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VEGAS, April 13, 2008 — Harris Corporation
introduces a suite of new products and upgrades to
its FlexStar® family of HD Radio™ products
at NAB2008, including a new exporter developed in
cooperation with the National Association of Broadcasters
and iBiquity Digital Radio. The Harris® HDE-200
exporter brings HD Radio broadcasters a unique feature
set that better supports the delivery of multiple
HD Radio program streams over a single, dedicated
IP connection — at a much lower price than the
previous generation of exporters.
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The development of the new exporter is driven by the
need to fortify the E2X (exporter-to-exciter) protocol
in the HD Radio transmission chain while minimizing
implementation costs for the radio station. The Harris
Pacific Design Center, with its expertise in embedded
designs, has embedded new software code from iBiquity
Digital into a fully functional hardware component with
no moving parts, which enables increased reliability.
At only 1RU, the HDE-200 offers a drastically reduced
footprint with more features and options than its predecessor.
The
Harris HDE-200 exporter supports TCP over IP transport
of the E2X protocol to enhance the robustness of the
HD Radio transport stream, as well as HD Protocol
(HDP), a new transport layer protocol that provides
support for IP distribution from a central studio
to multiple transmission sites. The HDE-200 exporter
also includes remote and front-panel metering and
monitoring features and an internal GPS module, as
well as options for profanity delay, diversity delay
and an Arbitron People Meter to help reduce the cost
of equipment upstream.
Harris
also introduces a new Host Audio Extraction feature
to its FlexStar® HDX-FM exciter. The Host Audio
Extraction feature is an embedded audio extractor
that allows broadcasters to extract analog program
audio out of the STL transport stream at the exciter
and send it directly to the analog FM transmitter.
The process eliminates the need for a separate analog-only
audio path from the studio to transmitter, preserving
bandwidth and reducing the costs and complexity of
audio transport by encoding both the analog and HD
Radio program streams within the same bitstream, and
transporting each stream over a single STL connection
to the transmission site.
The
FlexStar family of HD Radio products is among the
wide range of Harris solutions that optimize the encoding,
multiplexing and transport workflows of today's analog
FM and HD Radio broadcast operations.
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Société
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Agence
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Rwtr
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20/04/2008
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CP/Mail
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Harris
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Meriam
Khan
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MKM
Comm.
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JPL
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Audio,
Architectures |
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