Streaming and podcast specialist StreamGuys has brought to market a cloud service for enterprise-level audio contribution and distribution. And, it begins shipping as the 2024 NAB Show readies its April 13 opening in Las Vegas.
Introducing the Reflector EVO.
The second generation of the Reflector service, developed 14 years ago to help broadcasters move high-quality audio over the public internet, the Reflector EVO boasts uncompressed PCM signals with high bandwidth requirements. This makes for a strong alternative to satellite for syndicated program delivery, multi-studio networking and other distribution services with wide geographic dispersion, StreamGuys believes.
Developed in partnership with the Audio over IP experts at Barix, StreamGuys will lead all sales efforts and provide service hosting and 24/7 technical support for radio broadcasters, program syndicators and audio content creators that require a scalable, one-to-many cloud networking architecture for content delivery.
Barix has updated its encoding and decoding hardware for additional network resiliency, along with enabling fast switching between encoders and adding support for lossless audio compression. Barix’s new LX400 broadcast codec, also to be introduced at NAB (Booth C2348), offers OPUS audio support for customers that want the highest possible audio quality and bandwidth conservation, with support for constant and variable bitrates (6kb/s to 510kb/s). Customers can manually configure encoding quality and the audio delay level of the receiving decoder (between three and 30 seconds), with seamless communication between each device worldwide.
The LX400 devices also include standard Barix AoIP codec features such as selectable input gain, relay support and contact closures, the latter of which allows broadcast networks to provide affiliates with precisely timed triggers for local ad breaks over EVO. Speaking of affiliates, StreamGuys has improved alerting applications that allow networks to target alerts. This ensures that important notifications are prioritized for affected stations only, rather than being disseminated to all engineers in the network.
StreamGuys will demonstrate Reflector EVO at NAB Show 2024, where the company will share space at the ENCO booth (W1743).
With reporting by Brian Galante
