By selecting Rohde & Schwarz technology, the Belgian Ministry of Defense will receive a state-of-the-art, future-ready VCS solution. The fully EUROCAE ED-137 compliant R&S VCS-4G system represents the first step in migrating the customer to next-generation communications solutions. The implementation of IP-based R&S VCS-4G systems for the RAPCON program is the starting point for replacing legacy analog lines with the latest IP technology for both voice and data services such as meteorological systems.
Voice over IP (VoIP) in line with EUROCAE ED-137 is the upcoming communications technology for ATC, replacing the obsolete TDM-based systems. The fully IP-based R&S VCS-4G voice communications system adheres to this standard. Rohde & Schwarz added the R&S VCS-4G state-of-the-art solution to its ATC portfolio in the spring of 2011. The R&S VCS-4G features a fully redundant design with a large number of interfaces to external systems such as a voice recording system and telephone lines. Due to its unique architecture, the system is scalable and can be easily expanded without replacing existing equipment. R&S VCS-4G features next-generation ATC requirements such as asset sharing, facility consolidation, geographical distribution and a virtual center, effectively supporting the efficiency and safety objectives of global aviation.
Additionally, Gulf Film, in a deal concluded at this year's CABSAT in Dubai, has adopted CLIPSTER®, Rohde & Schwarz DVS's flagship DI workstation. For the first time, CLIPSTER® will be responsible for creating Digital Cinema Packages (DCPs) in the Middle East.
As CLIPSTER® can perform high-speed DCI Mastering processes, Gulf Film can now generate and process DCPs faster and more efficiently than ever. In doing so, all DI steps, which are typically spread across multiple products, can be created in one system. Thanks to the direct preview and test option, CLIPSTER® allows users to directly view and check DCPs created either on the system itself or on other systems. The DI workstation also lets professionals at Gulf Film edit films online, convert them into various output formats and perform color corrections. At the same time, CLIPSTER® handles all resolutions, whether SD, HD, 2K or 4K.
On top of this decisive flexibility, Gulf Film also benefits from CLIPSTER’s extremely fast render pipeline that considerably accelerates their complex decoding and encoding steps. The DCI validation tool makes DCI workflows more user-friendly. CLIPSTER® features extensive, easy-to-use DCP test functions enabling DCPs not only to be verified to ensure they comply with all DCI standards, but also to see if they can be played back on popular DCI players. Furthermore, the Gulf Film editors can make selective changes to every DCP validation parameter in CLIPSTER® to suit their respective test procedures.
Thanks to DVS’s own hardware processing, the creation of the final DCPs that, as a standard, are encoded as JPEG2000 files is carried out in double real-time speed. The built-in KDM management and spec validation tools ensure that DCPs sent across the country or across the world will provide reliable playback and faithful picture reproduction.