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14 April 2009, Cleveland Ohio, USA
Fraunhofer IIS has integrated the Livewire™ standard for IP-Audio
connectivity into Fraunhofer ContentServer™, its professional digital
radio broadcasting encoder solutions. ContentServer now connects
directly with Axia IP-Audio networks and devices via a single Ethernet
connection, providing broadcasters with a convenient way to handle audio
distribution. Fraunhofer IIS and Axia are jointly demonstrating the
updated ContentServer with Livewire functionality at NAB Las Vegas,
booth N7620.
”Fraunhofer DRM ContentServer“ and ”Fraunhofer DAB/DMB ContentServer“
are professional broadcast servers for the digital radio standards
Digital Radio Mondiale DRM and Eureka 147 DAB Digital Radio. They
provide live audio encoding, data service management, and broadcast
multiplex generation. Thanks to the integration of Livewire,
ContentServer solutions now seamlessly integrate into IP-based audio
networks, eliminating discrete wired connections. This allows for direct
access to any available audio stream and, if required, dynamic switching
between streams. Even surround sound signals can easily be supported.
All this makes it very convenient for broadcasters to distribute audio
throughout the broadcast plant, right up to the final broadcast
encoding.
In addition to real-time audio encoding, Fraunhofer ContentServer
solutions provide broadcast automation features, security features and
very sophisticated data application handling including Journaline®,
Electronic Programme Guide, and Slideshow support. They support the
digital radio standards DAB (DAB, DAB+, DMB), and DRM (DRM for short
wave, medium wave, long wave; DRM+ for band I and FM band II) and are
available through a number of OEM partners worldwide.
“More and more studios recognize the great potential of internal IP
based audio routing. Now broadcasters and network operators can make the
broadcast encoders part of this network,” says Alexander Zink,
responsible for the ContentServer solutions line at Fraunhofer IIS. “And
even users without a general Livewire infrastructure benefit from the
available external converter boxes through reduced server complexity,
hardware size and rack cost.”
Fraunhofer IIS is part of a growing list of Axia partners (www.AxiaAudio.com/partners/)
offering hardware and software products that integrate with Axia IPAudio
networks. Axia networks are now in use in over 1,000 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 on Fraunhofer ContentServer solutions, please
visit
www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm.
Visitors to NAB2009 can see the complete line of Axia products, in
the Radio Hall at the Telos / Omnia / Axia display in Booth #N7620. For
more information, contact Clark Novak at Axia Audio, via email at
cnovak@AxiaAudio.com
or by phone at +1-216-241-7225.
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Axia, a Telos company, builds Ethernet-based professional
IP-Audio products for broadcast, sound-reinforcement and commercial
audio applications. Along with the popular Element modular console for
on-air, commercial production, audio workstations and personal studios,
Axia products include digital audio routers, 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,today with 585 staff
members, ranks first among the Fraunhofer Institutes concerning
headcount and revenues. As the inventor of mp3 and co-inventor of the
MPEG 4 AAC audio coding standard, Fraunhofer IIS has reached worldwide
recognition.It provides research services on contract basis and
technology licensing. The research topics are: 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.The budget of 72 million Euro is mainly financed
by projects from industry, the service sector and public authorities.
Less than 25 percent of the budget is subsidized by federal and state
funds.
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