- Central apparatus room
Central apparatus room or CAR or Central machine room, are room or several rooms found at
broadcast facilities. These rooms contain broadcast and broadcastIT mission critical gear necessary to broadcast andtelevision operations. CARs usually housevideo router s,video server s,compressors andmultiplexers [ [http://confluence.rave.ac.uk/confluence/display/FComm/Central+Apparatus+Room+(CAR) Faculty of Communication - Confluence - The Ravensbourne Wiki - Central Apparatus Room (CAR)] ] [ [http://www.virtualmediaonline.com/events/Zelin%20-Machine%20Room%20Review.html Bob Zelin U N L E A S H E D Series - Why do you want Central Machine Room?] ] .Common CAR equipment
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Electronics Racks.
*Integrated receiver/decoder (IRD).
*Frame synchronizer s.
*Video router s.
*Video server s.
*Broadcast delay s.
* Subtitling Systems.
*Video monitoring tools
*GPS receivers.
*Camera control unit s.*
Encoder s.
*Multiplexer s
*Conditional access system s.
*Signal Scramblers .
*Transport Stream analyzer s
*Fiber optic transceivers .
*Media Storage .
* Talkback.
* RFDistribution .
* IF Distribution.*
Network switch es.
*Router s.
* Broadcast grade monitors.
*Waveform monitor .
* SDIAudio de-embedder .
*High Power Amplifier .
*Antenna Tracking Systems .ee also
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Broadcast engineering
*Data center
*Server room
*Server farm
*Network Operations Center
*Master Control Room
*Transmission Control Room References
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