MIRA Mobile TV Chooses QuStream Integrity and Cheetah

QuStream Corporation has received a major order from MIRA Mobile Television for Cheetah routing and Integrity signal-processing equipment.
Based in the Pacific Northwest, MIRA Mobile is the largest mobile facilities provider in the western USA with mobile units ranging from a 48 foot digital straight truck to 53 foot High Definition expando's.
MIRA Mobile TV has been providing remote television production services for over two decades, covering regional and national sporting events, entertainment programming, corporate and other special events.
MIRA's facilities and engineering support have earned a national reputation for excellence.
"M7HD will be the seventh truck in our fleet but the first built around QuStream's routing and signal-processing technology," said Bill Duncan, MIRA's Director of Engineering.
"Given QuStream's presence in the majority of major-company production trucks on the road and their commitment to customer satisfaction, we felt confident that using their gear will provide M7HD with the highest-quality infrastructure of any HD truck available."
MIRA Mobile's routing system is anchored by the Cheetah 288XE HD/3G digital-video router and the Cheetah DRS distributed audio systems.
Populated with an active matrix of 288 inputs and 576 outputs, the Cheetah 288XE video router provides the central backbone for all SD/HD routing today and 1080P routing tomorrow with its 3G capability.
Complimenting the sophisticated 288XE is the Cheetah DRS distributed audio routing.
Configured for 256 AES and 256 analog in and out, the innovative Cheetah DRS provides a complete paradigm shift in audio-routing architecture.
"The Cheetah DRS allows for our audio routing to be distributed throughout the truck in multiple 1ru I/O modules," continued Duncan.
"Gone are the days when we had to homerun hundreds of audio cables back and forth throughout the truck - now we interconnect everything via redundant Cat-5 cable.
"The space, weight and power savings are phenomenal. We anticipate using this technology in interfacing mobile units together using the fiber interconnect as well."
(BMcC)