By Tom Hartnett Technical Director, Comrex Granted, I may be biased, but I believe Comrex Opal is akin to magic. If you haven’t experienced this magic yet, let me fill you in on what it does: Studio installs Opal on their Internet link. Someone in the studio retrieves a link from the server inside Opal […]
Continue Reading In the News Tom's Tech BlogWe’re cutting a new version of firmware this summer for ACCESS and BRIC-Link II codecs that adds a long-sought-for reliability feature. We call it HotSwap, and it allows you to back up your STL or other dedicated links with a wireless modem. It’s an enhancement to our CrossLock reliability layer. Normal CrossLock operation allows the […]
Continue Reading In the News Tom's Tech BlogLuego de finalizada la NAB 2018, Comrex introdujo cuatro nuevos productos. Uno de ellos es una nueva aplicación. Por años hemos recomendado la aplicación Linphone, es buena y gratis, pero muchas veces escuchamos que es muy compleja para instalar y configurar. ¡Así que introducimos FieldTap! Internamente FieldTap es Linphone pero a sido optimizada para ser […]
Continue Reading In the News Tom's Tech BlogA couple of years ago we started seeing an increasing number of incoming “ghost” calls on our codecs.This only affected users who opened the SIP functionality on their devices to be compatible with SIP-based calling apps and WebRTC bridging. We cut some firmware to address this, by implementing a “blacklist” of common attributes of these calls. […]
Continue Reading In the News Tom's Tech BlogNAB 2018 is over and Comrex introduced four new products! One of them is a new codec app. We’ve been pointing folks to Linphone for years, and it’s great and free, but we often hear it’s too complex for non-techies to set up and use. Enter FieldTap! Under the hood, FieldTap is Linphone. Go open source software! But it’s […]
Continue Reading In the News Tom's Tech BlogComrex products like ACCESS, BRIC-Link, and STAC-VIP each serve a rich web page that functions as their main user interface. For a variety of reasons (that were perfectly sound at the time) these pages were designed with the Adobe Flash tool. But Flash has gotten a (not entirely undeserved) reputation in recent years. Its constant need […]
Continue Reading In the News Tom's Tech BlogWith our ACCESS portable and LiveShot portable codecs, we ship a a high gain Wifi adapter, the Edimax EW7811-UAC. It has an in-built antenna, conforms to all the latest high throughput standards, and is dual band. It also sticks up a bit, which can result in a broken USB port (as shown) […]
Continue Reading Tom's Tech BlogQ: I use OnSIP to bridge web calls to my codecs via this technote. It doesn’t work anymore! What happened? A: OnSIP (our favorite VoIP company) made a change to the way they bridge WebRTC to SIP calls. They now offer a new app at app.onsip.com to allow for this function. Q: So I can […]
Continue Reading Tom's Tech BlogIt was nice to read this Radio World blog about Westwood One’s operations during the Rio games. We’re used to seeing big-time broadcasts like this done via ISDN, with IP codecs being relegated to the backup role. But it seems the script has flipped, and IP is now considered reliable enough to be the primary […]
Continue Reading Gear in Action Tom's Tech BlogMuch like the US has a “special relationship” politically with the UK, we at Comrex work closely with our UK partners, Vortex, on special projects. Their latest one is the VX-4901 panel. It turns a BRIC-Link II codec into a full-featured intercom system, allowing the easy connection of ten sites and connection of a speaker […]
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