Are You (Adaptive) Streaming Like You Mean It?

At Telos Alliance, one of our most popular pages on the site, consistently, is our Streaming Like They Mean It page, where we post live streams from around the globe of broadcasters who are using our Z/IPStream streaming software and hardware. We think that's because the quality of these streams is so good, people are tuning in to check it out, but then come back again and again, just to hear this great, and great-sounding, content. You can stream like these folks too, with a little help from our Z/IPStream X/2 and 9X/2 software, or our latest hardware edition, the Z/IPStream R/2—all three of which feature adaptive streaming technology.

Read on to learn more, and check out our special promotional pricing on Z/IPStream software to get started! 

Topics: Streaming Audio, adaptive streaming, broadcast streaming, streaming for radio

Dinner Music over IP in Finland

Since the AES67 standard was adopted in 2013, the AoIP landscape has become more robust and fluid. This interoperability standard ensures that AoIP gear from different manufacturers will work well together. Although we associate AES67 with broadcast infrastructure, the first project with the standard took place at Restaurant Nallikari in the Finnish city of Oulu, known as a hub for technology and wellness research. Jutel, also located there, completed the installation. Here, company founder and CTO Jorma Kivela explains how it all came about.

Why did you decide to become a Livewire Partner?

Topics: Telos Z/IP ONE

Radio Free Asia: Axia Early AoIP Adopters

As Axia celebrates the 13th anniversary of our invention of AoIP audio, we like to look back and acknowledge some of our early adopters, those brave souls who purchased Axia gear at a time when breaking from AES3 or analog and going with IP audio represented some serious risk taking. One of those was Radio Free Asia (RFA), a nonprofit international broadcaster with its headquarters in Washington, DC and satellite studios throughout the Pacific Rim. RFA broadcasts in nine languages, via shortwave, satellite transmissions, medium-wave, FM, and streaming online. Most of the broadcasts are in Mandarin Chinese, which is broadcast twelve hours per day. We spoke with RFA's CTO, David Baden, who has recently returned from India, where he set up the remote equipment for Radio Free Asia's live coverage of the Tibetan elections.

TWiRT 320 - Get Into My Cloud with Curtis Machek

Yet another “cloud” service? Yep, and it’s something that radio stations will find useful every day. Curtis Machek, CEO of Cloudcast Software is here, along with Chris Tobin and me. We’re also talking about AES67 and the practical side of making IP-Audio connections using this new standard.

Guest: Curtis Machek, CEO - Cloudcast Software

Hosts:  Chris Tobin, IP-Solutionist  and Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, & South Seas Broadcasting

Topics: Cloud

Photo & Video Gallery: Telos Alliance IBC 2016 Recap

IBC 2016 has come and gone, and this was one of our best shows yet! There were a lot of exciting things happening at both the Telos Alliance Radio stand and our newly formed TV Solutions Group stand. Read on to learn about the latest products, trends, and news. Plus watch our own videos live from the IBC show floor, and make sure to check out the photo gallery at the bottom. Maybe you'll spot yourself!

RNC Recap: Cleveland Area Station Finds Success with Z/IP ONEs

Prior to the recent Republican National Convention, we featured a story with Steve Neumann at WINT in Willoughby, Ohio, about 15 miles east of Cleveland, where the convention was held.

As the convention neared, WINT staff planned to employ a Telos Z/IP ONE IP Codec to broadcast live from the event. We thought we’d check in with Steve for a post-mortem and find out how things worked out at the RNC.

Topics: Telos Z/IP ONE

Vintage Audio: Comrex Buddy Remote Mixer

During the Dark Ages, before the coming of the Internet, most remote broadcasts involved the use of leased telephone lines. Usually these lines were installed by the phone company a few days before the broadcast. Typically, they ran from the remote site to the central office (CO), and from there, to the studios. Voice grade lines were usually ordered, sometimes they were equalized, sometimes not, depending on the distances involved. The good thing about these lines is they provided a guaranteed quality of service (QoS), i.e. if they didn't work, the phone company had to make it right. The bad news was that they required advance lead time with the phone company, and there was a cost for the use of these lines and their setup. If there were weekly sports remotes, these costs could easily add up. Normally this was just added to the sports budget. But there was an alternative for the budget minded.

A Trip to Tomorrowland

If you're into electronic music, the Tomorrowland festival is the place to be. During the last weekend in July, artists perform on 16 stages in Boom, Belgium, 32 kilometers north of Brussels. Starting in 2005 as a small one-day event, it has grown over the years to three days, multiple stages and international connections.

The second night of the event, known as Tomorrowland UNITE, involves a live video connection between Tomorrowland (Belgium) and cities in Mexico, India, Japan, Colombia, Germany, South Africa, and Israel.

Vintage Audio: Singer TTG-3 Two-Tone Audio Generator

Many of the items featured in Found in the Attic are familiar staples of the broadcast, test equipment or consumer electronics industries. But sometimes we feature the obscure. This is one of those times, as we revisit a college surplus grab from the 1970s, and look at the Singer Two-Tone Audio Generator Model TTG-3.

Part of what makes this device obscure is that it wasn't designed as a stand-alone piece of test equipment. Rather, it was a plug-in component of the Singer Panoramic Model SSB-50 Single Sideband Analyzer System. Since it is a two-tone generator, it could be used for single or two-tone modulation of single-sideband transmitters, intermod distortion tests, harmonic distortion tests, and general troubleshooting.

Topics: Vintage Electronics, Vintage Audio Technology