Studer has adopted the Axia Livewire AoIP standard – a broadcast networking system using Ethernet to route and share audio and logic throughout a broadcast plant.
Under the Livewire Limitless License (L3) introduced in 2011, Studer is licensed to build a Livewire interface into any or all of its products, allowing ready single-cable connection to Axia networks and products from more than 30 other Livewire hardware and software partners.
‘We decided to adopt the Livewire standard from Axia following consultation with many customers on our new product strategy,’ says Harman Vice President & General Manager of Mixers, Microphones and Headphones (Soundcraft, Studer and AKG), Andy Trott. ‘Studer is embracing a very “open standards” philosophy as we launch more broadcast systems, and this is the first of many new partnership initiatives that we will be announcing over the next 18 months to provide our customers with increasing flexibility.’
‘Axia clients realise that the value of the network isn’t the network itself – it’s the variety of devices the network can connect to,’ says Axia President, Michael ‘Catfish’ Dosch. ‘The addition of Studer products to the already-impressive list of broadcast equipment that connects to Livewire underscores just how strongly broadcasters value standards-based networking.’
Axia builds Ethernet-based professional IP-Audio products for broadcast, sound-reinforcement and commercial audio applications. Along with the Element 2.0 modular console for on-air, commercial production, audio workstations and personal studios, the Axia line includes the PowerStation integrated console engine, intercom systems, digital audio routers, DSP mixers and processors, and software for configuring, managing and interfacing networked audio systems.
Studer recently launched the OnAir 1500 small footprint broadcast and production console and the Vista 5M2-22, the smallest Vista ever produced. Both consoles can be seen as part of the Studer Broadcast Academy (SBA); a free training and broadcast engineer certification facility housed in a custom-built, 73-ft truck currently touring the US. Similar training is offered at the Soundcraft Studer Customer Experience Centre and factory in the UK.
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