NOW! 12-13 - Telos

AXIA | CONSOLES | APPLICATION ARTICLE
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RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY
This rack of Telos iPort codecs provides 96 MP3 audio streams that RFE/RL
employees can audition from anywhere in the 6-story plant.
One of the 49 studio spaces equipped with Axia Element consoles, Telos broadcast phone gear.
A touch of the Show Proiles button can instantly reconigure the entire board.
The studios are further customized for their users through the
use of Show Proiles, a console “snapshot” capability that’s
built into Axia consoles. These console coniguration presets –
up to 99 of them - can be saved on each Element console allowing
source selections, channel assignments, audio EQ settings,
and even monitor source preferences to be stored in named
Proiles that talent can select in seconds. With so much going
on, this is essential for RFE/RL, whose operators regularly use
the feature to completely reconigure an entire console to a
Satellite feeds likewise travel around the facility via IP, with
uplinks and downlinks arriving at their destinations as low-
latency, routable Livewire real-time audio.
Studios are equipped with Axia Element 2.0 mixing consoles
of various sizes. Some are large production studios with
control of associated on-air rooms, with large, 28-position
consoles. Others are outitted as combination production/
broadcast booths, with smaller mixing boards. All make use
of editing stations from D.A.V.I.D. Systems, an Axia partner.
These systems connect directly to the Livewire network using
the Axia IP-Audio Driver for Windows; this eliminates a signii-
cant amount of discrete cabling, and bypasses the need for
hardware audio sound cards as well.
personalized layout at a moment’s notice. And of course, on-
console control of call-in systems, editors and codecs helps to
streamline operations even more.
In a facility of this size, reduction of discrete cabling results in
signiicant cost savings. More networked equipment integra-
tion is achieved through use of Telos Nx-series multi-line phone
systems and Zephyr Xstream ISDN codecs in-studio, which con-
nect to the Livewire network using a single CAT-5 cable.