Canal Extremadura Televisión renews its intercom with AEQ

It updates its old Kroma intercom, incorporating a new Conexia matrix and adding IP and virtual user panels as well as an audiocodec.

Extremadura Television Channel has renewed its old Kroma intercom system for a new Conexia intercom system from AEQ.

The system is fully redundant, with Conexia intercom super controllers, mirrored BC2240 frame controllers, and duplicate power supplies, integrated to form a fail-over system that is transparently capable of overcoming any failure in a fundamental element of the system.

The connections are basically through the IP network with capacity for 192 AoIP ports compatible with broadcast audio.

However, for compatibility with panels already in use, the previous Kroma system installed in 2005, incorporates two cards with 8 channels each for Kroma digital panels with point-to-point wiring. It also has cards for 24 analog audio channels, and a card for connecting virtual panels, installed on PCs and iPods using the Xplorer application.

Cards for analog audio channels allow integrate the CCUs of the cameras, so that through them the filmmakers, lighting technicians and other production operators and coordinators communicate with the camera operators.

You can also use the analog inputs and outputs to connect the intercom with the sound consoles, since the user panels have auxiliary audio input and output and the quality of the entire system is suitable for broadcast broadcast. Thus, any panel can be used as an audio input interface to the sound console.

With the matrix, they have been delivered user panels for new jobs. In total, 19 user panels have been supplied in 16-key TP8116 rack format, to which 7 expansion panels are added to add keys in the most versatile positions, those that usually communicate with more users, especially those for executive coordination.

Properly programmed the actions in these panels will allow their users, with an expansion panel, to speak with 32 users, groups of different users or make crossing points, each on a physical key, or up to 128 if necessary, using the panel's paging function.

There is also a panel in desktop format TP8416, for a desktop workstation.

Virtual panels

On the other hand, twelve XVirtual licenses, to install virtual panels on PC or iPod, inside or outside the building. This facilitates the inclusion in the system of users who need to be connected in a simple way from their own office PC or even from their own iPhone or iPad.

Finally, an AEQ Phoenix Stratos dual audio codec has been supplied for external communications over IP.

The installation was carried out by Canal Extremadura engineers, after an AoIP training course given by the AEQ engineer, Raul Moreta. The configuration and operational adaptation has been developed by the exploitation management of Canal Extremadura with the advice of the AEQ Product Manager, Roberto Tejero. The AEQ operation has been coordinated by the Commercial Area Manager, Eduardo Guerrero.