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By cableunion, January 27, 2012 6:45 pm

Belden announced the launch of its outdoor and direct burial analog audio, plenum jacketed and plenum Banana Peel snake cable lines.

It was revealed in a release that the new Brilliance Audio Snake Cables feature a robust construction which also has superior flexibility making it highly suitable for indoor and outdoor environmental conditions.

Belden, specializing in signal transmission solutions for mission-critical applications, provides the Brilliance Audio Snake Cables for in-the-field and permanent installation to connect multiple channels in low-level (microphone) and high-level componentry.

The applications where they can be used include console board equipment for recording, post production and sound system installations, said officials.

Most useful where ruggedness is imperative, the product line includes three cable series, namely waterblocked, plenum, and Banana Peel constructions. Featuring various benefits the cable series sports a foil shield that is bonded to the jacket. This construction enables them to maintain high performance with the ease of termination.

The waterblocked product series, used in direct burial and suitable for outdoor installations, features six standard product codes with constructions ranging from 1 to 12 pairs. This makes the product more advantageous when compared to gel installations.

Belden officials added that the plenum product series offers nine product codes including the recent additions of 4, 6, 8 and 12-pair constructions with an overall jacket. No heat shrink is needed as the pairs are individually jacketed facilitating field termination.

The patented Banana Peel construction offers 2, 4, and 6-pair audio snake cables forming easy-to-install composite cables. The component cables are bundled and affixed to a center spline, so overall jacket is not required. Easy to install, the Banana Peel design needs less effort and time compared to traditional jacketed products.

Belden announced the roll out of the GarrettCom brand’s enhanced IEC (News – Alert) 61850-compatible, substation-hardened managed switches targeted for data-intensive power utility applications such as Smart Grid. The Magnum 10KG Managed Switches offer up to eight Gb ports to support data-intensive Smart Grid applications. Magnum is a trademarked product line of Belden’s GarrettCom (News – Alert) brand.

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Shamila Janakiraman is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Shamila’s articles, please visit her columnist page.

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By admin, December 17, 2011 6:36 am

Wondering what to get him/her for Xmas? Read on.

337 Summit HD video camera sleet goggles, Liquid Image, $430

For a snowboard or skier in your life who has everything, how about goggles that double as a HD video camera? The Summit Series 1080p googles have a 136-degree, wide-angle lens to constraint an overwhelming perspective as we rocket down a slopes. It has hands-free operation and both camera and video mode. It annals 1080p video during 30 frames per second though it also has a high-action mode to fire 720p during 60 frames per second. Storage is on a micro SD/SDHC label adult to 32 gigabytes and a goggles come with a 4 GB card. It comes with a USB wire for downloading or we can download around a micro SD card. The newly expelled 337 Summit goggles are accessible online in Canada from amazon.ca. liquidimageco.com.

iDigiTip, Objects of Perfection, $20

I’m constantly misdialing on my BlackBerry given we don’t have prolonged fingernails to daub a small keys. Apparently I’m not a usually one who dials Australia when we try to call someone opposite town. Anastasia Durden, co-owner with her father Trentis Durden of Objects of Perfection, beheld her father and others had a identical problem with their smartphones and came adult with a thought of a iDigiTip, a small device that’s a bit like a coop tip for your fingers. It works with a small keys on dungeon phones, hold screens, tablets and other devices.idigitip.com

BlueMic Snowball USB Microphone, from $110

I’m sleepy of recording voiceovers for videos that sound like I’m articulate from a bottom of a barrel, so we picked adult this a Snowball microphone on sale this week. The disproportion in peculiarity is positively adequate to clear a $69 sale price. And for people who use their computers for podcasting or formulating music, it’s value a full price. An iOS 4.3 refurbish joined with Apple’s camera tie pack lets we use a Snowball mic with your iPad amd recording apps like GarageBand. It also works with PCs with Windows 7, Windows Vista and XP Home or Professional Edition. You can get USB mics for your mechanism for as small as $20 or even reduction though if sound peculiarity is critical to you, cruise investing in a mic that will broach a difference. bluemic.com

Ion Profile Pro LP USB Turntable, ION Audio, $130

Another object for a vinyl LP holdout is fortuitously on sale this week during Future Shop for $80 nonetheless we can find it during varying prices during other retailers. Many old-school audiophiles have prolonged given done a acclimatisation to digital though for those who haven’t, this small USB turntable is a good approach to modify aged vinyl annals into MP3s so we can play them on your computer, iPod or other MP3 player. It’s block and play, so even if you’re new to a digital age, it’s easy to bond this to your mechanism and get it adult and running. It also works with an iPad or iPad 2 with an Apple iPad USB adapter. ionaudio.com

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By admin, December 15, 2011 10:21 am

A while behind we reported on Griffin’sGuitarConnect Pro that fundamentally authorised guitarists/bassists to bond their instruments directly into a iPad. Well when you’re finished laying down a guitar marks for your strain and it’s time to supplement vocals, instead of relying on a iPad’s microphone, how about holding a demeanour during Marshall Electronics’ MXL Tempo USB microphone instead?

As a name implies, a MXL Tempo is USB formed and will be concordant with both PCs and Macs, nonetheless here’s a kicker – if we occur to have Apple’s Camera Connector Kit, we will be means to block a MXL Tempo microphone directly into a iPad. As a microphone was designed privately for vocals, i.e. podcasting and chatting, don’t design to be means to mic adult your drumset or amplifier with these.

The MXL Tempo facilities a magnitude operation of 40Hz to 18kHz with a attraction of -47dB (re 1 v/Pa). It will come with a mini-mic stand, a tough mountain adapter, an A-to-B USB wire and will underline a no-latency headphone jack for monitoring purposes. If you’re meddlesome in picking adult a MXL Tempo USB microphone, they are accessible from a company’swebsite for $79.95 each.

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By admin, December 13, 2011 1:48 pm

BEAVERTON, Ore., Dec 08, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
The USB-IF currently announced a recover of a USB-IF Audio/Video Device
Class Specification. The selection supports a send of A/V data
over USB to a far-reaching accumulation of A/V devices, including dungeon phones,
cameras, pico projectors, webcams, vast HD displays and TVs. The A/V
Device Class Definition enables manufacturers of tiny form factor
inclination to rise single-cable devices, that yield both energy and
arrangement over one USB cable.

“The USB-IF is anxious to have combined a USB Audio/Visual Device Class
Definition to a strong set of specifications,” pronounced Jeff Ravencraft,
USB-IF President COO. “This serve further establishes USB as an
all-inclusive, extensive resolution for manufacturers and consumers,
while progressing a affordability and ease-of-use that have done USB
so successful. Continued USB advancements along with a technology’s
scalability pave a highway forward for USB.”

USB provides consumers with an affordable, back concordant solution
that reserve not usually information transfer, though also concurrently delivers
seamless audio/video capabilities, power, mass storage and more. In
comparison, other technologies are designed usually for a primary
application. For example, many specifications are designed to just
bond mobile phones and unstable inclination to HDTVs and displays.
Additionally, a USB chartering requirement for a new Audio/Video
Device Class Specification is on a reciprocal, zero-royalty basis. USB
brings to marketplace a finish solution, providing consumers with a myriad
of use cases.

For some-more information on USB and a A/V Device Class Definition, please
visit
usb.org .

About a USB-IF

The non-profit USB Implementers Forum, Inc. was shaped to yield a
support classification and forum for a enrichment and adoption of USB
technology. The USB-IF facilitates a growth of high-quality
concordant USB inclination by a trademark and correspondence program, and
promotes a advantages of USB and a peculiarity of products that have
upheld correspondence testing. Further information, including postings of
a many new product and record announcements, is accessible by
visiting a USB-IF website at
usb.org .

SOURCE: USB Implementers Forum, Inc.

        USB-IF PR
        Mary Slonske, +1 503-619-5225
        press@usb.org

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By admin, November 23, 2011 2:24 am

MONTREAL, QUEBEC, Nov 22, 2011 (MARKETWIRE around COMTEX) –
Cogeco Cable Inc.

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(“Cogeco Cable”) currently announced that
it renewed a credit agreement for a $750 million credit facility,
with an choice to boost to a sum volume of adult to $1 billion,
subject to lenders’ participation, in a form of a five-year Term
Revolving Facility.

The renewed Term Revolving Facility was organised by a organisation of
financial institutions led by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and
Bank of Montreal. The renewed Term Revolving Facility will mature on
November 22, 2016, though might be extended by additional one-year periods
on an annual basis, theme to lenders’ approval. The Term Revolving
Facility is indirectly cumulative by a initial priority bound and floating
charge on almost all benefaction and destiny genuine and personal
property and endeavour of each inlet and kind of a Corporation
and certain of a subsidiaries, and provides for certain permitted
encumbrances, including purchased income obligations, existent funded
obligations and charges postulated by any auxiliary before to a date
when it becomes a subsidiary, theme to a limit amount.

“The fact that Cogeco Cable renewed this trickery for a five-year
period highlights a banking syndicate’s support for a strategy,
and demonstrates a sound financial position,” pronounced Louis Audet,
President and CEO of Cogeco Cable.

The renewed Term Revolving Facility extends Cogeco Cable’s borrowing
flexibility and provides continued liquidity within a clever capital
structure. The trickery will be used for ubiquitous corporate purposes
and to promote expansion opportunities.

ABOUT COGECO CABLE

Cogeco Cable (
cogeco.ca ) is a telecommunications house and
is a second largest hybrid twine coaxial wire user in Ontario,
Quebec and Portugal. Through a two-way broadband wire networks,
Cogeco Cable provides a residential business with Audio, Analogue
and Digital Television, as good as HSI and Telephony services. Cogeco
Cable also provides to a blurb customers, by its
subsidiary Cogeco Data Services, information networking, e-business
applications, video conferencing, hosting services, Ethernet, private
line, VoIP, HSI access, information storage, information security, co-location
services, managed IT services, cloud services and other advanced
communication solutions. Cogeco Cable’s subordinate voting shares are
listed on a Toronto Stock Exchange

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By admin, November 18, 2011 6:56 pm

Cogeco Cable Once Again Honoured for Customer Service by Service Quality Measurement Group

MONTREAL, QUEBEC, Nov 18, 2011 (Marketwire around COMTEX) –
Editors Note: A print for this recover will be accessible on a Canadian Press design handle around Marketwire.

For a fourth time in 5 years, final night Cogeco Cable and a call centres perceived a Highest Customer Satisfaction by Industry Award for Telecommunications/TV during a 2011 Service Quality Measurement Group (SQM) North American call centre awards of value presentation.

“We’re anxious to win this endowment again, generally after such a bustling year. Maintaining high opening year in, year out takes some-more than tough work. It takes being open, penetrating to help, and committed to requesting a “How can we assistance you” signature to each action,” pronounced Louise St-Pierre, Senior Vice President, Residential Services.

“At Cogeco Cable, joining to use is one of a core values. Receiving this endowment is expressive explanation of a care, courtesy and frankness we put into a relations with a business and confirms that a patron use is predominant in a industry,” she added.

Cogeco Cable’s call centres offer some-more than 992,000 people each year in Quebec and Ontario by write and email, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They were benchmarked by SQM, an general organisation that benchmarks and rates call centres in opposite sectors, to 450 call centres in North America formed on a consult carried out with 800 customers.

This prestigious endowment is Cogeco Cable’s third win for tumble 2011. Previously, on Oct 6, a Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) celebrated Cogeco Cable with dual Mark awards for a best marketing-communications campaigns in North America. The new “How can we assistance you” debate won Silver for Acquisition and Upgrade Marketing, and Bronze for Brand Image and Positioning.

ABOUT COGECO CABLE

Cogeco Cable (cogeco.ca) is a telecommunications house and is a second largest hybrid twine coaxial wire user in Ontario, Quebec and Portugal. Through a two-way broadband wire networks, Cogeco Cable provides a residential business with Audio, Analogue and Digital Television, as good as HSI and Telephony services. Cogeco Cable also provides to a blurb customers, by a auxiliary Cogeco Data Services, information networking, e-business applications, video conferencing, hosting services, Ethernet, private line, VoIP, HSI access, information storage, information security, co-location services, managed IT services, cloud services and other modernized communication solutions. Cogeco Cable’s subordinate voting shares are listed on a Toronto Stock Exchange .

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SOURCE: Cogeco Cable Inc.

Catherine Pleau
Advisor, Corporate Communications
(514) 764-4762

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By admin, November 16, 2011 3:53 pm

BEAVERTON, OR, Nov 16, 2011 (MARKETWIRE around COMTEX) –
Tektronix, a marketplace personality in promote video test, monitoring
and research solutions, currently announced that company’s flagship
Sentry(R) digital calm guard has been comparison by Cogeco Cable,
Canada’s fourth largest wire operator, to assistance safeguard their video
services are delivered with well-developed quality.

After delicately evaluating several rival solutions, Cogeco
Cable comparison Sentry for a extensive proceed to ensuring its
subscribers consistently suffer a best probable observation experience.
Sentry’s modernized monitoring capabilities capacitate a early detection
and diagnosis of video and audio errors, that can assistance operators fix
the underlying issues, and in many cases forestall dear in-home
service appointments.

Cogeco Cable will muster Sentry’s modernized Quality of Experience
(QoE) and Perceptive Video Quality (PVQ) modules. With QoE, Sentry
does a full decode of any MPEG parcel looking for constructional errors
that means design and audio impairments. Each spoil is scored
based on a severity, holding into comment a frequency, duration
and position on viewers’ screens of any impairment. In further to
QoE, Sentry’s PVQ procedure detects design blockiness and other
artifacts caused by over-compression regulating an eMOS (effective Mean
Opinion Score) formed scoring algorithm. Sentry’s multiple of
advanced QoE capabilities and PVQ provides Cogeco Cable with a most
comprehensive real-time monitoring and alerting complement available
today.

“Maintaining subscriber expansion while shortening altogether handling costs
is a pivotal beginning and we trust Sentry’s well-developed monitoring
and government capabilities will assistance us grasp a goals,” said
Jacques Gravel, VP of Network Services. “Everyone during Cogeco Cable is
committed to use value and deploying Sentry is a latest
example of this commitment.”

Cogeco Cable will primarily muster Sentry in a master headend,
where it will be comprehensively guard a customary clarification (SD)
and high clarification (HD) programming via a company’s Ontario
systems. Cogeco Cable will configure and conduct a Sentry units
using Tektronix Medius(TM) application.

“Cogeco Cable has a well-deserved repute for use excellence
and their selecting Sentry shows their joining to providing
services with a best probable quality,” pronounced Eben Jenkins, general
manager, Video Product Line, Tektronix. “Sentry’s cutting-edge QoE
and PVQ monitoring capabilities are ideal for forward-thinking
operators like Cogeco Cable that commend peculiarity is a competitive
advantage in today’s increasingly swarming multi-channel video
market.”

The award-winning Sentry is a industry’s premier calm monitoring
solution, proven in deployments with 9 of a tip 10 U.S. cable
operators and now 4 of a tip 5 Canadian operators.

Sentry utilizes modernized low parcel investigation (DPI) record to
give wire operators forlorn prominence into network anomalies
at a IP and MPEG layers during all vicious locations in a network.
This enables a discerning marker and diagnosis of video and
audio errors regardless of where they start in a network; from
ingest during a headend by a network corner only before it is
delivered to a home. This rare turn of eventuality specific
information helps operators speed a correct of a underlying issues
to extent a impact to viewers’ peculiarity of knowledge (QoE).

For some-more information about Sentry visit

tek.com/products/video-test/digital-content-monitors.html

or call 310.227.8620.

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