Major International Broadcaster Deploys Rascular Technology For Router And Scheluded Event Control

Rascular has today announced that a major international broadcaster has deployed the company's Helm - and associated Helm Clockwork application - for router control and scheduled event functionality.

The broadcaster required a cost-effective system to create customised router control panels that could be deployed across its international operations. In addition, the broadcaster wanted a robust application to control the routers automatically at key times of the day on a repeat basis. For example, a channel in Arabia might take programming from a channel in the Far East from midnight to 5am and Helm Clockwork allows the broadcaster to achieve this without human intervention. It has used Helm's easy-to-use panel designer to create purpose-built control panels for the applications.

This project allows the broadcasters US and Singapore offices to be able to route video signals around the world with the minimum of effort. Using Helm has allowed the creation of customised panels to suit the needs of operators and their specific locations. Solutions from other manufacturers looked at by the broadcaster were either fixed in the way that they operated or were cost-prohibitive. The broadcaster has expressed how happy it is with both Rascular's technology and service.

Rascular's Helm provides the ultimate in flexible, user-defined on-air control from a single PC screen. It's a fully user-configurable, PC-based application that provides either mouse-driven or touchscreen control and monitoring of a wide range of essential broadcast equipment: branding devices, routers, video servers, VTRs, multi-image display processors and modular gear.

Clockwork - via the creation of a simple Helm panel - allows broadcasters and playout providers to schedule a huge range of different events using Helm's control of third-party hardware. These events could include switching a router, triggering a server to record an incoming feed, or the automated control of audio ingest - the list goes on.

Roddy Pratt, Technical Director with Rascular, said, We are very pleased that such a major broadcaster has recognised the power and flexibility of our technology. We aim to provide simple, technologically elegant solutions to the real-world problems that broadcasters - particularly operators at the sharp end - face every day.

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