Credit: Scott Spillers, Salem Media Group
E2 Technical Services LLC is an integration services and support company founded by Edwin Bukont.
He describes it as a small firm offering a range of competencies for addressing the challenges of continued change in broadcasting and related industries.
“Our strengths are project management, systems design and integration, testing, AoIP, custom solutions and remote support,” he said. E2 also has experience in video and visual radio systems, which are of increasing use in radio.
“We often work with a client’s existing technical resources. This may not even be an engineer, rather the OM, IT and AV specialties, trades, other integrators, manufacturers and vendors.”
Principle certifications include NetGear, QSC/Q-SYS, Dante, Avixa CTS/ANP, SBE and Axia/Livewire.
E2 has offered services and support via remote access for more than a decade.
“To address travel-related concerns, we may look at a client’s systems via remote access tools and then generate certain deliverables including documentation and pre-engineering of equipment, making time on site more plug and play that design on-the-fly at customer’s expense.”
Added shipping costs are offset by savings in travel. E2 calls this “packaging the integration.” It also has a small AoIP sandbox test lab.
“We provide training for what we build and training in technologies, sometimes for specific product lines. Our service as an integrator has value in knowing what has to happen between technologies,” he said.
“Brand loyalty has been eclipsed by network compatibility, and no one vendor makes everything necessary to bring a project in on-time, on-scope, on-budget.”
Bukont said E2 tries to engineer beyond the wiring and tech. “As Telos founder Steve Church once put it, we want to be known not as engineers but as artists in the application of science.”
[Related: “Monitoring and Control Go Far Beyond the Transmitter”]
