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10 November 2011, Cleveland Ohio, USA
Studer (www.studer.ch), one of pro
audio and broadcasting’s best-known brands, is the latest technology
company to adopt the Axia Livewire™ AoIP standard. Livewire is the
broadcast networking system which utilizes Ethernet to provide an easy
way to route and share audio and logic throughout the broadcast plant.
Under the Livewire Limitless License (L3) introduced this year, Studer
is licensed to build a Livewire interface into any or all of its
products, allowing instant one-cable connection to Axia networks and
products from more than 30 other Livewire hardware and software
partners.
“We decided to adopt the Livewire standard from Axia following
consultation with many customers on our new product strategy,” says Andy
Trott, HARMAN’s Vice President and General Manager Mixers, Microphones
and Headphones (Soundcraft, Studer and AKG). “Studer is embracing a very
‘open standards’ philosophy as we launch more and more broadcast systems
and this is the first of many new partnership initiatives that we will
be announcing over the next 18 months to provide our customers with
increasing flexibility.”
“Axia clients realize that the value of the network isn’t the network
itself — it’s the variety of devices the network can connect to,” says
Axia President Michael “Catfish” Dosch. “The addition of Studer products
to the already-impressive list of broadcast equipment that connects to
Livewire underscores just how strongly broadcasters value
standards-based networking.”
The Livewire Limitless License
entitles partners to build Livewire into an unlimited number of devices
for a one-time license fee of just $500. As an L3 partner, Axia will
supply Studer with Livewire interface designs, specifications, source
code and development information, and an option to purchase the Livewire
SIM, a compact pluggable 72-pin Single Inline Module which fits Dolby-E
type slots, making it easy to include native Livewire connectivity in
nearly any audio gear.
Over 30 Axia partners,
including companies such as Nautel, AudioScience, International
Datacasting, 25-Seven Systems, and RCS Sound Software already offer
broadcast hardware and software that connects directly with Livewire
networks. More than 2,000 radio studios are equipped with Axia AoIP
networks, and over 25,000 Livewire-equipped devices are in daily
service.
To find out more about the Livewire Limitless License and becoming an
Axia Partner, visit www.OpenAoIP.com,
or contact Clark Novak by e-mail at
cnovak@AxiaAudio.com
or by telephone at +1 216-241-7225.
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A print-ready version of the Livewire logo shown here can be downloaded
from
www.AxiaAudio.com/pix/
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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 Element 2.0. iQ and Radius AoIP consoles
for on-air, commercial production, audio workstations and personal
studios, Axia products include intercom systems, digital audio routers,
DSP mixers and processors, and software for configuring, managing and
interfacing networked audio systems.
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