On Air Systems awarded £1.5m Slovenian contract

London based On-Air Systems have won a £1.5 million contract to supply a complete broadcast transmission system to ASCO in Slovenia.
The system will form the basis of a multi-channel broadcast playout and satellite uplink centre.
Based in Ljubljana, ASCO have purchased eight On-Air Capture servers and ten On-Air Studios (including two for system redundancy). All the workstations are integrated into a storage area network allowing online access to the shared central storage from any On-Air Studio.
On-Air's open architecture allows ASCO's clients to access the system via the internet in order to schedule their programme archive (tape and DVD), creating and updating their channel playlists.
ASCO managing director Andrej Lovsin outlined his reasons for choosing On-Air VANity as the core of the new system: "The On-Air Systems product range combines the flexibility of being software-based with the cost-efficiency of using a PC platform. We made a careful study of Connexion's satellite playout service centre in London, which uses On-Air VANity round the clock, every day of the year. The combination of networked On-Air Systems workstations running On-Air range of software modules left the competition out of sight; it was a clear choice and one that was ready for immediate delivery."
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