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Norwia – Optical Distribution Made Easy
Tracey J W Ford,
Chief Sales &
Marketing Officer,
Norwia

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K, 4K and other high bandwidth
broadcast signals seem to be
forging ahead in the pursuit of quality
with the belief that customers need
this. Maybe it is what manufacturers
believe is revenue generating areas
of business? Whatever the reason
we still need to migrate to fibrebased systems to allow for currently
used formats and what is coming
in the future.
What I am stating is not an
increase of bandwidth – this is
given – but a different and easy way
of giving value, giving flexibility and
designing systems.
Fibre-based systems on the
market today don’t address the
challenges of today’s users and
sadly most users are not aware of
the possibilities next generation fibre
systems offer.

Norwia has the next generation
optical fibre distribution platform
where these challenges are
successfully solved.
How are these solved? Norwia
has develop a unique technology
called AutoSFP, this is more than just
using SFP-based technology which
is currently available to all. AutoSFP
is a combination of intelligent
configuration, hardware, control
and SFP optics that integrates
seamlessly to provide a huge amount
of flexibility.
The benefit of AutoSFP to the
customer includes pre and post
savings of being able to reuse
and change the functionality of
the equipment depending on the
application needed.
AutoSFP is an intelligent automatic
configuration system that required
no configuration software and
no hands-on hardware changing.
The hard work of changing signal
direction only requires the user to
change the SFP, not the hardware
card, not the backplane connection
panel and no user interaction for
reconfiguration software and this can

Intelligent flexibility – Norwia miniHUB offers AutoSFP technology

be all done in-situ, whereas that was
not possible before. It’s taken care
of by the Norwia miniHUB’s unique
AutoSFP technology.
This is literally done in seconds
rather than hours. In one case it
saved US$5,000 in outsources cost
to change a couple of signals around.
MiniHUB will perform generic
applications which accounts for
most configurations for optical
distribution. In addition the miniHUB
can perform over 150 different
combinations of application on
the same hardware card by using
Norwia’s AutoSFP technology.
Literally this is like having 150
different cards in one package
at the same price! This enables

less spares which is a technical
advantage and a cost saving benefit
to customers of the miniHUB optical
distribution system.
The miniHUB optical distribution
platform is the next generation
optical system that can change
between point-to-point optical
distributions to multiplexed CWDM
system to an optical DA to an optical
transponder to optical changeover to
a complex Add Drop Pass network
with east west redundancy all with
the same hardware you purchased
the first time.
IBC2013 is a perfect opportunity to
come and view the miniHUB optical
distribution system and see how
adaptable the platform can be.
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InNEWS: Panasonic Announces AK-HC3500A Camera
InNEWS: Shotoku Elevates Newscasting for KETK-TV
InFOCUS: Camera Links – Following All the Vital Action
InTECH: Fischer Connections Solutions for Broadcast
InMEDIA: Delivering Anytime Content on Cable
InMEDIA: Screen – High Definition Subtitling and Beyond
InSOUND: DPA’s D:Dicate Recording Microphone Range
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In Broadcast - August 2013 - Contents
In Broadcast - August 2013 - InNEWS: Panasonic Announces AK-HC3500A Camera
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