College Adds Consoles, Networking for Collaboration

Ithaca, NY (May 15, 2023)—Ithaca College’s Roy H. Park School of Communications has put in two SSL System T S300 digital broadcast audio consoles, one in every of its student-run, high-definition, multi-camera tv studios.

The SSL System T platform was chosen largely for its native integration of Dante, says Nigel Martin, director, technical operations at Park School of Communications. “We wished to go together with Dante for audio-over-IP to offer us extra flexibility, particularly as there’s a serious push for us to collaborate with different teams on campus. We have a lot of the infrastructure for us to attach wherever on campus. It has considerably simplified the quantity of cabling that we’ve needed to run.”

The System T S300 consoles are put in in two similar management rooms on the studios of Ithaca College Television (ICTV), which has been broadcasting since 1958 and is believed to be the world’s oldest student-operated faculty tv channel. ICTV has acquired many awards throughout its years in operation, together with the primary College Emmy Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for its information program, Newswatch.

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​The two System T consoles are every paired with a 32-channel SB 32.24 Stagebox and an SSL Net I/O SDI field that gives embedding and de-embedding of audio indicators with bridging to Dante and MADI. “Prior to utilizing Dante, we’d have to hold all the pieces wherever we wanted to go; now we simply carry endpoints after which we will ship all the pieces again to our Master Control,” Martin says. The college deploys a wide range of Dante-enabled endpoints and Dante soundcards wherever productions want them. “Then we simply pull all the pieces into the System T boards.”

Typically, the 2 audio management rooms are utilized by college for instructing through the day. Then, at nights and through weekends, college students produce a wide range of programming, together with sports activities, leisure, sport reveals and scripted leisure—as many as 28 reveals per semester.

​“There’s a information present that’s produced twice every week after which there are a bunch of different reveals,” he continues. “We cowl all our on-campus sports activities and it’s streamed reside on the ictv.org web site. And our native Charter Communications cable system has given us the general public entry schooling channel,” which has about 26,000 native space subscribers.