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Networks: Satellite,
Cable & IP Connections cont'd...
set up to deliver next generation
broadband infrastructure to areas
where commercial investment plans
are absent.
A feasibility study for this project
has already been carried out and the
deployment in Luxborough started
in January. Further installations in
Somerset are due to take place later
this year.
"This is a great initiative and we are
pleased that our proven, reliable and
cost-effective satellite solution is being
evaluated for potential nationwide
roll-out in the UK," said Patrick Biewer,
Managing Director of SES Broadband
Service.
Secretary of Culture, Media & Sport
Sajid Javid said, "We want everyone in
the UK to be able to enjoy the beneﬁts
of superfast broadband, that's why we
have begun work on reaching the last
5% of communities not covered by
existing plans."

composed of Artist 128 and Artist 32
mainframes with 56 ports conﬁgured
for control panels, 80 ports for
analogue four-wire, eight ports for
VoIP usage, and eight ports for a
party line system. The entire system
ensures AES3/EBU audio quality,
with level controls at each individual
crosspoint, nonblocking connections,
and redundant power supplies and
controllers.
The Artist units are complemented by
46 of Riedel's 2000 LCD Series control
panels, one CCP-1116 commentary
control panel, ten wired belt packs,
and various VoIP multiplexers. For
sporting events that originate in
Miramón, the commentator panel
supports two commentators working
in the same language, or multiple
scenarios in which two languages must
be accommodated.
Riedel's Director software facilitates
system conﬁguration, monitoring,
and control, and its intuitive interface
simpliﬁes complex conﬁgurations and
settings. While remote conﬁguration
functions enable control from Bilbao
on weekends when no technical
personnel are working at Miramón,
options such as partial conﬁguration
of the system add further value
by allowing users to call and save
conﬁguration ﬁles on just one part
of the system, without affecting the
communications being made in other
areas of the production centre.
"The ability to change the
conﬁguration of one studio production
while not affecting the conﬁguration
of another studio production is very
important," said Juan Olalde, Technical
Coordinator of the ETB production
centre in Miramón. "This ﬂexibility lets
us perform the multiple simultaneous
changes needed in the daily
preparation of a programme, and save
them in partial ﬁles that are organised
by the type of production, personnel
available, or operating model."

Riedel Artist
Networks
provider
Riedel
Communications has conﬁrmed that
Basque broadcaster Euskal Irrati
Telebista (ETB) has deployed a Riedel
Artist digital matrix intercom system
within its primary production centre
in Miramón (Donosti-San Sebastián).
Supplied and integrated by Madridbased Riedel reseller Crosspoint,
the Artist solution supports ﬂexible
intercom communications throughout
the Miramón facility according
to the different requirements of
various productions, as well as
VoIP communications with ETB
headquarters in Bilbao.
"We evaluated a variety of solutions
and integrators, and we found that
with Riedel's Artist system, Crosspoint
was positioned to offer us the greatest
beneﬁt and highest quality," said
Juan Carlos Loroño, Head of ETB's
production centres. "Since we put the
Artist system into operation, we've
been very pleased with
its capabilities and its
impact on our day-today work in Miramón."
The Artist solution
at ETB's Miramón
production
centre
provides a distributed,
decentralised, scalable
architecture
for
communications. The
160 x 160-port Riedel Juan Carlos Loroño, Head of ETB's production centres using
Riedel's Director software
intercom system is
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