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InNews
TiVo Renews Deal
With Liberty Global
USA: TiVo Corporation has
announced that Liberty Global
has renewed its existing product
agreements and signed a multiyear extension to their intellectual
property license. Tom Carson,
President and CEO, TiVo, said:
"Liberty Global's expanded license
helps them optimise entertainment
experiences for their customers
and underscores the value
TiVo brings to modern TV and
broadband leaders around the
world."
This extension provides Liberty
Global with expanded access to
TiVo's patent portfolios and covers
all Liberty Global subsidiaries.

Wazee Extends
AWS Contract
USA: Wazee Digital has announced
it has extended its technology
contract with Amazon Web
Services (AWS). The extension will
see all Wazee Digital products and
operations run on AWS.
By ensuring its solutions support
AWS, Wazee Digital can provide
customers with more flexibility
in terms of workflow, scale, and
performance.
Wazee Digital is migrating more
than 5PBs of data and hundreds of
web servers to the AWS Cloud, with
more data being ingested.

Archiware P5 Suite
Gains LTO-8 Support
GER: Archiware has announced
support for the upcoming LTO-8
tape technology developed by
the LTO Consortium. The LTO
Ultrium format is certified for the
P5 Software Suite by courtesy of
Quantum Labs. It is compatible
with Archiware's tape-supported
modules, P5 Archive and P5
Backup. LTO 8 Ultrium radically
advances usability and data
management in combination with
Archiware's P5 Software Suite.
For P5 Backup, the performance
is improved with a transfer rate
of 360 MB/sec native (750 MB/sec
compressed).

Platinum IP3 Router
Drives Live UHD At TVB

I

magine
Communications
has
provided Television Broadcasts
Limited (TVB), the largest broadcaster
in Hong Kong and a leading Asian
content producer, with the signal
routing capabilities for both its mobile
and studio-based live production
operations.
TVB has installed a Platinum IP3
router at the heart of two large
production
studios.
A
second
Platinum IP3 28RU is providing signal
management for TVB's latest Ultra HDready OB truck.
"Since the 1990s, we have been
working with Imagine Communications
to deploy solutions such as baseband
routers, processing, playout servers
and automation systems," said Andy
Cheung, Chief Engineer, Engineering,

TVB. "This time we chose Imagine
Communications' Platinum IP3 router
to fulfil our signal routing needs."
Along with signal assignment,
the Platinum IP3 router installed
in the technical area that
covers the live operations from
TVB's main studios provides
a broad range of integrated
functionality, including frame
synchronisation, multiviewers
and audio multiplexing/demultiplexing and shuffling.
The
Platinum-powered
OB truck provided 4K/UHD
coverage of the 2017 UCI Track
Cycling World Championships in
Hong Kong in April, and was used at
other international events throughout
the year.

Dielectric And QMI Agree
Nine Station Repack Deal
D

ielectric will ship the first antenna
systems to Quincy Media Inc
(QMI) in the spring of 2018 to cover
TV stations affected by Phase One and
Phase Two of the U.S. spectrum repack.
The full nine-station deal comprises
a mix of UHF and VHF antennas, filters
and transmission line customised for
each station.
While QMI anticipates repack work
with Dielectric across all nine repack
phases, the initial nine-station deal
was struck to accommodate the tight
timelines of the first two phases.
"We have all of our primary and
interim antenna designs for Phase
A TFU-WB UHF
broadband antenna

Imagine Communications
Platinum IP3 router

One and Two ready to go, and are
now turning our attention to the
later phases," said Brady Dreasler,
Corporate Director of Engineering,
Quincy Media Inc. "However, we
needed to have our first two stations
addressed very rapidly, and the
support and high-quality engineering
we have received from Dielectric over
the years clearly made them the right
choice."
Dreasler worked directly with
Dielectric's Global OEM Sales Manager,
Cory Edwards, to design side and
top-mounted, high-power antennas
for each system using the company's
Dielectric Antenna Systems Planning
DASP software program.
The first shipment includes six TFUWB UHF broadband antennas for QMI
stations in need of interim repack
antennas as tower crews remove old
systems.
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