Wichita State University has installed Utah Scientific equipment in its Media Resources Center (MRC) as part of a plant-wide upgrade to HD.
The upgrade allows the MRC to supply HD content to the entire campus, and also will allow it to serve the public via the local cable provider Cox Communications. The MRC operates WSU-TV, produces videos, provides media for classrooms and does some student training.
The MRC is now equipped with a UTAH-400 routing switcher V-64R frame loaded 32 x 32 for 3G HD/SD, an SC-400 control system with an MX-Lator Control Translation Unit, various panels and a Softpanel-2 GUI, and a TSG-490Y sync generator with changeover capability.
MX-Lator will enable the new router to interface with the school’s existing Utah Scientific analog router, which has been in service since 1986 and is still in use. The MRC uses the new equipment for TV production in an on-air environment, with the UTAH-400 router feeding the production switcher sources along with monitors in Wichita State’s newly outfitted production studio.
The UTAH-400 is designed to address the growing requirement for large switching systems with its ability to expand seamlessly from 8 x 8 to 1152 x 1152. The UTAH-400 is based on a new matrix architecture that greatly reduces the complexity of large systems, resulting in improvements in rack space and power requirements, as well as yielding cost reductions.
The SC-400 is the control system at the heart of a Utah Scientific routing switcher. In addition to controlling any of the current or legacy Utah Scientific routing switchers, the SC-400 also can provide interface capability to many third-party control and switching systems.
