In Broadcast - NAB SHOW 2018 - 33
33 www.inbroadcast.com | NAB Show 7-12 April 2018 | Product Preview Still Undecided About Going Fully IP? With major technology changes facing the broadcast industry, Jünger Audio overcomes the challenges and restores your peace of mind, reveals Friedemann Kootz, Senior Product Manager... I t is no secret that production and broadcast technology is undergoing a major overhaul with media over IP becoming the big player, while dedicated interfaces see a slow but inevitable decline. This transition phase may bring opportunity for all, but it also brings uncertainty for many. Seeing the need for large scale processing systems with cloud capabilities and load balancing on demand on one hand, and the necessity to deliver a future proof solution that still covers the current situation on the other, Jünger Audio has developed flexAI - a groundbreaking way of approaching product design. The acronym unravels to 'Flexible Audio Infrastructure', which perfectly describes its underlying idea. flexAI is Jünger Audio's infrastructure for softwaredefined products enabling us to create new products on customer demand. Our software-defined products scale and grow with the user's need for channel count and processing capabilities. To expand its scalability even further and shift it up to hardware level, flexAI-based products can run on Jünger Audio's new line of servers and the AIXpressor, on view for the first time at this NAB show. AIXpressor is a powerful 1RU processor with comprehensive built-in interfaces, including redundant Audio over IP and standard IP network ports, MADI, AES3 and analog inputs and outputs. Additionally, AIXpressor has four expansion slots to hold interface cards. With these capabilities AIXpressor can easily bridge the gap where no final decision for a prospective infrastructure has been reached yet. Setting up a traditional system with SDI interfaces for currently installed systems while preserving all options to immediately change over to IP is AIXpressor's biggest strength - and it goes even further. If the transition becomes imminent in your facility, just expand your flexAIbased software product with Jünger Audio's server processing power and leave traditional audio interfaces behind while keeping all settings and the system setup. With our software defined products AIXpressor based on flexAI, it does not matter what 'electrical means' you choose to bring in the data. The new concept of hardwareindependent applications enables Jünger Audio's R&D team to react extremely fast to the transforming demands of the market. With this strategy we can remain your reliable partner for traditional broadcast processors as well as bringing our world-renowned technology into previously undiscovered applications. At NAB, the first software product to be released based on flexAI will be Streamtools TS, the most flexible and powerful transport stream audio processor you have ever seen. www.jungeraudio.com