Voice of America - IDAPS radio production and
broadcast network system
The HA Design team designed a fully digital system
capable of instantaneous access of
any program material required from anywhere
on the network for the VOA (Voice of
America), which encompasses 45+
language services broadcasting daily
multi-lingual news content
worldwide.
We worked with Dalet Digital Media
Systems to provide VOA with a
complete digital audio system for
all VOA broadcasters. teh new
solution replaced all
reel-to-reel editing and other
manual operations thus creating new
workflow standards for the VOA staff.
VOA
encompasses
forty-three (43) studios serving
forty-seven (47) different language
services. Each of these services
represents an individual broadcast
channel. In twenty-six (26) of the
language areas there are additional
smaller studio areas for
uncomplicated mixing and dubbing.
VOA has a
central recording facility to aid
the language services which have
numerous automated playback units
along with many duplication and
recording devices.
Specified an
automation system serving Master
Control for 150 channels. This
allows the operators greater ease of
monitoring and control of the VOA
channels worldwide.
IDAPS consists
of 2000 workstations and various
playout and record units. More than
10 Clustered Audio Servers
consisting of IBM Netfinity 7000
class servers running in cluster
mode with 6 TB of disk storage on
the system, Storagetek Robotic
archiving units, and 2600 class JVC
jukeboxes for CD playback.
