AXON introduces NEW Compliance Recording System at NAB2009April 2nd, 2009

AXON has distilled its 20-year experience in broadcasting technology, plus a further six years of specific disk-recording development, into its new TRACS compliance recording system. All of the knowledge, and customer feedback, we have accumulated during these years has resulted in a completely new system offering greatly improved features and performance. To make compliance recording even more efficient and compact for large companies, AXON has launched an eight-input encoder. This 1RU unit has eight SDI inputs and no local storage. It encodes all inputs to MPEG2 or MPEG4 and stores material, via FTP, on third-party servers.

The new TRACS is built on custom-developed 1RU frames, which include redundant power supplies and three RAID 5-configured, front-removable hard disks. The newly designed front panel has a display that is controlled using a simple rotary dial. The display shows system-alerts, and you can adjust system-settings using the rotary dial. The new PCI-express card can perform simultaneously as an input/output card, making separate play-out units unnecessary. The new I/O card can also record up to 16 audio channels per input.

The GUI has been completely redesigned, making it easier to use, yet more powerful than before. It is now a ‘thick’ client application, enabling simultaneous access for multiple users, with free-of-charge download of the interface application and on-going updates. The monitoring view has been extended, and this is now a completely user-definable environment. Every user can look at its own tile-set of thumbnails, which are all scalable in size per tab. Monitoring, live and in real-time, of the input of any channel (including video, audio, Teletext and Closed Captioning content) across your entire network can be done. Search and play-out functions have been greatly improved, in terms of ease-of-use and functionality. TRACS now gives complete control over the video-playout. Start and end times of a clip can be set, and customized download lists can be build