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News Release from: RadioScape
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 20 February 2004
CBC Radio Canada selects DAB upgrade
Canada's national public service broadcaster is set to upgrade its DAB broadcast infrastructure.
The Canadian market for DAB (digital audio broadcast) is poised to take off and will be helped by the national public service broadcaster CBC Radio Canada's programme of upgrading its DAB broadcast infrastructure CBC has chosen RadioScape's innovative Professional DAB broadcast system for the first multiplex in this upgrade rollout which will be located in Vancouver
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Francois Gauthier, Senior Engineer for Strategy and Planning at CBC, said: "I evaluated all the systems available on the market and selected RadioScape as it offers several clear advantages over rivals.
It is a very sophisticated solution that is easy to use and provided the best quality sound in our evaluation tests.
Being a software-based solution means that it is easy to remotely monitor and control, which is vitally important as I am based in Montreal and the multiplex is in Vancouver on the other side of Canada - a five hour flight away".
The Professional DAB broadcast system from RadioScape consists of a series of software modules, connected by a unique IP-based architecture that controls and delivers audio and data from the studio together with any external service providers, taking care of encoding and multiplexing to provide a complete baseband DAB broadcasting solution.
RadioScape's easy to use scheduling software enables users to maintain what has traditionally been a complex task.
The software runs on standard industrial PCs so that hardware maintenance is straightforward.
New software updates and enhancements can be easily uploaded to provide system improvements.
Nigel Oakley, RadioScape's VP of Marketing, added: "Our broadcast system is used for over 90% of commercial DAB broadcasts in the UK and more than 40 overseas DAB broadcast systems.
This sale into Canada is the first of many more that we are working on all around the world as countries accelerate their roll out programme for DAB.
Our unique solution offers superb flexibility and quality at a very competitive price with the guarantee of being future proof by virtue of being software-based unlike rival solutions that are hardware-based".
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