Beijing TV employs Clear-Com as communications backbone

Beijing, China ─ Clear-Com has announced that Beijing Television (BTV), a government-owned television network in the People’s Republic of China, has selected its Eclipse-Median digital matrix and FreeSpeak digital wireless intercom systems to bridge communications between its new facility and older five-studio complex. The Chinese broadcaster has also purchased an Eclipse-PiCo digital matrix intercom and V-Series intercom panels for its HD 3D OB vehicle.

The 48-port Clear-Com Eclipse-Median system frame can easily integrate via Ethernet with the other Clear-Com equipments as well as the third-party products used by BTV. This makes it simpler to update the existing intercom system and build a sub-core intercom matrix based on Clear-Com in the older five-studio building.

BTV can also easily link the new Eclipse-Median in the older building with the 80-channel Eclipse-Median Matrix system frame already in use at the new facility. Since BTV personnel can control both systems from the new site, they are able to manage communications for the broadcaster’s 10 television and satellite channels from one central location.

Not only can Clear-Com’s Eclipse digital matrix intercoms integrate with digital wireless beltpacks and IP-based intercoms, but they provide a flexible and scalable foundation for point-to-point and group-based multi-connections. The Eclipse systems can support as few as 36 on a single matrix frame or as many as 3,120 user connections on a networked system platform.

Complimenting Eclipse are the V-Series intercom user control panels which offer cutting-edge Digital Signal Processing, 10-character display, “Listen Again” technology and native IP technology.

FreeSpeak operates within the license-free 1.88GHz-1.9GHz-frequency band, away from the crowded frequency where other wireless devices operate. It combines DECT and wireless auto-roaming technologies to allow users to move freely without losing the communication connection. It can operate as a standalone system or as an integrated solution.