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Table of Contents
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AV over Fiber Top Story
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Increasingly Strict
Environmental Regs Affect AV Fiber Applications
Applications of fiber optics in video-intensive
settings, a major source of potential growth for AV integrators working
with clients in many industries, also bring integrators in touch with a
growing range of environmental protection issues and initiatives.
"Globally, the high-tech industry has experienced a significant shift
in the approach to potentially hazardous materials commonly used in the
electronics and high-tech manufacturing," Timbercon notes on
its website. In these international terms, probably the single biggest
impetus to electronic industries in general to pay more attention to
environmental issues was the European Economic Community's promulgation
of the Reduction of Hazardous Substances regulations,
commonly known as ROHS. more>>
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From the Briefing Room
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Polycom Unveils HD Continuous
Presence Conferencing with Full Transcoding on RMX 2000
Polycom has announced an engineering breakthrough
for the recently released RMX 2000 realtime media conferencing platform
that will deliver true high-definition (HD) continuous presence
conferencing with full transcoding on the existing RMX 2000 media
processing module hardware. The feature, delivered with RMX 2000
Version 2.0 software, enables customers to combine videoconferencing
endpoints with different resolutions (HD, standard definition (SD) and
common intermediate format resolution (CIF)) within the same call,
showing multiple sites simultaneously (continuous presence) and
providing optimal resolution and call quality for each participant based
on the capabilities of their video system. Read on at Sound & Video Contractor's Briefing
Room.
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Application News
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NASA Upgrades with
Opticomm
NASA has chosen Opticomm fiber-optic communication systems in the
yearlong video surveillance system upgrade at its Wallops Island, Va.,
facility, which is around 90 miles from Norfolk, Va. This project will
allow NASA to have video surveillance along all its operating areas and
allow remote range control from various facilities. Once complete,
NASA will have an enhanced, more reliable and flexible surveillance
system. Using Opticomm fiber-optic systems, NASA will be able to use a
single fiber, rather than multiple fibers, to transmit audio, video, and
data in almost all cases. more>>
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Product News
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MRV Debuts High-definition
Video Transceivers
MRV
Communications, a leading provider of products and services for
out-of-band networking, WDM and optical transport, metro Ethernet,
fiber-optic components, 10GE, and other service-aware networking
products, has announced a new family of digital video fiber-optic
transceivers that allow transport of uncompressed high-definition video
over standard fiber-optic networks.The new Digital Video SFP family
enables postproduction facilities and rich-media studios to transport
HD-SDI video over dark fiber using networking gear from any vendor that
supports the small-form-factor pluggable (SFP) standard. One market
opportunity is to allow postproduction facilities to share uncompressed
baseband HD and SD video throughout a metropolitan area, a possibility
now under consideration at Broadway Video. more>>
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Corning Cable Systems Intros
UniCam Pretium Connector Family
Corning Cable Systems, part of Corning's
telecommunications segment, has expanded its field-installable UniCam
connector product line to include the UniCam Pretium-Performance
connectors.Corning Cable Systems' UniCam connectors are no-epoxy,
no-polish connectors that install quickly and easily in the field with a
single no-consumables tool kit. The new UniCam Pretium Tool Kit
contains a new handheld installation tool and a high-performance,
diamond-blade cleaver that virtually eliminates human variability from
installation, says Corning Cable Systems. more>>
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Broadata Communications Unveils
1800 Series to Construct Do-It-Yourself Optical Switches
Broadata Communications (BCI) introduces a new 1800
Series that can turn an electrical NxN matrix switch into an optical
matrix switch using optical-electrical and electrical-optical (OE and
EO) conversion. The 1800 model is a high-performance fiber-optic serial
digital data converter system, specifically designed to convert serial
digital optical signals into serial digital electrical signals, and vice
versa. As a result, the 1800 Series provides protocol-independent
digital OE and EO signal conversion to transform copper-based NxN matrix
electrical switches into fiber-based optical switches. more>>
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