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11 August 2008, Cleveland Ohio, USA
The Radio Broadcast Facility of the South African Broadcasting Company (SABC) has just taken delivery of 15 Axia Element broadcast consoles and associated IP-Audio routing equipment.
SABC intends to use the equipment for high-profile remote broadcasts, according to Richard Fulton of Tru-Fi Electronics (www.trufi.co.za), Axia’s distributor in South Africa. “The Elements will be packaged into flight boxes and will be used for major outside broadcasting events where OB points will be established for all of the SABC's radio services,” says Fulton. “This setup will be used to cover events like sports – Soccer 2010, for instance – elections, breaking news stories, et cetera.”
“SABC purchased Axia because of the ease of interfacing to other products equipped with Livewire™,” Fulton says. “This decreases installation time and cabling to gear like Telos Zephyr Xstream and Zephyr iPort codecs, and the Telos Nx12 phone hybrids that are all part of this system.”
The Livewire standard, developed by Axia Audio, allows broadcasters to build audio networks of any size that transport real-time, "live" audio, plus program associated data (PAD) and machine remote control over a switched Ethernet network. The same network can also carry files transfers, messaging and other routine traffic. More than 20 manufacturers of broadcast hardware and software now provide products that work directly with Livewire IP-Audio networks.
The complete system includes 15 Element Consoles, 15 Axia Analog Line Nodes, 4 Axia AES/EBU Nodes, 15 Zephyr Xstreams, 8 Telos Nx-12 Talkshow Systems, and 4 Telos Zephyr iPort MPEG Gateways to interface to SABC's main broadcast facility. Dalet workstations using 15 Axia IP-Audio Drivers for Windows® will provide audio content and recording services. The complete system is tied together using Axia’s PathfinderPC routing control software.
More than 1,000 studios worldwide are now on-the-air with Axia IP-Audio system. Axia networks have a total system capacity of more than 10,000 audio streams, and can carry hundreds of digital stereo (or nearly a hundred surround) channels over a single CAT-6 cable, eliminating much of the cost normally associated with wiring labor and infrastructure.
For more information, please contact Clark Novak at Axia Audio by email at cnovak@AxiaAudio.com , or by phone at +1-216-241-7225.
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