The Bridge-IT II and Bridge-IT XTRA II codecs are now shipping. Tieline highlights their value as affordable IP codecs.
“They include a front panel with an OLED screen, keypad and menu navigation buttons, and deliver affordable, reliable and high-quality broadcast solutions for home studios, simple remotes, STLs, inter-studio links and multipoint audio distribution.”
Bridge-IT II, shown, and Bridge-IT XTRA II include native support for AES67, ST2110-30, ST2022-7 (XTRA II), Livewire+, Ravenna, AMWA NMOS IS-04 and IS-05, plus analog and AES3 XLR inputs.
They support two full-duplex mono connections, or full duplex stereo, with multiple Ethernet and AoIP ports, as well as support for cellular modems.
With native support for a range of AoIP protocols, either codec can operate as an edge network device and media converter.
The codecs integrate into AoIP infrastructure at the broadcast plant to deliver simple stream discovery and routing of AoIP audio sources and destinations. “This also facilitates ingesting or transmitting SIP trunks for communications and IFB feeds.”
Multi-unicasting and multicasting support allows one codec to replace thousands of dollars of additional codec equipment, reducing costs and energy consumption.
For STLs, the codecs feature auto failover to another connection, HTTP stream or audio file playback. The Bridge-IT XTRA II features dual internal power supplies, dual AoIP ports and dual Ethernet ports for additional redundancy.
SmartStream Plus redundant streaming and Fuse-IP data aggregation are included, along with automated failover and SNMP. The ToolBox HTML5 web-GUI and optional Cloud Codec Controller software provide real-time monitoring and remote management of connections.
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