Arqiva prepares for DSO with Christie monitor wall upgrade
Paul Milligan, January 14, 2010
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Coinciding with the move towards Digital Switch Over (DSO), which is due for completion in 2012, Arqiva needed to increase the Freeview network monitoring facilities at its Feltham Media Centre.
Arqiva is one of the founding members of Freeview and currently owns the licences for two of the three commercial multiplexes. Through these multiplexes Arqiva provides access for broadcasters to the Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) platform, including Freeview, by offering a fully managed service.
In order to keep pace with the all-digital world, the master control room facilities needed updating. According to Feltham Broadcast Operations Manager, Andrew O’Dell, the last upgrade had been carried out some years before. “By mid 2008 it was clear that we needed some more monitoring walls – but now finally we have new desking and a brand new wall to monitor the new activity.”
In fact Arqiva was able to power up a new state-of-the-art Christie monitor wall in January this year, having requisitioned a wing of the Master Control Room (MCR) previously functioning as a transmission suite. This fulfills the requirement for a 24/7 mission critical, fully redundant system.
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