Equipment Room Rack
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Studio Wall Box•
Studio Gantry / Lighting Grid•
Control Room Rack•
Outside Broadcast Truck•
Outside Broadcast Flight Case•
Variants
Units are available in the following
variants:
12 mic/line inputs and 4 line outputs
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(XLR)
24 mic/line inputs and 8 line outputs
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(XLR)
48 mic/line inputs and 16 line
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outputs (XLR)
32 AES inputs and 32 AES outputs
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(BNC)
4 SDI inputs with ‘thru’ connectors
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(rear panel connections)
The units connect to the network via an
Ethernet port on the rear of the unit. Each
unit has two identical ports to provide
network redundancy. All versions are
supplied with two RJ45 ports for copper
connections (1000BASE-T for distances
up to 90 m = 290 feet). In addition, plug-
in GBIC modules allow connections with
1000BASE-SX (for distances up to 550
m) and 1000BASE-LX (for distances up
to 10 km) are available.
All external connections to the units are
hot pluggable. If more than one media
type is detected, the system will switch to
fiber as its connection.
Hydra networks can include all versions
forms of modular and fixed format boxes,
though signals from SDI boxes can only
be patched to consoles using Bluefin DSP
systems or running software 1:36 or later.
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