STAR-TWO G1 Pro Audio Receiver
Professional distribution of audio programming over satellite, IP and ASI radio broadcasting networks.
Reliable
High availability radio receiver with no moving parts
Cost-effective
Streamlined feature set with industry-standard professional outputs
Flexible Interfaces
Available in single or dual channel, with optional SD card for backup audio as well as pre-emphasis and limiter functions
Overview
Radio network operators need to be sure that the infrastructure investments they make can be relied upon to support their business for many years to come. Our thirty year history in professional radio demonstrates both IDC’s ability to engineer long lasting, reliable audio receiver products, and our proud commitment to this market. Continuing in this long tradition, IDC has designed the STAR-TWO G1 Pro Audio to support our customers' satellite distribution needs well in to the future. The STAR-TWO G1 Pro Audio receiver range is designed specifically for the distribution of audio programming over satellite to radio broadcasting networks.
STAR-TWO G1 Pro Audio is an ultra high reliability, professional satellite receiver designed specifically for radio distribution applications. Based around the latest DVB satellite modulation and MPEG audio compression standards, the STAR-TWO G1 highly integrated, low power, fanless architecture is designed to maximize network uptime.
STAR supports ultra high efficiency, standards-based DVB-S2 as well as DVB-S satellite demodulation. Both MCPC and SCPC delivery modes are supported, down to rates as low as 128 kBaud.
STAR-TWO G1 is available in 1 and 2 decoder configurations
Supporting multiple decoders in one chassis reduces cost for radio networks delivering more than one channel to each transmitter site.
IDC has designed the STAR-TWO G1 to be the modern replacement to its market-leading ABR platform, which is still being used to deliver content to tens of thousands of transmitter sites around the world. STAR-TWO G1 updates the ABR’s twenty year old satellite modulation and audio compression technologies with modern, open standard alternatives, while retaining the ABR’s legendary levels of reliability. It also improves on the ABR’s density, offering up to three stereo channels per rack unit instead of one.
Features & Benefits
- Standards-Based
- High Availability, Low Power, Fanless Operation
- DVB-S/S2 Demodulation with optional Low Symbol Rate support
- MPEG Audio Decoding - Layer 3 and optional AAC support
- Up to 2 Audio Decoders per 1 RU Device
- Transport Stream over IP Input
- Analog and Digital Audio Outputs
- Async Data Outputs
- General purpose (up to 8 per unit)
- Headphone Jack
- Program Backup - stored file playout on loss of satellite signal
- Programmable Alarms via relays or SNMP messages
- In-Band NMS Control from headend
- Web-Browser Interface for local or remote control over IP networks
MISTiQ
Cloud software for multipoint IP radio distribution over managed and unmanaged (Internet) IP networks.
ENC6000 Audio Encoder
A modular software architecture and a flexible license model form the basis of three ENC6000 variants (Appliance, Server, Virtual Machine) for use in audio contribution and audio distribution applications.
ENC7000 Audio Encoder
MPEG-4 AAC-LC, HE-AAC v1/v2, and MPEG-1 Layer 2 encoding with standard bit rates and sample rates for improved IP audio delivery.
Production Manager
Management of digital program insertion functions in IDC video and radio product lines.
Net Manager
A highly reliable network management system designed to control satellite receivers using in-band communications.
Event Manager
Injects frame accurate queues into audio stream required for commercial insertion; triggers stored program playback, channel changes & more.