Orban Collaborates with Sage on Virtualized EAS Technology Demo

Sage Alerting Systems (SAS), in cooperation with Orban Labs and DNAV, will demonstrate virtualized Emergency Alert System (EAS) alerting at the Orban Labs booth C1459 at NAB. This demonstration is intended to show real-world applications for virtualized EAS and shows a complete transmission chain flow featuring a pair of OPTIMOD 5950 HD, with analog FM plus HD-1, HD-2, HD-3 and HD-4 feeding an exporter/exporter and exciter into a dummy load.

The demonstration emphasizes a minimal hardware approach to EAS alerting. The Sage technology uses next-generation EAS software, hosted on an industrial PC the size of a deck of cards. Using only power and LAN connections, Orban and Sage will demonstrate the flow of normal audio plus EAS alerts. Sage will use AES-67 for audio output and AAC-LC streams for live EAS audio input, with direct control of an SAS Transmission Router managed via the Sage software. During the demonstration, live EAS “alerts” will be generated from the SAS booth.

“Customers have been asking for this type of technology for some time, with an easy way to integrate EAS alerts into the audio chain without lots of extra hardware and wiring,” said Mike Pappas, Orban Labs VP of Sales. “Although this technology has not yet received final approval for deployment, it’s well on its way. We think it’s an exciting development for broadcasters and are looking forward to demonstrating it at NAB.”

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