Tuesday, January 29, 2019

U.S. Trade and Development Agency Helps GatesAir Team Up with the Ethiopian Broadcasting Authority for Digital Television Transition

Excerpted from the official USTDA press release, "USTDA Connects U.S. Industry with ICT Opportunities in Ethiopia," originally posted on January 17, 2019:

Arlington, VA – The U.S. Trade and Development Agency signed a grant with the Ethiopian Broadcasting Authority for a training program supporting the expansion and modernization of Ethiopia's nationwide broadcast television industry. The Ethiopian Broadcasting Authority is responsible for ensuring the expansion of broadcasting service that can contribute to the political, social and economic development of the country. Digital television transition (DTT) and media development is the focal area for the transition of the broadcast sector. The training is in partnership with GatesAir, Inc., an Ohio-based electronics company that produces and services over-the-air TV and radio broadcast equipment globally.

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Monday, April 17, 2017

GatesAir’s NAB Show 2017 Presentations

GatesAir's thought leadership in over-the-air broadcast will be on full demonstration at the 2017 NAB Show next week. We invite our customers and peers to join us in any or all of these compelling panels and presentations on today's most important topics in TV and Radio.

Jay Adrick – The VOA Museum

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Monday, April 03, 2017

Take a Live Look at this Network Analytics Offer

GatesAir is pleased to announce a limited-time promotion that waives the fee for the optional network analytics tool Intraplex® LiveLook in the IP Link 100P, 200P and 100M products, a $635 value. Additionally, we will be offering this software option at 50% price reduction of $317 for the IP Link 100. Now through June 30th, 2017, all Intraplex IP Link products purchased during will integrate Intraplex LiveLook software for the life of the product.

LiveLook is an off-board network analytics and monitoring software for the IP Link codec platform. It provides a graphical analysis of both real-time and historical network performance data as well as the monitoring of audio streams' state changes and optional email notification capability. The LiveLook software provides a single management application to analyze and monitor all the audio streams of the network. In addition, the tool incorporates report generation capability which analyzes the selected network performance data and recommends the best error protection technique of the IP Link codec to use.

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Thursday, April 07, 2016

GatesAir Shapes Vision for an Over-the-Air Future at 2016 NAB Show

At the 2016 NAB Show, GatesAir continues its legacy of presenting educational thought leadership papers on trends and developments connected to over-the-air TV and radio broadcasting. It is just one of many ways that GatesAir Connects What's Next for broadcasters worldwide.

From Saturday through Tuesday, GatesAir executives and technologists will present nine papers as part of the Broadcast Engineering Conference. Topics include how the TV spectrum repack will affect both television and radio broadcasters, including RF plant preparations and an FCC spectrum auction update. Additionally, GatesAir thought leaders will present four papers around the next-generation ATSC 3.0 DTV standard, including advanced emergency alerting and an engineering focus on physical layer testing in the field. These are just some of the highlights.

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Tuesday, August 04, 2015

New Patents Awarded to GatesAir

GatesAir has added another seven patent awards to its legacy of 238 previous US and Global patents, providing a foundation to improve signal quality and enhance technical efficiencies in the over-the-air broadcast architecture. The new patent awards illustrate the continued innovation of the industry's pioneering over-the-air TV and radio solutions provider, with countless hours of hard work and dedication from the company's leading scientists and engineers aimed at propelling the industry forward.

The full list of awarded patents and their recipients is as follows:

• Ted Staros, John Levieux: Method for reducing digital filter coefficient word size and apparatus therefor
• Junius Kim: Predictable coding delay over communication networks
• Geoff Mendenhall: Operation of an antenna on a second, higher frequency
• Jay Adrick: Systems and methods for presentation of digital media at a mobile platform
• Dmitri Borodulin, Kevin Berndsen: Linearization of heterogeneous power amplifier systems
• Dmitri Borodulin, George Cabrera: Broadband high efficiency amplifier system incorporating dynamic modulation of load impedance
• Dmitri Borodulin, George Cabrera: Push-Pull amplification systems and methods

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

The Winds of Change March Forward

By: Phil Argyris, CEO, GatesAir, Mason, OH

St. Patrick's Day has varied meanings for many people, but those who celebrate the day all share its festive spirit. Here at GatesAir, the lone March holiday brings a second reason to celebrate: The one-year anniversary of our company's formation.

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Monday, July 21, 2014

A Transformative First Year

by Charlie Vogt, CEO of Imagine Communications and GatesAir

This month marks my one-year anniversary with Imagine Communications and GatesAir (formerly Harris Broadcast). I wanted to take a moment to reflect on how the company has transformed into the clear industry leader, and specifically our alignment with the media broadcast industry, our customers, channel partners and prospective customers.

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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Harris Broadcast Acquires Imagine Communications

by Stacey Stith

I am pleased to inform you that today we completed the acquisition of Imagine Communications, a California-based company specializing in digital video solutions for online providers and TV Everywhere applications. While this acquisition serves to strengthen our end-to-end solutions portfolio, I am more energized by the possibilities it opens for collaboration with our customers as the industry navigates the new multiscreen world.

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Thursday, January 30, 2014

A Collision of Telecom and Broadcast

by Glenn LeBrun, Sr. Director – Marketing, Harris Broadcast

Just when you think you understand your world, it gets sideswiped by something you didn't see coming. This is true of the impending collision – or convergence – of the telecom and broadcast industries.

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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Transmission TCO. Really? Yes, Really.

by Bill Betts, Product Marketing

Total Cost of Ownership – TCO. You see it used everywhere these days: when shopping for a new car, investing in an IT system, assessing manufacturing equipment and even the deployment of lap top computers for business – and it's now the latest buzz word for the transmission industry. But what does it really mean for broadcasters? Is it just the efficiency of the power amplifier? Cranking up that number is easy, if you don't mind narrowing the bandwidth or sacrificing error correction. But I think that the key word is "total", so let's take a look at the myriad of factors that make up TCO in a transmission system.

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