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Telos Catalog March 2004.Indd T i m e l i n e 1984: Steve Church invents Telos 10, world ’s first DSP adaptive telephone hybrid, and first DSP based product for radio broadcasting 1985: Telos Systems founded 1986: Frank Foti designs Vigilante audio processor at WHTZ, New York 1988: NBC uses Telos hybrids to cover Seoul Olympic Games 1988: Cutting Edge founded; Vigilante FM audio processor introduced 1989: Telos ONE Hybrid 1991: Cutting Edge Unity 2000 audio processor 1991: Telos develops multi-line DSP talk systems 1992: Cutting Edge merges with Telos Systems 1992: Telos develops Digital Dynamic Equalization adaptive hybrid EQ 1993: Zephyr fuses MPEG Layer 3 and ISDN technologies 1994: Zephyr wins Radio World “Cool Stuff“ Award 1995: Zephyr NET takes home “BE’s Pick Hit“ Award 1996: Telos introduces MP3 for real-time webcasting 1996: Zephyr used by major broadcasters during Atlanta Olympic Games 1996: Zephyr Express wins BE Radio “Pick Hit“ Award 1997: Cutting Edge debuts Omnia.fm Digital Audio Processor 1998: Omnia.am and Omnia.net 1999: Omnia-3 introduced for FM, AM and Internet processing 1999: Telos Series 2101 and TWOx12 pioneer use of ISDN for talk shows 1999: Omnia ToolVox digital microphone processor 2000: Omnia-6fm premieres; world’s first 96 kHz/24-bit broadcast audio processor 2001: SmartSurface networkable control system shown at NAB 2001: Zephyr Xstream introduces low-delay MPEG AAC-LD coding 2002: Omnia-4.5 audio processor for FM and AM introduced 2002: ProFiler automated program archiving 2002: Omnia.sg wins Radio World Reader’s Choice Award 2002: Zephyr Xport becomes first codec to use advanced aacPlus audio coding 2003: Livewire Audio-Over-Ethernet technology unveiled 2003: Omnia-6EX debuts with simultaneous FM,HD Radio,DAB processing 2003: Omnia/Crown develop Processing Card for Crown Transmitters 2004: Omnia-5EX,world’s first HD Radio processing for AM, debuts 2004: AXIA division of Telos is launched. 2004: First Livewire-connected studios built Radio World BE Radio Magazine Radio World Reader’s Cool Stuff Award Pick Hit Choice Award 2 Dear Reader, These are good times for Telos and Omnia. We get great satisfaction knowing that broadcasters in over 175 countries are using our gear everyday. We’ve just celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Telos Zephyr family of codecs. With over 10,000 Zephyrs in use around the world, it is the most successful digital broadcast product ever. More than half of the USA’s top 100 FM radio stations process with Omnia – as well as hundreds of major broadcasters such as the BBC, the NRJ Network, RTL Radio and the Korean Broadcasting System. Our work has always involved audio and networks. Taking this to a higher level, we’ve just opened a new division and product family called Axia. These products bring the benefits of networking to the modern computer-centric radio studio. Our goal from the very beginning has been to find new and better ways to do things. As should be clear after you browse this catalog, we’re not in the “me-too” business. Even after 20 years, we’re happiest when we are pioneering. And each day we give thanks that you have placed your trust in us. We promise to keep earning it. —Steve Church, Founder and CEO (on behalf of the amazing Telos/Omnia/Axia team who develop, build, sell, and support all the kool stuff!) 3 Axia: The Name Is As New As The Possibilities Meet Axia, a new Telos company, focused audio signals over a CAT-5e wire from one on helping you build studio facilities to room to another. Insert some fiber in between, meet today’s most demanding broadcasting and go across campus. Attach a few more applications. Axia specializes in audio routing nodes and an Ethernet switch and you have a switchers, digital mixing/processing engines distributed multi-room routing switcher. Plug and control surfaces, as well as a wide range in a control surface and a mix engine and you of other devices used to distribute, mix, and have a powerful networked broadcast console. process audio within the broadcast plant - Now, plug your delivery system PC into that with a unique advantage: Every piece of Axia same Ethernet switch and you can transfer gear is fully networked, including the audio! files, live audio, and associated data - all over that same net. Axia offers a variety of Ethernet networked audio devices - think of these as “building Axia simplifies, saves you money, gives blocks” - that allow you to assemble different you choices, and prepares you for today’s applications for your radio studios. For computer and data-centric studios because it example, a couple of Livewire interface node, takes advantage of the latest developments connected together, can move a group of from the world of computer networking. 4 Axia products deliver 24/7 operation in the most intense broadcast environments. But just because our devices are industrial-strength doesn’t mean we compromised on the details that make using our products a pleasure for engineers and operators alike. Have a look Did you say networked audio? at the front panel on an audio adapter node and you’ll notice a “All Axia products are based on devices, why shouldn’t broadcasters clever dual-duty display. Engineering can use it for quick diagnostic and Livewire, a pioneering technology benefit as well? configuration queries. The rest invented at Telos to convey low- of the time, the display provides delay and high-reliability audio over “As one example, Axia simplifies confidence metering of each input switched Ethernet. studio infrastructure by eliminating and output. sound cards. Windows PCs use Or just wait until you see the “With Livewire, a single a software driver that emulates features we built into PathfinderPC, Ethernet cable carries real-time a sound card, enabling delivery our router control and management uncompressed digital audio, systems and editors to pass software application. You can easily device control messages, program audio directly to and from the cross-connect an entire facility while organizing signals into intelligent associated data, and even routine network using their usual Ethernet groupings for ease of use. Routings network traffic. An entire facility can connection. and configurations can be changed be wired in hours, instead of weeks. manually, automatically on a Expanding or modifying your system “If you find it hard to imagine schedule or when triggered by some is simple thanks to Axia’s inherent computer networks replacing the external message, such as a contact closure. PathfinderPC can even scalability and modularity. entire audio wiring infrastructure of manage redundant audio paths and the radio plant, consider this: Not monitor network traffic to determine “The computer, phone, and so long ago, broadcasters could if there is any sort of fault and home entertainment industries hardly imagine PCs replacing cart automatically patch around it! expect data, audio, video, and machines. Now it’s difficult to find a You’ll really need to look twice telephone to share a common station still using carts. Networked when you see the back of the network infrastructure. ‘Converged audio is now not only possible; it Mixing StudioEngine. This powerful networks’ is what they call this. is practical, inexpensive, reliable, engine provides all the DSP mixing, Modern Ethernet has been designed flexible and scalable. The networked sweetening, and processing required to support the SmartSurface to enable these multimedia studio has arrived.” console. But why look twice? applications. With computers so Because all the connections into prominent in radio studios today as —Michael “Catfish” Dosch and out of the StudioEngine are via audio players, editors, and storage a single 1000Base-T Ethernet port. The audio signals are distributed via network to locations more convenient to the audio sources and destinations. One capable console. One Ethernet connection. Sneaks up on you, doesn’t it? 5 The Networked Studio: Anywhere You Need It Axia is infinitely scalable. Connect two studios – or a hundred! Every broadcaster needs to nodes where you need them. access to frequently-used move signals from one room With old-style routers, you sources. The router selector to another. Sometimes it’s either run thick cables to a has AES3 and analog I/O as a simple line selector that central mainframe or pay for well as a headphone jack. grabs signals from news extra hardware to extend out or production to go to air. the audio connectors. With The Axia Network Audio Sometimes it’s distributing an Axia distributed routing Driver for Windows® interface a program feed that can system, you put the nodes connects PC audio directly to be picked up and used wherever you need them to the network without sound by multiple destinations. be, keeping audio cables cards, via Ethernet. It also And in some facilities, you short and consolidating all provides GPIO-like start/stop need a full-up crosspoint digital traffic on convenient and other control functions routing switcher that allows and inexpensive standard over the same network. any source to feed any network cabling. Because it’s It’s available with newer destination. Because all Axia Ethernet and IP-based, you versions of high-end audio devices are networked, every can monitor audio with any delivery and editing software system made from them has networked PC - and with no applications such as those inherent routing capabilities. special hardware. from Enco Systems and Scott Those TDM routing switchers Studios. Ask your favorite others are trying to pass off Meet some of the devices delivery system software as “state of the art” could Axia audio nodes connect company if their software is easily cost $50,000 for audio to the studio network.
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