–– television componentes and radio y subcontratación broadcasting 31 TELEVISION AND RADIO REFERENCE LIST OF MAJOR INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING CONTRACTS From the generation of radio and Through the process of digital TV signal to its reception and developing of DTT, the Spanish transmission – Spain has achieved industry has placed itself as a world — Commentator’s equipment used in various Olympic Games competitive advantages across all leader in this activity, exporting more as well as Angolan and Russian national radio facilities parts of this industry. than 50% of its production. — Providers of analogue and digital broadcasting systems Specifically, the Spanish The majority of the 120 countries in Colombia, Peru and Uruguay equipment, radio and digital TV from Asia, South America and Europe systems manufacturing industry is that have adopted the DVB standard — Graphic design for the virtualized presidential elections leader in the global market. utilize Spanish equipment. on NBC and BBC, software for virtual stage set product on RTL, Al Jazeera and Fuji TV. Cinema preview technique With its technical competency In fact, broadcasting equipment and experience, Spain offers a variety for DTT mobile networks in Shanghai — Implementation of TV and FM radio transmission stations for the of products and services, as well as was made in Spain. In addition, Africa Cup of Nations consulting activities to companies the decoders used by important and organizations responsible for TV Channels have also been — Audio and video transmission equipment provided for the South Africa World Cup and the 2008 European Football Championship developing digital television in their manufactured in Spain, and Spanish countries. companies have implemented and — Provision, installation and setting up of the Indonesia Public Spain has been the first country developed digital TV in the United Television (TVRI) network to install Digital Terrestrial Television States, South America, Asia and (DTT) equipment and high definition Europe. — Echo cancelling gap fillers for the Azteca Television from Mexico In the digital radio field, the TV in the market with its own — Audio and video codification libraries and OEM solutions for APT technology. Spanish industry offers a great compression technologies The early decision of Spain variety of infrastructure products. to develop DTT has enabled the This industry has been setting — Development of a complete centralized signal generating system to serve diverse DTTV production lines for SONY industry to acquire technology and standards in important events as the experience to position itself as world Olympic Games, where Spanish Audio — Provision of encoders and decoders for CNN and multiplexors leader in this sector. Technology was implemented. for RTVC In the field of DTT, the Spanish industry builds equipment for any of — High quality encoders for the Scienzi Naturali di Prato Center the existing standards, and its work — Encoder for Alcatel-Lucent on the European DVB standard has further contributed to its positioning — Digital media and low power transmission equipment for NEC worldwide. — Mobile HD production units and transmission equipment for the Olympic Games in Beijing — Signal contribution and distribution systems for Radiotelevisión in Morocco — Digital television gap fillers for the Singapore television television and radio broadcasting 33 AEQ The Olympic jump to the podium of telecommunications Tel.: (+34) 91 686 13 00 [email protected] Since 1979, Aplicaciones Electrónicas Quasar (AEQ) has been a market www.aeq.es leader in development, production and commercialization of automation C/ Margarita Salas, 24 and production equipment and systems for audiovisual media that are 28918 Leganés innovative, secure and advanced products. Present in five continents, Madrid AEQ exports its products and solutions to almost 60 countries from Spain, Portugal, the United States and the United Kingdom. To demonstrate the power and competitive advantages of AEQ’s in radio-diffusion and telecommunications, one would refer to their highest profile client project, the Olympic Games. AEQ has been a successful provider to the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 to those in Beijing in 2008. However it was the Olympic Games in Nagano in 1998 which led to AEQ obtaining the exclusive rights for DCS-10 sportscaster equipment. With these exclusive rights, AEQ established facilities in a number of “ Thanks to AEQ, stadiums and a central control at the International Broadcasting Center )../6!4).'ß3/,54)/.3 (IBC). Further more, AEQ services innumerable sports events such many sports events as European championships, World Cups, the NBA and Pan American such as Olympic Games. electronic components and subcontracting Games have been AEQ’s technical leadership comes not only from always being in the television and radio broadcasting vanguard through R&D, but also from being able to improve and broadcasted outsourcing and consulting combine matured technologies with more recent discoveries. With their experience, AEQ has successfully completed the set up of the autonomic successfully” eTIC solutions Basque radio EITB as well as Angola’s and Russia’s national radios with Innovations: electronics and telecommunications remote locations, different studios, various audio mixers and central routers. • The multi-conference system Beyond AEQ’s continuous technological improvements, they have gained called Systel 6000 is one of the expertise in the unified digital treatment of content, quality maintenance recent products of AEQ. It is and the combined and decentralized control and configuration. One of best used in situations where its top products, BC-2000 D system, offers a single hardware platform immediacy is key. for a large number of devices across various applications. For example, on one platform the product offers a matrix of 1000 audio channels, • ARENA, the digital console a multiplexor for E1/T1 lines, an entire digital mixer and an audio for audio mix distributes the concentrator system wich enable the simultaneus management of up to audio, enables the connection 5000 independent channels. between emitter studios and a centralized control. In addition to this, AEQ aims to achieve high cost efficiencies as well as efficiencies in response to high volume requests while maintaining • The routing and communication quality and speed. AEQ has been awarded with the AENOR certification platform BC-2000 D, together due to its quality plan according to ISO-9001, and the UNE-166002 with TITAN, enable the certification for its R&D management system. This Spanish company simultaneous management continues to grow and expand while holding a strong philosophy and of up to 5000 channels of culture to be a company creating technologies not for today or tomorrow independents studios. but for years to come. • One of AEQ’s latest innovations is Phoenix, a family of audio codecs and IP for outdoors and fixed applications. 34 television and radio broadcasting 35 “ Antenas Moyano works non-stop in the development ANTENAS MOYANO GMV:A pioneer Una odiseaof flat enantennas el espacio ElAntenas cerebro Moyano informático is a young que dirigirá company la primerathat began fase its del activities nuevo proyecto in May de and innovation Tel.: (+34) 91 710 94 50 la2004, NASA but para its personnel llevar al hombre is formed a luna by engineers piensa y habla with more en español. than two Apoya- [email protected] of products www.antenasmoyano.com dadecades en una of decidida experience apuesta in the por antenna la innovación and passive y el desarrollo transmission tecnológico devices Avda. 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