NETIA joins the Axia Partners network

10 April, 2006, Cleveland Ohio, USA

Axia, the IP-Audio networking division of Telos Systems, announces the addition of NETIA to the growing list of Axia partners.

France-based NETIA ( www.netia.fr), a leading supplier of digital broadcast software, can now supply their clients with bundled, customized Axia IP-Audio networking components that allow any audio workstation PC running Windows® to send studio-grade audio directly to an Axia audio network from its network interface card - completely bypassing the need for PC soundcards.

" NETIA's partnership with Axia Audio opens up an entirely new world of control for radio broadcasters", said Xavier de Vynck, Vice President of NETIA. " The audio networking capabilities of the entire Axia product line, combined with NETIA's ability to provide users complete management of their processes - from capture to multichannel broadcasting - over a variety of devices, provides a truly scalable, end-to-end solution for radio broadcasters."

" Broadcasters capture, edit and play dozens, sometimes hundreds of audio streams every day", notes Axia president Michael Dosch. " Combining NETIA software solutions with the Axia IP-Audio driver will allow their clients to streamline this process significantly, reducing cost, time and effort."

Axia partners ( www.axiaaudio.com/partners/) offer software and hardware products that integrate directly with Axia IP-Audio networks. In addition to the soundcard-eliminating IP-Audio driver, the Axia system includes a family of microphone, analog line and AES/EBU "audio nodes" and DSP mix engines, as well as the popular Element Modular Control Surface and SmartSurface Studio Control Surface.
For more information, contact Clark Novak at Axia Audio, +1-216-241-7225.

Axia, a Telos company, builds network-based professional audio products for broadcast, production, sound-reinforcement and commercial audio applications. Products include digital audio routers, DSP mixers and processors and software for configuring, managing, and interfacing networked audio systems.

NETIA is a leading provider of software solutions for managing and broadcasting television and radio content. The company offers two ranges of audio ( Radio-Assist^TM) and video ( Manreo^TM) products designed to allow content holders to manage all of their processes, from capture to multichannel broadcasting - over terrestrial channels, the Internet, mobile devices, etc.

Netia's products are used worldwide in over 40 countries by over 200 prestigious customers, including RFI, Radio France, BBC, British Sky Broadcasting, ABC, TF1, Canal+, France Télévisions Interactive, e-TF1, LCI / Orange, RAI, Radio Vaticana, HRT, SRTC, RTM, VOV, MOI South Africa, Mediacorp, RTBF, Lifetime TV, SBS, RTL, FR3, and many others.

NETIA has its headquarters in the south of France, along with an American subsidiary and two country offices in Paris, and Rome.

AVID iNEWS

Building on a concept that originated in a garage in Massachusetts in 1987, Avid Technology, Inc. has become the world leader in digital media creation tools for film, video, audio, animation, games, and broadcast professionals over the past 17 years.

The NETIA/ iNEWS® joint solution provides journalists with the ability to access all scripts in the AVID iNEWS® newsroom computer system and all sound bites of NETIA's Radio-Assist from one application. In this seamless process, the radio newscaster can now edit sound bites on the production tool of Radio-Assist, drag and drop sound bites into his script text and prepare a complete story within minutes. When the story is ready to air, the journalist/newscaster may place it in the playlist of the broadcast preparation tool. Once the story is on air, the playlist can be viewed by the on-air tool of Radio-Assist showing the relevant sound bites and text.

Great interest for the AVID/NETIA joint solution has been expressed by several broadcasters including SBS Australia's National Multicultural Broadcaster, RTBF Radio Television Belge Francophone, ABC Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ect.

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ENPS

ENPS is the world's most popular new broadcast news production system. Used by journalists in more than 500 radio and television stations in 42 countries, ENPS fits the needs of demanding news environments by including powerful, easy-to-use features to give journalists the tools to focus on their craft and let the technology run in the background.

For broadcasters, ENPS is the ideal solution, featuring scalable, dependable architecture that can be tightly integrated with third party products.

The production tools of Radio-Assist integrate data from outside the system and blend it with other dispatch processing programs on the same interface. An NETIA/ENPS solution provides journalists with the ability to access all scripts in ENPS and all sound bites of Radio-Assist from the ActiveX window. In this process, the radio newscaster can edit sound bites on the production tool of Radio-Assist, drag and drop a pointer into his script text, and prepare a complete story within minutes.

When the story is ready to air, the journalist places it in the rundown. Once the story is on air, the on-air tool of Radio-Assist shows the relevant sound bites and text.

MACROMEDIA

To optimise Rich Media production, NETIA has developed HyperCast TemplateMaker, an extension of the famous Macromedia Dreamweaver.

Intended for graphic designers and webmasters, this extension can be used to define and modify at will publishing templates fully integrated in existing HTML pages with no specific knowledge of XML or XSL languages.

MICROSOFT WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER

With Microsoft Windows player, NETIA offers a large range of possibilities of streaming on the internet.

Manreo tools allow playing, synchronising, indexing and encoding media contents in Windows Media technologies.

REAL NETWORK

REAL is a main actor in the streaming process, therefore NETIA has been using REAL technologies for years. NETIA also helps optimising REAL technologies, testing new products, this way NETIA can adapt its own technologies by the mean time.

NETIA tools allow playing, synchronising, indexing and encoding media contents in REAL.