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Fraunhofer IIS implements Livewire into ContentServer broadcast server line

Press Release 15.04.2009

Fraunhofer IIS has integrated the Livewire™ standard for IP-Audio connectivity into Fraunhofer ContentServer™, its professional digital radio broadcasting encoder solutions. ContentServer now connects directly with Axia IP-Audio networks and devices via a single Ethernet connection, providing broadcasters with a convenient way to handle audio distribution. Fraunhofer IIS and Axia are jointly demonstrating the updated Content- Server with Livewire functionality at NAB Las Vegas, booth N7620.

”Fraunhofer DRM ContentServer“ and ”Fraunhofer DAB/
DMB ContentServer“ are professional broadcast servers for
the digital radio standards Digital Radio Mondiale DRM and
Eureka 147 DAB Digital Radio. They provide live audio encoding,
data service management, and broadcast multiplex
generation. Thanks to the integration of Livewire, ContentServer
solutions now seamlessly integrate into IP-based
audio networks, eliminating discrete wired connections. This
allows for direct access to any available audio stream and, if
required, dynamic switching between streams. Even surround
sound signals can easily be supported. All this makes it very
convenient for broadcasters to distribute audio throughout
the broadcast plant, right up to the final broadcast encoding.

In addition to real-time audio encoding, Fraunhofer ContentServer
solutions provide broadcast automation features,
security features and very sophisticated data application
handling including Journaline ®, Electronic Programme Guide,
and Slideshow support. They support the digital radio standards

DAB (DAB, DAB+, DMB), and DRM (DRM for short
wave, medium wave, long wave; DRM+ for band I and FM
band II) and are available through a number of OEM partners
worldwide.

“More and more studios recognize the great potential of
internal IP based audio routing. Now broadcasters and
network operators can make the broadcast encoders part
of this network.” says Alexander Zink, responsible for the
ContentServer solutions line at Fraunhofer IIS.“And even us ers
without a general Livewire infrastructure benefit from the
available external converter boxes through reduced server
complexity, hardware size and rack cost.”

Fraunhofer IIS joins a growing list of Axia partners offering
hardware and software products that integrate with Axia IPAudio
networks. Axia networks are now in use in over 1.000
broadcast studios; Axia products include a family of microphone,
analog line and AES/EBU “audio nodes” and DSP mix
engines, routing control and administration software, and
the popular Element™ modular studio console.

For more information on Fraunhofer ContentServer solutions,
please visit:

http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/EN/bf/amm/products/drmcont

http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/EN/bf/amm/products/dab_dmb_content

For more information on Livewire and Axia, please visit
www.AxiaAudio.com.