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UPSTAR Comunicacoes selects Nevion’s Flashlink for long-haul optical transport of SD and HD programming

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UPSTAR Comunicacoes selects Nevion’s Flashlink for long-haul optical transport of SD and HD programming

Sandefjord, Norway and Oxnard, California, April 15, 2011 – Portuguese UPSTAR Comunicacoes has selected Nevion, a leading video transport solutions provider for broadcasters, service providers and government entities worldwide, to provide advanced multiplexing, conversion and management equipment for its long-haul optical fiber transport.

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Nevion unveils VideoIPath video services management platform for IP and optical networks

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Nevion unveils VideoIPath video services management platform for IP and optical networks

Connection management, provisioning, analytics, protection, scheduling and network inventory among services managed from an easy-to-use web-based interface

Sandefjord, Norway and Oxnard, California, April 15, 2011: Nevion, formerly Network/VPG, a leading video transport provider for broadcasters, service providers and government entities worldwide, debuts VideoIPath, a comprehensive software-based video services management platform for IP and optical networks at NAB (booth SU7217). A significant product introduction for Nevion, VideoIPath brings maximum control, monitoring and management to users’ fingertips through an easy-to-use graphical interface.

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NAB Show Goes Live and On-Demand Online with Digital Rapids Transcode Manager and TouchStream

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Digital Rapids LogoApril 13, 2011 — NAB Show, Las Vegas, Booth SL6010: Digital Rapids – the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, movie and Web content to wider audiences — is providing the encoding capabilities powering live and on-demand video of the 2011 NAB Show on the official show website, www.nabshow.com. Expanding upon the on-demand content featured on the site during previous events, the NAB Show is for the first time featuring official daily webcasts, live from the show floor. The automated, high-performance Digital Rapids Transcode Manager software is being used in the production of on-demand content for the third consecutive year, while the TouchStream portable live streaming appliance is being used for encoding and streaming of the live webcasts. (more…)

AURALEX INTRODUCES FIRST ENTRY-LEVEL FABRIC WRAPPED STUDIOFOAM PANELS TO BROADCAST MARKET AT THE 2011 NAB SHOW

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Company Expands Customer Base with

SonoLite™ Professional Grade Studiofoam Panels

LAS VEGAS, APRIL 12, 2011 – Auralex® Acoustics, Inc., the industry leader in innovative sound control solutions, introduces its new SonoLite™ fabric wrapped Studiofoam®Pro panels at the 2011 NAB Show (Booth SL8810). With a price that specifically targets those on limited budgets, the latest entry-level SonoLite fabric wrapped StudiofoamPro panels now allow the company to expand its customer base by reaching the smaller and affiliate broadcast production facilities. auralex-sonolite.jpg

“Auralex is thrilled to offer this type of product at such an affordable price to both our loyal customers and to those who may be new to Auralex products,” says Eric Smith, founder and president of Auralex Acoustics. “Auralex’s SonoLite is an ideal acoustical absorption panel for any broadcaster on a budget as well as the independent journalist, at-home podcaster or (more…)

Digital Rapids Previews New Contribution Extensions for Award-Winning MediaMesh Content Delivery System

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Digital Rapids LogoApril 12, 2011 — NAB Show, Las Vegas, Booth SL6010: Digital Rapids — the leading provider of tools and solutions for bringing television, movie and Web content to wider audiences — is offering attendees of the 2011 NAB Show a preview of a powerful new extension to the award-winning MediaMesh business-to-business content delivery system. The new MediaMesh TX content contribution appliance provides flexible, easy-to-use content packaging and sending capabilities mirroring the robust features of the proven MediaMesh RX receiving appliance. (more…)

NAB News: Internap Speeds Delivery of Web and Mobile Content across its CDN with XIP Acceleration

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This morning, Internap, a global provider of CDN and cloud services to a wide range of broadcast and media and entertainment companies, including Digital Sports Video, Rhapsody and GamersGate, announced that its Accelerated IP (XIP™) service will be incorporated into its global Content Delivery Network (CDN) to accelerate content delivery all the way to the end user device and across a greater number of network layers than traditional CDNs, resulting in a notable and immediate performance improvement for customers (without having to deploy any additional hardware/software to achieve this speedy delivery). The integration will significantly improve the delivery of video streaming and web content to a wide range of user devices, including mobile phones, tablets and PCs, resulting in 400% faster streaming and downloads.

For more info, click here to see the press release. Also, Internap is showing a (more…)

Digital Rapids Unveils Quartet of New Products and Upgrades for Live Multi-Screen Encoding and Streaming

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Digital Rapids LogoApril 10, 2011 — NAB Show, Las Vegas, Booth SL6010: Digital Rapids has unveiled a wide array of new products and enhancements in the company’s comprehensive range of encoders for live multi-screen delivery. The new offerings include the launch of the StreamZ Live IP encoder for repurposing live IP-based inputs; significant performance increases in the StreamZHD Live ABR adaptive streaming encoder; new remote management capabilities for the TouchStream live streaming appliance; and a preview of a new hybrid encoder, extending Digital Rapids’ proven, multi-screen encoding benefits into ‘traditional’ television applications in the broadcast, cable, satellite and telco markets. (more…)

Axon showcases Cortex Monitoring & Control System

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In today’s multi-platform, multi-purpose broadcast world the need to repackage content demands that you master a broad diversity of workflows. Cortex, an imaginative software-based control platform developed by Axon, enables you to do this easily and cost-effectively.

What’s the big deal about AXON Cortex?The latest version of AXON’s Cortex software application makes the implementation of multiple video and audio signal paths easier, more efficient and cost-effective than ever. Cortex provides comprehensive tools to configure, monitor and maintain a diversity of devices including Axon’s Synapse range of control modules and other third-party products. Consequently, you take total control over multiple and complex routines involving numerous users. Ultimately, you can configure your workflow exactly how you wish, to meet your production needs.

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Axon’s Synapse addresses audio processing needs

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Axon SynView multiviewer2011 represents the 15th consecutive year that the Netherlands-based AV conversion, processing and compliance recording specialist, Axon Digital Design, will have taken part in NAB.

Amongst the key new Synapse products in Las Vegas will be the GRB100 – a 3Gb/s HD and SD 48×16 channel shuffler – re-embedder. With this new unit, the source audio channels used for embedding into the output SDI can be derived from two individual 3Gb/s HD or SD inputs and from the 32 channels that are available in the quad speed multiplexing audio ADD-ON bus.

A neat feature of this card sees the output embedding 16 channels and the source for this audio can be derived from both SDI input 1 (which normally also carries the video) or from SDI input 2. Input two can be connected to a second SDI source that (more…)

AXON grows global sales revenues by 25%, targets North American market for further growth

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Netherlands-based AV conversion, processing and compliance recording specialist Axon Digital Design (Booth N3024) arrives at NAB on the back of the announcement of major growth in its global sales revenue. In 2010, Axon registered over 25 per cent growth in its worldwide sales, growth that positions Axon as the leading supplier of signal processing equipment (digital glue) in HD & 3D OB vehicles (source: www.live-production.tv ).

Whilst historically the company has focussed primarily on the European market, Axon has indicated its intention to develop its presence in the key North American markets. Already, Axon has established sales and technical support facilities in the US market and its intention is to grow its market presence in the US this year.

“We come to this our 15th year at NAB in the best shape ever,” commented Jan Eveleens, CEO at Axon. “For many years we have invested heavily in research and (more…)