Wegener Communications user manual Overview, Store/Forward Radio Networks featuring iPump6420

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800070-01 Rev B

Chapter 1, Page 5

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Customer Traffic &								PIO (triggering)
Automation			Uplink site		Tx antenna	Rx antenna		closures
								accepted	Relay closures
systems
					Thru satellite link:				delivered	Local affiliate
									(1 or 2 banks)
					- Streaming live audio programming					radio stations
									RBDS
								RF		(typical)
				RF subsystem:	- Broadcasted file transfers				outputs
							One of many	input
									(1 or 2x)
	}			Modulator & Upconverter	- Network (COMPEL) cmds to create
									Audio
					playlists, assign groups, set channels, etc.		receive sites		outputs
Customer’s		MPEG Audio			- Network cmds to insert local files within live				(1 or 2x)
live audio		Mux		Final Mux	audio program
sources		subsystem		Transport
			Mux
					By HTTP over IP link:
			Transport
				Wegener UMX5010	- Return Status Reports
					- Return File-play as-run reports
					- Return file inventory reports			Wegener
					- Return NACKs for missing files			iPump6420
		MPE/IP Encapsulator	MPE/IP		- Return Off-air (AM/FM) recorded files
			over UDP	Serial cntl
				stream				WAN (direct) or	Analog phone	Local AM or
							LAN (behind firewall)		modem	FM carrier

Schedules & media files Internet

			Return Path
Customer file		Wegener	over HTTP	Ethernet LAN		Thru web access (alternately):
	FTP
server		COMPEL/MediaPlan
		Uplink control system				- Pull stored audio programming
					and/or ...
						- Pull stored spots
						- Pull playlists
Customer	}					- Pull network (COMPEL)
					PSTN phone	commands scheduling file plays
closures,		N relay		Modem server
to trigger					system
		or TCP triggers
localization						Rev
						7/15/2009 12:03 PM

Figure 1: Overview, Store/Forward Radio Networks featuring iPump6420

Figure 1-1: Store/Forward System overview	iPump 6420
	User’s Manual