BRAM Technologies Catalog 2014-2015

Hardware
Azimuth
multi-channel
videoservers
The most powerful multi-channel Azimuth video
servers for audio-video materials ingest, store and
playback can be used in stationary control rooms or
OB vans.
Application
Features
Azimuth series of video servers use Matrox DSX OEM
video cards for audio/video ingest and playback.
Technical characteristics of these cards meet all the
international video standards. The world’s leading
manufacturers that use DSX cards in their products
confirm its reliability.
Azimuth video servers have a full range of analog
and digital video inputs/outputs - composite,
component, SDI, HD-SDI/3G. Video and audio are
hardware synchronized. Azimuth supports a wide
variety of codecs that allows working natively in
most of non-linear editing systems.
Each output channel of the video server has a
graphic buffer for titles and graphics overlay.
Scalability
Azimuth video servers allow simultaneous multichannel
ingesting and playback. Channels quantity
of any basic video server can be increased. Single
video server can record and playback up to 16 video
channels. Most of the applications support the use
of multiple video servers, which makes the extension
capabilities of channels quantity almost limitless.
Video servers can be connected by Ethernet or SAN.
Control
Having a wide ranhe of interfaces for managing and
interacting with other equipment RS-232 , RS-422,
GPI, Gigabit/10G Ethernet, IOG, USB, SAS, Fibre
Channel (optional) allows the Azimuth video servers
to be integrated into virtually any hardware complex.
At the moment, the following systems work with video
servers of Azimuth series:
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AutoPlay - complex broadcast automation and
media asset management
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NewsHouse – news preparation and playout
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VideoArchive - integrated media content
accounting and management
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TimeRunner SE - organization of video slow motion
replay
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SerialCam - multi-camera ingesting for TV shows
and programs
Disk Subsystem
DriveBox series of external disk arrays, optimized to
work with audio and video data, are connected to
the video server using SAS or FC.
Reliability
The power to video server is supplied by 2 hot-swap
PSUs. Two mirrored system drives and hardware
RAID controller store operating system and data.
Ventilation system consists of 8 fans that ensure
optimal heat transfer. Robust metal housing protects
the delicate electronics.
Quality control of nput components and weeks of
load testing of the ready product provide reliable
operation of video servers within TV station.
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