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number and quality of projects that we are handling here.” he adds. Pecot’s goals right now include, among other things, to understand some specifics of this region. A better understanding of the market in terms of its specific requirements will be his primary focus, he says. “We’ll be working closely with our customers in the region to understand their requirements, suggestions and feedback. I intend to take these back ideas to the company and the designers to come up with optimum solutions for the region. We don’t just sell products; we also maintain them and train personnel to operate them, which is the idea for establishing the academy.” Depending on the programme, the courses vary from one day to several days as each of the courses is customised to individual needs. The trainers are Harris-qualified specialists who have been trained and certified by Harris. “We bring the customer to the facility, both new and existing ones. Those who want to brush up their knowledge or get an introduction to newly introduced solutions are some of the potential candidates. We have provision to train freelancers as well. Once we are more settled, we will publish a schedule and those interested may enroll,” explains Pecot. “We have ample resources here. Should we need additional trainers, we may call in people from other branches of Harris. We have a selfsufficient office that is fully equipped to handle projects of any scale.” The demo facility also includes a range of signal processing applications including loudness management as well as the latest in routing systems and monitoring solutions, master control switching, and encoding and networking. Servers, editing, graphics and channel branding solutions as well as over-theair DVB-T2 transmission are part of the chain right through to the set-top-box.
Clockwise from top: Richard Scott, Senior Vice President for Global Sales and Service at Harris Broadcast; the Harris MESA team; and a demonstaration in progress at Harris MESA Academy.
Key kit
IN THE DEMO ROOM: * Broadcast Master – sales, traffic and billing system * Invenio - digital asset management (capture, motion, insight) * Velocity Editing – XNG, ESX, PRX * QUIC – media analysis * Nexio AMP 3801 – video servers * Nexio Volt 2 – video servers * Farad – storage solutions * G8 Inscriber – graphics branding * Icon Master - master control switcher * Platinum Router * HView – multiviewer * X85 – signal processing * ADC Automation V12 * Selenio – networking, encoding, and media convergence * MSA – MPEG analyser * Versio – integrated channel playout
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