NTP Completes New Audio Router Contract For Radio Nacional De España

Delivery of a digital audio switching and routing system for Spanish state broadcaster Radio Nacional de España (RNE) has been completed by NTP Technology.
Installed at RNE's Madrid headquarters, the system consists of 11 NTP 625 router frames with one main-frame and 12 sub-frames. Six of the sub-frames are equipped with analog I/O and six with AES/EBU I/O.
Total matrix size is 1024 x 1024 including 384 stereo AES/EBU I/O connections and 384 transformer-coupled analog mono I/O connections. The contract was negotiated by NTP's Spanish distributor Lexon Broadcast. NTP 625 routing systems have also been delivered to some of RNE's regional centres following the award of a public-tender contract.
Mikael Vest, NTP Technology Sales Manager, said: "Radio Nacional de España has been using an NTP 625 routing system for the past six years in Master Control 2. The new installation is operated via an NTP 635-300 controller installed with the recently-introduced version 3.0 QNX based router control core which offers main-and-redundant database support and fast TCP/IP control.
"All I/Os are equipped with a crosspoint in-line processor engine which handles fading, dynamics and parametric EQ.
"These functions are accessed via an NTP BLISS software console for easy manipulation of parameters such as talk-back and mix minus," he said.
NTP's 625 digital audio router is a modular system based on the 625-800 19 inch 5 RU chassis which houses up to 18 plug-in modules configured as 5 RU high hot-swappable cards. Each chassis is scalable up to 2048 x 2048 crosspoints and can accommodate a redundant power supply and redundant frame controller. The supporting range of modules includes a sampling-rate converter, analogue I/O, AES/EBU I/O, microphone input, MADI interfaces, CPU/clock, QNX-based frame controller, optical interfaces and TDM interfaces. All I/O cards incorporate gain, filtering, summing, phase, delay, compressor/limiter, level detection and phase detection. VMC660 software controls the router system in terms of crosspoints, scheduling and signal surveillance.
Integrated into the state public broadcasting body RTVE (Radiotelevisión Española) in 1973, RNE is the Spanish state public radio service. The network consists of six channels:

• Radio Nacional, a general channel with a broad spectrum of mostly speech-based programming
• Radio Clásica broadcasting concerts and classical music
• Radio 3 focusing on pop, rock and folk music
• Rádio 4 delivering regional broadcasting in Catalan
• Radio 5 Todo Noticias broadcasting 24-hour news
• Radio Exterior de España, an international service on short wave with an audience of 80 million listeners. This station is also transmitted in DAB for Spain and by satellite

RNE's output is also available online.
NTP Technology develops, manufactures and distributes broadcast-quality digital audio routers and control software for the world market. The company was established in 1958 and is a major supplier of high-reliability audio routing systems for major international broadcasters. NTP products are integrated into television and radio stations as well as major production centres, post-production facilities and outside broadcast vehicles.
Further information is available at: www.ntp.dk.
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