Intraplex
The Intraplex product line combines digital program audio with voice and data traffic for studio to studio or studio to transmitter links, while delivering the best-quality on-air sound available today.
By integrating bi-directional traffic on digital E1 links the Intraplex product can increase the efficiency and reliability of your networks. If you want more bandwidth, migrating to a 10/100BaseT MPLS network might be desirable. Intraplex's next generation of IP-based solutions, NetXpress, allows existing Intraplex users to take advantage of lower cost IP circuits while maintaining their current Intraplex systems, and provides a cost-effective entry point for new users who want the highest quality, most robust IP audio transport system available. Complemented by the ISDN, Variable Rate, CrossConnect and Synchrocast platforms, Intraplex offers the full multiplexing range for all your contribution / distribution audio needs.
Intraplex NetXpress™ (available early 2006) is a reliable, cost-efficient networking platform that enables multicast transport of multiplexed services over IP and can operate with the existing channel module range. Features include FEC, QoS Tagging, CIR Policing, Echo Cancellation, Voice Signalling, SNMP Network Management, Network Statistics. Video Overview (windows) right click save as
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Transports stereo audio over E1 circuits making it an ideal choice for a single studio to transmitter link or multi-location contribution and distribution network.
- Cross town or across country, digital audio is crystal clear regardless of distance
- E1 is bi-directional and allows simultaneous transport of LAN data, telephone circuits, and control channels over the same link
- E1 links cost less than the multiple leased circuits they can replace.
AudioLink PLUS can be deployed as a wide area network audio and data transport system allowing multiple locations to share resources, reducing operating costs. These applications "ride for free" with the program audio increasing your communications efficiency. The AudioLink PLUS operates over all types of E1 circuits: private line, public leased line, microwave and Spread Spectrum radio.
The E1 DCS-9500E CrossConnect combines multiplexing and cross connect capabilities in a single compact unit. CrossConnect Systems reduce costs by helping manage E1 lines to ensure efficient use of available transmission capacity.
The ACS-VR1 is a time division multiplexer that provides RS-422/449 or V.35 network interfaces and operates at any rate between 64 kbps and 1.536 Mbps in multiples of 64 kbps. The multiplexer can operate on fiber optic, terrestrial copper, or microwave circuits, and has unique features that optimize bandwidth efficiency, making it especially useful on satellite networks. Harris Intraplex multiplexers are characterized by their outstanding transmission robustness, and outperform other multiplexers when circuit uptime and reliability are key requirements. The ACS-VR1 has high tolerance to jitter and radio frequency interference (RFI), and can tolerate error rates higher than channel banks or other variable rate multiplexers. These multiplexers perform extremely well on networks with less than perfect transmission characteristics.
SynchroCast3
SynchroCast3 allows a radio station or mobile radio control point to dramatically
increase coverage by operating multiple transmitters overlapping each other
on the same frequency. SynchroCast3 uses GPS satellites and precision digital
timing to cause the signals from all transmitters to work together rather
than interfering with each other. This reduces or eliminates unwanted artifacts
at the listener’s receiver.
SynchroCast3 Applications
* Ring a market with signals from lower powered transmitters and equal
the coverage of a major market powerhouse
* Broadcast a single program along an entire interstate highway without
requiring listeners to change dial position
* Create a single frequency network to conserve scarce broadcast spectrum
* Add synchronized on-frequency boosters to strengthen dead or shadowed
zones
SynchroCast is based on the Intraplex STL PLUS and AudioLink PLUS, the popular digital STL systems that support bi-directional transport of program audio STL/TSL, remote control, LAN/WAN data and telephone service on a single T1 or E1 digital line over leased T1 or E1 circuits, microwave or spread spectrum radio links.
Channel Modules
Harris Intraplex Products offers the industry's widest range of standard and specialized plug-in modules in the family of Intraplex network access products. These modules combine program audio, voice, data and video to create virtually any mix of payload traffic for transport over E1, T1, ISDN and IP networks. Links to information on all of the Intraplex range of modules can be found in the table to the right.