SBE Chapter 40

On April 26th, 2011, the SBE Chapter 40 board sent a letter to the Napa Valley College Board of Trustees concerning the cancellation of the Broadcast Television Engineering Program.

The full letter is posted here.

For years there has been talk about starting an SBE student chapter at Napa Valley College. Napa Valley College has had a Broadcast Television Engineering Technology (BTET) program since at least 1985, and is an SBE-certified school, meaning that students who graduate from that two-year program with a B or better grade point average are entitled to receive the SBE Certified Broadcast Technologist (CBT) certification without taking the SBE CBT examination.

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Audio over IP for Radio and ENG

Daniel Loeffler - MAYAH Communications

The focus of the meeting is primarily targeted on the emerging audio over IP issues for audio codecs. Unlike ISDN, which was very simple and reliable, IP however, raises new issues for reliable and quality audio over IP transmission for radio and ENG. (ISDN is fading from the market gradually due to costs and availability). Factors that influence effective Audio over IP that will be discussed as follows:

• CODEC and compression algorithms: Latency, Quality and bit rates
• N/ACIP and SIP protocol for connectively to all codecs including Telos, Comrex,Tieline and others)
• Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), RTP and Voice-over-IP
• ADSL vs. SDSL QOS (Quality of Service) for internet transmission
• Remote audio over IP: 3G/4G, WLAN, BGAN.
• OPTIONAL: IP connect a MAYAH to your Telos, COMREX or other IP codecs supporting SIP at your facility (Using our Server)

We meet at Sinbad’s at Pier 2 in the City, as always. Wednesday March 30 is the date. No-Host Bar is from 11:30 am to 12:30 p.m., and lunch is at 12:30. Everything winds down at 2:00 p.m. Parking at Sinbad’s is valet, and please do plan to tip the attendants. Please R.S.V.P. to Paul Black’s voice-mail at 925-522-9342 BEFORE 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday the 26th.