NAB 2013, Booth N2513 – Miranda Technologies, a Belden Brand, a global provider of integrated solutions for production, playout and delivery systems for television broadcasters and multi-system operators, will release a series of new options for its NVISION 8500 (NV8500) Hybrid Router Series at NAB 2013. The new options include a single, eight-input frame sync card, two powerful new control panels and a significantly upgraded router control system.
Significant new upgrades to router controller system also to be shown
NAB 2013, Booth N2513 –Miranda Technologies, a Belden Brand, a global provider of integrated solutions for production, playout and delivery systems for television broadcasters and multi-system operators, will release a series of new options for its NVISION 8500 (NV8500) Hybrid Router Series at NAB 2013. The new options include a single, eight-input frame sync card, two powerful new control panels and a significantly upgraded router control system.
Traditional applications that require eight frame synchronizers also need eight processing cards. Now, Miranda has designed the NV8500 Frame Sync Input Card, a single input card that can take wild feeds or inter-facility signals of various video formats and sync them to a house standard. The card provides eight frame synchronizers with support for 3Gbps, HD and SD and helps reduce space, weight, power and cabling requirements by integrating this modular function inside the router. To add further value and functionality, the card also performs audio disembedding in addition to its frame sync functions.
The NV8500 router also now features the option of a new DEM/EMB Output Card, a hybrid, 16-channel disembedding and embedding card that provides a high degree of flexibility with the ability to embed audio into any embedded audio channel – anywhere - while preserving the integrity of other embedded audio channels. From any standard input card, the DEM/EMB output card enables the router to easily shuffle original embedded audio as required for each channel.
Miranda’s new, multifunctional NV9648 and NV9649 control panels are able to emulate existing control panels from a variety of brands and offer more third-party interfaces and options than any control panel on the market, thus providing an ideal replacement for those looking to upgrade to highly advanced levels of control.
Miranda has also launched a significant upgrade to its NV9000 Router Control System which includes an all-new tieline management architecture that is more efficient and scalable that ever, even when using hundreds of tielines. The release of “Dynamic Hybrid Pathfinding” (DHP), enables less expensive hybrid router configurations to have unparalleled access to internal processing functions. DHP is unique to Miranda and is designed to allow any video input access the smaller hybrid disembedding and embedding resources of a router in such a way that the operator has no reason to care about how the router hardware is configured. This provides an affordable way to easily maximize the potential of a hybrid routing system.
Additional new router control features include Web Suite, a browser-accessible status and control system, with new options to make it possible to gradually move from existing legacy routing systems to new, modern, 3G routing systems.
The extensive range of router upgrade options provide not only tightly integral command and control, but a powerful breadth of functionality that offer a straight-line route to facility modernization.
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Editors Note: Miranda’s NAB Press Conference will be held on Monday April 8 at 8:00 AM in the Las Vegas Hotel and Casino (formerly the Las Vegas Hilton) in conference room 11/12. The press conference will feature senior executives from Miranda and Belden, who will focus on strategic elements (recent acquisitions, Belden’s Broadcast platform and others) as well as a key application solution new for NAB.
Additionally, Belden Executive Vice President Denis Suggs will offer his perspectives as part of a panel discussion on Mergers & Acquisitions, Valuation Perspectives from Industry Executives during the Media Technology: Strategy and Evaluation session on Sunday April 7, from 3:10-3:45 PM in North Hall rooms N239/N241.
Sam Pemberton, CEO of Softel, will present a technical paper entitled Intelligent Uses of Speech Analysis Tools in the Ancillary Data, Metadata and Captioning Areas of Broadcast to Reduce Costs and Cater to Dramatically Increased Media Throughout as part of the Television Quality Assurance strand on Tuesday April 9, from 9:00-9:30 AM in S227.
CBC Director of Media Presentation Scott Stewardson and CBC Director of Media Engineering Jeff Vella feature Miranda’s iTX Playout Platform prominently in a technical paper Integrated Content Presentation at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporationon Tuesday April 9, from 2:00-3:00 PM in S228.
Sara Kudrle, senior software engineer at Miranda, will present an NAB technical paper entitled Fingerprints for Measuring and Correcting A/V Syncronization on Wednesday April 10, from 10:30-11:00 AM in S227 and she will also participate in three sessions at the PBS TechCon 13, taking place at Planet Hollywood from April 3-5. Also at TechCon 13, Peter Wharton, director of Sales, File-Based Solutions at Miranda, will present The Future of Core Station Technology: A Tale of Three Cities from 4:00-5:20 PM in Melrose Rooms 1&2.
About Miranda Technologies
For over 23 years, Miranda Technologies (www.miranda.com) has been a leading worldwide provider of hardware and software solutions for the television broadcast, cable, satellite and IPTV industry. Its solutions span the full breadth of television operations, including production, playout and delivery. With a wealth of experience in delivering IT-based and traditional television systems, Miranda leverages its expertise to create the highest quality solutions available and delivers, deploys and supports them with a company-wide commitment to keeping the customer first. Miranda was acquired in July 2012 by St. Louis-based Belden Inc. and is the cornerstone of its broadcast division. Belden is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of cables, connectivity and networking products for many industries including broadcast, entertainment, consumer electronics, education, transportation and industrial automation. For more information, visit www.belden.com
Miranda Technologies contact:
David Cohen
Director, Marketing Communications
+1 215-837-8699
