Digigram details the advantages of the Iqoya X/Link-MPX, its latest encoder

The Iqoya X/Link-MPX, the latest encoder Digigram, has been designed for the delivery of FM MPX composite signals to one or more transmission sites.

Currently, most studio-to-transmitter links for FM broadcasts are based on the Transport of baseband audio signal over IP networks. This requires the FM composite MPX signal to be generated at each broadcast site with devices such as sound processors and RDS encoders.

In order for the transport of the MPX signal to be developed within the studio, Digigram has created the Iqoya X/Link-MPX. The solution is compatible with Analog MPX and AES192 digital MPX, allowing signal distribution MPX analog to analog, analog to digital and digital to digital. Thanks to the optional compression of µMPX, “the cost of transportation can be reduced by using low-cost network links.”

Advantages of the Iqoya X/Link-MPX

Digigram has listed the main advantages of its latest encoder. First of all, the company points out that the system reduces operating costs at stations by allowing sound processing and RDS encoding to be centralized in the studio. On the other hand, it provides a “optimized IP transport bandwidth”, as the device can conserve network bandwidth thanks to µMPX compression.

The Iqoya X/Link-MPX, in the words of Digigram, also has a “reliable hardware”, based on the same hardware platform as the Iqoya X/Link range and with two internal redundant power supplies. Finally, the encoder presents “robust IP sequences” thanks to a “double and redundant transmission with time diversity in PCM”.