Studio and Control Suites
In the studio and control suite environment space is at a premium. To provide dedicated support for the mixture of applications required in today's broadcast facilities, there have traditionally been two approaches. Either a variety of commercial enterprise workgroup servers or multiple desktop PCs have been used, taking up lots of space and causing a support headache over time because of the differences in systems caused by ongoing changes by commercial PC manufacturers.

Now using 1U and 4U, 19" rackmount application ready platforms, vendors can allow broadcasters to maximize revenue from the usable space in rack rooms, desks, consoles and studio / suite environments.

Revision control, flexibility and scalability in the products means lower cost of acquisition, lower cost of ownership and planned upgrades and maintenance strategies that can be revenue generating services, rather than a drain on valuable resources.

Space conscious servers can be used to provide dedicated support for single or multiple applications based in Intel or Sun Sparc hardware.
Entry-level and mid-range systems provide cost-effective processing based on Intel Pentium-III and Sun Sparc processors.

Most platforms will support multiple PCI, ISA or Compact PCI expansion boards with exceptional cooling and value add redundancy features like hot-swap power supplies and hot-swap SCA SCSI drives. All systems mount in standard 19" rack cabinets, which can also be purchased from I-Bus as part of your solution.

All platforms are made available with revision control so you can roll out products based on them, quote them to customers (even for long lead-time projects), and guarantee the systems won't change price or specification without your knowledge.

I-Bus offers customers the ability to customize the appearance (color / logo) and function (mechanical or electrical) of systems, UPS and power conditioning systems and rack cabinets. This allows customers to continue their corporate or product brand image and leverage (existing) advertising spend.

Please call us for more details.