands to reason that integration with modern audio
distribution systems like Axia will be a major benefit to our mutual
clients. Our ContentServer broadcast solutions are in operation at many
well-known stations and network providers, such as Deutsche Welle, bce/RTL
Group, VT Communications, DeutschlandRadio, Antenne Bayern/ROCKANTENNE,
several public broadcast stations from the ARD group, most German
Digital Radio multiplex operators, and many more.” Fraunhofer’s
broadcast solutions include Fraunhofer ContentServers designed for
Digital Radio Mondiale, DAB, and digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB)
applications such as Mobile TV.
Fraunhofer IIS joins a growing list of Axia partners (www.axiaaudio.com/partners/)
offering hardware and software products that integrate with Axia
IP-Audio networks. Axia networks are now in use in over 500 broadcast
studios; Axia products include a family of microphone, analog line and
AES/EBU “audio nodes” and DSP mix engines, routing control and
administration software, and the popular Element™ modular studio
console. For more information, visit
www.AxiaAudio.com or contact Clark Novak at
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. About Fraunhofer IIS: Founded in 1985,
the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Erlangen, with
its 480 staff members, ranks first in employees and revenues among the
Fraunhofer Institutes. Fraunhofer IIS has achieved worldwide recognition
for the development of the audio coding method mp3. Fraunhofer IIS
provides research services on a contract basis and licenses technology
in the areas of audio and video source coding, multimedia realtime
systems, digital radio broadcasting and digital cinema systems,
integrated circuits and sensor systems, design automation, wireless,
wired and optical networks, localization and navigation, imaging systems
and nanofocus X-ray technology, high-speed cameras, medical sensor
solutions, and communications technology in transport and logistics. Its
budget of 58 million Euro is financed primarily by projects from
industry and public institutions, with less than 20 percent subsidized
by state and federal funds. For more information visit
www.iis.fraunhofer.de/broadcast .
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