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Nautel
Strengthens
With Digidia
Acquisition
N

autel has announced that it
acquired ownership of France
based technology company Digidia.
The addition expands Nautel's existing
Digital Radio offerings to broadcast
customers.

The acquisition expands Nautel's
core product lines, enhancing the
company's extensive expertise in highpower electronics design and digital
signal processing. Digidia, founded
in 2005, has developed rare design
knowledge related to DAB+ and DRM.
In addition, the company has created
specialized solutions that address
synchronization of radio transmissions
for highway projects or to allow radio
reception within Europe's numerous
mountain tunnels. Digidia will continue
as a separate entity, serving its
customers out of its fully integrated
design and manufacturing facility in
Rennes, France. Former shareholders
Hermann Zensen, Manuel Billot
and Damien Bernard will remain as
executives for the two companies.
" We are absolutely excited to
welcome the talented Digidia team to
the Nautel family, " said Kevin Rodgers,
Nautel President and CEO. " Nautel
has long demonstrated its passion for
digital radio with its leadership in HD
Radio transmission solutions. With
the addition of the Digidia's design
capabilities, DAB+ and DRM solutions,
Nautel is underlining its commitment
to all major digital radio transmission
standards.  By adding Digidia's
offerings together with Nautel's
existing transmission products we will
be able to better serve an even larger
base of customers worldwide. "
" Nautel has achieved exceptional
customer acceptance for its line of
broadcast transmitters and innovative
digital radio, " said Hermann Zensen,
Sales Manager, on behalf of the Digidia
management team.  " We believe this is
a perfect partnership that makes more
resources and opportunities available
for our Digidia team and allows us to
better serve our customers. "

Leader Enhances ZEN Series
LV5600 Waveform Monitor
& LV7600 Rasterizer

L

eader Electronics has announced
an enhancement to the audio
measurement toolset provided in
its ZEN series LV5600 waveform
monitoring and LV7600 rasterizer
when fitted with the LV5600-SER03/
LV7600-SER03 hardware option. The
additional features form part of the
new ZEN Version 5.3 software which is
available as a free download for all ZEN
series products.
Established options which can be
integrated into each instrument,
the
LV5600-SER03/LV7600-SER03
modules includes a digital/analogue
audio input and output and also
features audio loudness monitoring
and reporting. The LV5600 and
LV7600 both come as standard with
support for BS1770, ARIB, EBU, ATSC
loudness measurements. Users can
also create and save their own audio
loudness monitoring profiles with
target level tolerance adjustable in
increments of 0.5 LU.
" EBU recommendation R128 has
been adopted by the Digital Production

Partnership as part of the AS11 file format for programme
delivery, " comments Kevin
Salvidge, Leader's European
Regional
Development
Manager. " The original DPP
Delivery requirements for
audio program loudness only
referenced Live (including
As-Live), which caused issues
for post production mastering and
delivery. These resulted in a new NonLive specification being published. "
" For audio loudness monitoring and
reporting tools to be compliant with
both standards, they must be able
to switch between Non-Live and Live
mode and allow operators to adjust in
Non-Live from a target level of -23.0
LUFS +/-0.5 LU and for Live (including
as-live) -230. LUFS +/-1.0 LU. Leader's
Version 5.3 software allows this to be
performed quickly and easily with all
relevant information clearly visible
on the LV5600's monitor display and
LV6700's rasterized output. "
" These and ongoing enhancements

to the ZEN series demonstrate the
flexibility and future expandability of
Leader products which continue to
provide unsurpassed support for the
rapidly developing broadcast world. "
Leader's LV5600 is a mains-powered
SDI/IP waveform monitor in a halfrack width 3 U desktop chassis with
a touchscreen front panel display. It
provides all the facilities needed to
monitor UHD/HD/SD SDI as well as
video-over-IP signals seamlessly in a
hybrid operating environment. The
LV5600 also incorporates Leader's
intuitive CINEZONE and CINELITE
which are familiar to many content
production staff.

Bridge Technologies Partners With
North American 2110 Solutions
B
ridge Technologies has
announced its partnership
with 2110 Solutions, an
emerging distributor and
manufacturer's representative
operating throughout North
America. 2110 Solutions will
integrate Bridge's VB440 into
its product range, along with
a number of the company's
other IP-based solutions.
2110's aim is to bridge the gap
between the technical and creative
aspects
of
production,
using
technology in a way that supports
rather than distracts from viewer
enjoyment.
A fundamental component of this is
ensuring that media transportation is
facilitated without error, and therefore
effective monitoring of the full
range of data streams is a backbone
element of any high-level production
environment. Bridge's VB440 is suited
to both conventional production
studios, but, more notably, outside
broadcast trucks and venues - making

it a particularly relevant addition in
2110 Solutions' product line-up.
In essence, the VB440 enables
production teams to continuously
survey
all
layers
of
media
transportation on an IP network
and facilitates quick rectification
of potential problems, helping to
maximise Quality of Service (QoS).
Using html-5 based tools, through the
creation of both the Instrument View
and Widglets API, Bridge have taken
their deep knowledge of analytics
and packet behavior and presented
this in a way that is intuitive even to
those without high-level IP knowledge.
This means that the VB440 can aid

creatives - such as camera
painters - in their tasks
without needing specialist
network
professionals
onboard.
Simen Frostad, CEO of
Bridge Technologies, said:
" We are constantly pushing
for end-users to recognize
the importance of building
monitoring solutions into their setups
from the beginning. 2110 Solutions
shares our understanding of this; they
recognize how important effective
monitoring solutions are when building
a production environment to maximize
creative possibilities and ensure
consistent, high-level of performance.
With Bridge products sitting at the core
of the comprehensive solutions offered
by 2110, producers can be sure that
the production environments being
created for them are operating at
the highest level of effectiveness and
efficiency, and are deployable across a
whole range of potential applications,
both now and in the future " .
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