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WAPS in Akron Ohio, known as The Summit, has been processing their HD-2 and HD-3 services with Omnia ONEs for some time now. However, with the introduction of an innovative new HD-4 service called Rock and Recovery, an additional Omnia ONE will be put into service. "The HD-4 transmission will be at dramatically reduced bitrate" says WAPS Chief Engineer Jim Morgan. "Without the Sensus® capability of the Omnia ONE, I don't know if we would have been able to pull it off, because it is a music service and not just talk".

Sensus, an Omnia exclusive feature, has the ability to "sense" what must be done to a signal in order to best tailor it for output to a codec. As program content changes, it "rearranges the algorithms" to accomplish this goal. The uniqueness of the Sensus® technology makes it highly suitable not only for codec pre-conditioning (or provisioning), but also for a range of other highly specialized signal processing challenges. Omnia ONE features the same processing topology that made the original Omnia processors famous, but at a price which is remarkably affordable. The product is available for FM, AM or Multicast applications. The application itself can be changed with a simple software download.