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Finland’s Mikpoli Employs CWDM for More Efficient Infrastructure
WORCESTER, Mass. — March 21, 2006 — Telecast Fiber Systems today announced that Finland’s Mikkeli Polytechnic University, or Mikpoli, has installed a new media building with a fiber optic infrastructure that utilizes Telecast’s Teleport™ technology to reduce what ordinarily would require 11 fibers to only two. The installation, which also includes multiple CopperHead™, Viper™, Adder™, and Rattler™ systems from Telecast, was completed in the fall of 2005 and has been used for fiber-based outside productions of ice hockey games, classical music performances, and rally driving races.
“Eleven fibers would have been a tremendously expensive, labor-intensive installation for Mikpoli,” said Joe Commare, vice president of marketing and international sales for Telecast. “We engineered Teleport to lower cost and complexity in fixed and remote broadcast applications, and by decreasing the number of fibers by over 80 percent, it certainly accomplished this for Mikpoli.”
Teleport uses CWDM (coarse wavelength division multiplexing) technology to provide easy high-bandwidth multiplexing for as many as eight digital signals totaling up to 20 Gb/s in each direction on two single-mode fibers. Because any transport device in the 1300-nm and 1550-nm wavelength windows can be plugged into any channel of the Teleport, it eliminates the need for wavelength-specific devices. Teleport works by assigning each incoming signal to a specific CWDM wavelength. On the receive end, the signals are optically de-multiplexed and distributed to their corresponding receivers. This re-amplification of the optical signal ensures that broadcasters receive a new optical budget at the Teleport, allowing many different signal topographies.
Mikpoli’s fiber infrastructure called for the ability to transmit multiple video, audio, intercom, and data channels from any location on campus, including classrooms and the auditorium, to the studio in its new media building via Vipers. A second system provides support for three CopperHead-equipped Hitachi Z-3000 digital camcorders, 64 audio tie lines, and six channels of intercom through an Adder 322, all on two fibers via the Teleports. The installation was sold and integrated by Mediatrade Oy, a local fiber specialist and distributor of Telecast Fiber Systems products in Finland.
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About Mediatrade Oy
Mediatrade Oy, a reseller and systems integrator for the broadcast industry in Finland, also does business in Scandinavia and the Baltic states. The company’s expertise covers a wide range, all the way from shooting to the living room, including video production, playout, asset management, and final delivery. Mediatrade is recognized as a pioneer not afraid to implement new, innovative technology, and the company has a long track record of industry firsts in its home markets. For further information visit www.mediatrade.fi.
About Mikpoli
Mikpoli IT Centre, completed in 2005, gathers together the information and media technology-related research, product development, teaching, and business. The emphasis is focused on diverse IT and media technology applications for the development of food technology, wood technology, environmental technology, materials technology, tourism, and cultural business. Mikpoli opens the possibilities for even a smaller company to have access to considerable resources; multimedia and programming classes, studios, laboratories, and a digital auditorium are designed for the use of companies, too. Mikpoli also offers assistance for preparation, financial arrangements, launch, and management of projects related to the field of information and media technology or its applications. Visit www.mikpoli.fi for further information.
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