Latin America. GatesAir has added the native Livewire + IP audio network to its Intraplex Ascent cloud transport platform.
Intraplex Ascent can now ingest and broadcast multiple channels of audio directly over IP without the need for conversion equipment, adding a new layer of scale and efficiency for radio stations that manage many digital audio channels between studios. Future support is planned for WheatNet-IP, further expanding ascent adoption within professional broadcast studios.
GatesAir introduced Intraplex Ascent as a next-generation audio-over-IP platform built to transport streaming and multimedia content at scale. The industry's first cloud transport platform was created with the convergence of information and transmission technology in mind, leveraging the common hardware available to reduce multi-channel contribution and distribution costs across many locations. GatesAir began shipping Intraplex Ascent in 2020 and has several systems in operation with broadcasters today, including a recent livewire+ capable deployment.
"GatesAir has successfully implemented Ascent with a national radio station that is sending 32 channels of audio between two major studios," said Keyur Parikh, gatesAir's vice president of engineering. "They are connecting directly to Livewire studios, providing reliable encoding and transport over public IP networks. Our high-density platform ensures seamless integration into Livewire networks without the need for audio converters. Our customers benefit from simplified integration and reduced capital costs."
As with all Intraplex transport applications, GatesAir's Dynamic Stream Splicing (DSS) software supports reliable transport over redundant networks and optimizes transmission integrity by protecting against jitters, packet losses, and network failures. Within Ascent, DSS software also supports mirroring SRT streams with video and audio over separate network paths, leveraging a single stream splice buffer for shock-free protection against errors and failures.
Parikh says that no matter how Ascent is used, broadcasters can rely on their trusted cloud platform to manage high-bandwidth, high-volume, high-value media content for any transport application and over any system architecture. This shows the strengths of Ascent as a software-defined system that drives the hardware scalability curve.
