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Headline	NTP Completes New Audio Router Contract For Radio Nacional De España
Article	NTP Technology has completed delivery of a digital audio switching and routing system for Spanish state broadcaster Radio Nacional de España (RNE). 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. 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. Ràdio 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.
Company	NTP
Date Published	1/7/2009