MAYAH @ Formula 1 races

July 31, 2006. Hallbergmoos. MAYAH Centauri II Audio Gateway Codecs were chosen by RTL television to provide all technical and editorial communication during the live transmissions of all Formula One races in 2006 for German audience.

At all circuits including the season opening in Bahrain MAYAH Centauris transmit from RTL OB Vans at the race location to the broadcaster headquarters in Cologne, mostly over ISDN. In some cases like a circuit in Melbourne, Japanese races or European Grand Prix at the Nürburgring an IP-route over satellite was applied.

Operating Centauri II in the dual mono mode and using some appropriate switching, RTL has up to 12 bi-directional connections for each race. The signals are encoded with  MPEG Layer 2 or 3, depending on how critical the latency for one or another kind of communication can be.

Phonebook of the Centauri II with a profiles assigned to each entry allows quick and comfortable switching between different setups within seconds, via front panel, windows remote software or web-remote.

After the German Grand Prix in Hockenheim on July 30 the RTL TV team will follow the Formula 1 to Budapest (August 6), Istanbul (August 27), Monza (September 10),  Shanghai (October 1), Suzuka (October 8)  and Sao Paolo, where the last races of the season will take place on October 22. 

According to the broadcaster information, current audience of each Formula 1 transmission in Germany exceeds 9 million viewers.

More about MAYAH Centauri II Audio Gateway Codecs:

Centauri II can operate with mono, stereo or multichannel audio over IP, ISDN, X.21 / V.35 or E1 networks with virtually all coding algorithms: G.711, G.722, the whole MPEG range, including MPEG-4 HE AAC v2, Apt-X / Eapt-X, 4SB ADPCM, J.41, J.57 and others. Gateway, Automatic Backup, and Automatic Codec Recognition (Flashcast®) technologies belong to the basic configuration.

New options like MPEG TS with FEC, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), ASI interface, Dual Ethernet, redundant power supply  and others to be presented at IBC 2006 in Amsterdam broaden the possible application range even further.

About MAYAH Communications

The company's main objective is the development and distribution of innovative hiqh quality solutions for audio and audio/video communications in broadcast and corporate networks. Focus is given to standardized audio and video formats, such as MPEG-1, -2 and 4 as well as proprietary but accepted formats such as E/apt-X, ADPCM4SB and others.

MAYAH started its operations at the end of 1997 and is a privately held company with its headquarter in Hallbergmoos near Munich, an R&D department in Flensburg and a worldwide distribution network.

MAYAH stands in close relationship with and is licensing technology from FhG-IIS, Coding Technologies, IRT, APT and others. Its customers are in radio and TV broadcasting as well as telecommunications, studios and ISPs.

For further press information and product images please contact:

Daniel Adasinskiy
Press & Marketing Assistant
MAYAH Communications GmbH
Am Soeldnermoos 17
85399 Hallbergmoos, Germany

Tel.: +49 (0) 811 5517-49
Fax.: +49 (0) 811 5517-55
E-mail : daniel@mayah.com

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