Intraplex Audio Codecs for Broadcast STL and Distribution

STL Audio Networking

GatesAir Intraplex solutions deliver that rock-solid, always-on assurance that radio broadcasters and public safety officials require in today’s transport and communications chain. Built on a legacy of studio-to-transmitter link (STL) innovation, Intraplex solutions are synonymous with reliable signal transport and synchronization, ensuring that audio and data signals reach their destinations clean, on time and intact.

The Intraplex family envelops the entire signal transport spectrum, with tried-and-true fixed microwave, T1/E1 and IP-based solutions to deliver high-quality audio, voice and data signals. In broadcasting, these solutions reliably move single or multiple channels of program audio - and all program-associated data – between one or more locations for STL applications.

Intraplex solutions move beyond STL to studio-to-studio transport, live remotes, and content contribution and distribution. Flexible IP codec solutions enable efficient transport over the network for all of these applications, ensuring that broadcasters can effectively move content between locations for virtually any on-air need.

Simulcasting

GatesAir Intraplex simulcasting technologies move beyond simple transport, helping broadcasters and public safety organizations maximize networking capabilities across challenging conditions. From reaching more listeners to increasing emergency response times, Intraplex solutions offer a reliable audio delivery solution for any situation.

In broadcasting, Intraplex simulcasting solutions address signal coverage across challenging terrains and large transmitter networks, with perfectly timed synchronization and delivery of on-air content. This is especially useful for single-frequency networks, where many low- and medium-power transmitters work in cooperation to boost on-air signal coverage to improve broadcast quality across entire markets or regions.

Beyond broadcast, these same simulcasting solutions – and other market-leading Intraplex audio and data transport systems – simplify mission-critical communications for public safety across cities, counties and states. Collectively, bandwidth-efficient signal transport and precise timing control technologies across RF, T1/E1 and IP connections ensure efficient and effective message delivery across many locations under frequently difficult conditions.

Audio and Data Networking

Digital radio and television has changed how broadcasters transport audio and data. Broadcasters require integrated stream transport solutions that bring multiple air chain elements together into a common platform. This simplifies the way that broadcasters move on-air content between components and locations, while creating new opportunities to simplify architecture and incorporate revenue-generating digital services.

GatesAir has developed groundbreaking audio and data networking solutions to efficiently serve today’s digital radio and TV environments. Market-leading IP transport solutions for digital radio simplify distribution across complex architectures. This includes HD Radio, where GatesAir’s complete multiplexing solutions combine multiple program channels at the studio - including audio and program-associated data - for seamless delivery to the transmitter site.

GatesAir also offers the only integrated solution for robust DAB transport over IP, using the advanced EDI protocol to contribute and distribute on-air signals across large transmitter networks. GatesAir’s transport solutions extend to the digital television space, with integrated exciters, demodulators and satellite receivers that can efficiently process many transport streams (ASI over IP, satellite and more) for distribution across over-the-air architectures – allowing TV broadcasters to work across multiple signal types.