New features strengthen the OmniBus iTX offering in radio applications

OmniBus Systems has improved the OmniBus iTX with new features that increase the automation and transmission capacity in radio environments with functions that aim to streamline network operations with processes such as Roll-Under/Join-in-Progress, the integration of EAS Digital, regional breakaway, live breaking news or the integrated Nielsen Digital watermark.

The OmniBus iTX system now takes a step forward with an efficient and versatile centralized radio broadcast model, which assumes a variety of roles for broadcast, production and streaming, easily adapting to any configuration of ingestion, production, broadcast and control throughout the workflow.

The new features that have been introduced to streamline the operations of radio networks include processes such as Roll-Under/Join-in-Progress, the integration of EAS Digital, regional breakaway, live breaking news or the integrated Nielsen Digital watermark.

With its easy adaptation to the grouping of multiple facilities in a single location or distribution of the workload of a central facility to more than one location, iTX also makes it possible for chains with a centralized emission model to protect against long-term outages at the central facility or at any location in a simple and cost-effective way. With its agility to deliver network streams or mobile applications in parallel with broadcast, iTX offers network owners the ability to develop new services quickly to respond to market conditions, while maintaining an output quality that not only matches, but exceeds the best that can be obtained with a conventional broadcast infrastructure.

DataDirect

OmniBus has added DataDirect Networks' (DDN) S2A architecture to its range of storage platforms that are certified for use with the iTX transmission and automation platform in critical broadcast and media applications.

DDN's xStreamScaler platform, along with the S2A9900 and S2A6620 storage systems, have been tested with iTX under continuous use mode to verify resiliency (recovery) and data integrity during intensive media transfer episodes.