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Broadcast Engineering: Sex and the Interactive TV

Broadcast Engineering: Grass Valley Group Intros Aqua Internet Encoder

WBE Online: Conference on Financial News Broadcasting Announced

WBE Online: BIFS Technologies Intros TV+ Internet Wireless

BE Radio: C-5 Replacement with GE-8 Successful

BE Radio: Hams Respond to Seattle Earthquake

DTV Professional: Media 100 Ships CineStream Authoring Solution

DTV Professional: 2NetFX and Avolo Take Streaming HDTV-Over-IP To the Skies at NAB

Systems Design Showcase: GWNS’ Digital Server System
by Jonathan Perkes
Group W Network Services (GWNS) provides major broadcast, cable and corporate clients with full-service program origination production and transmission, handling more than 7000 hours of traffic each week from its facilities in Connecticut, Minnesota and Singapore. GWNS introduced a second-generation video file server system -- fully protected and redundant across two unique facilities -- to provide greatly improved reliability for these multiple discrete network feeds. more

Contract Engineering: Bookkeeping basics
By Mark Krieger
While it may be an article of faith that broadcast engineers tend to be analytical, does it follow that we are naturals when it comes to business principles? Of course not, because business sense isn’t a sense at all. It is a skillset that has to be learned, refined and progressively updated. Unfortunately, most broadcast engineers don’t have the benefit of a background in business education. In fact, many of us have little or no business experience on the day we first decide to hang up the “for hire” sign. more

Storage area networks: A closer look
By Brad Gilmore
Storage area networks (SANs) allow multiple processors to share a pool of common storage. It is a powerful solution for sharing content across a homogeneous system. A SAN is a pool of virtual storage, which is treated by a device as if all the storage were local. SANs can be comprised of local storage on several machines, centralized storage or a combination of both. more

Networks - About wireless WANs
By Kevin McNamara
Wireless LANs have been around for a few years, but a lack of standards required that only components from the same manufacturer could be used. Today, we have two standards, Wi-Fi and Home RF; a third standard, Bluetooth, is expected to hit the market in early 2002. In order to understand this technology better, let’s discuss the fundamentals behind it. more

NAB 2001 Preview
Going to NAB in Las Vegas this year? Here's a growing list of some of the companies you'll see, along with previews of their new products that will be on display. Also, find out about the special exhibit areas at NAB. more

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