Rohde & Schwarz

EXPERTISE IN BROADCAST AND MEDIA FOUNDATION FOR NOW AND THE FUTURE

For more than 80 years, Rohde & Schwarz has stood for quality, precision and innovation in all fields of wireless communications. The electronics group is strategically based on five pillars: test and measurement, broadcast and media, cybersecurity, secure communications, radiomonitoring and radiolocation. The company addresses customers in the mobile radio, wireless, broadcasting, electronics and automotive industries, in aerospace and defence as well as government, security and critical infrastructures.

Rohde & Schwarz is among the world market leaders in its established business fields. It is the world’s leading manufacturer of wireless communications and EMC test and measurement equipment, as well as of broadcasting and T&M equipment for digital terrestrial television. The Executive Board is made up of Manfred Fleischmann (Chairman), Christian Leicher and Peter Riedel.

As an independent, family-owned company, Rohde & Schwarz generates its growth from its own resources. Since the company does not have to think in quarters, it can plan for the long term. On June 30, 2015, Rohde & Schwarz had approximately 9900 employees with about 5900 working in Germany. The group achieved a net revenue of EUR 1.83 billion in the 2014/2015 fiscal year (July to June).

Broadcast and Media Technology to Meet the Highest Requirements Rohde & Schwarz has been active in the field of TV and sound broadcasting for almost 70 years. The company has significantly contributed to the development of broadcasting –from analogue to digital to the current high-definition UHD format. Its transmitters support the world’s most common digital broadcasting standards and set standards in energy efficiency. The company’s transmitters and T&M equipment are in use in more than 80 countries.

Rohde & Schwarz also sells T&M equipment for installing, maintaining and monitoring broadcast networks. Consumer electronics manufacturers can use this T&M equipment to develop and manufacture both current and next generation devices. One out of every two set-top boxes around the world is tested using Rohde & Schwarz equipment.

The company has been very successful in developing groundbreaking systems for professional TV and film post-production over the past decades. Major international players of the TV industry rely on future ready workflows based on Rohde & Schwarz expertise. Broadcast studios and TV control rooms around the world use the company’s products to produce and process news and entertainment programmes and serials.

Rohde & Schwarz has positioned itself as a solutions provider for the entire broadcast value-added chain. It offers a complete product line to support the broadcast industry in rolling out the high-definition 4K standard. The company’s encoding and multiplexing solutions are used for test operations and initial UHD TV services. Rohde & Schwarz is also involved in defining future standards, effectively supporting media development.

Now Rohde & Schwarz focusses on more than just transmitters and T&M equipment. The company is a solutions provider for the entire broadcast valueadded chain - from ingest to postproduction and transmission. It offers an entire product line to support the broadcast industry in rolling out the high resolution 4K standard. Rohde & Schwarz develops hardware and software for professional film and video postproduction and is a global market leader in digital film processing.

Rohde & Schwarz Product Portfolio for 4K Rohde & Schwarz offers products for post-production, ingest, storage, playout, encoding and multiplexing as well as transmitters for this high-resolution standard. The company has also added new features to its T&M equipment to test 4K devices.

Rohde & Schwarz offers a complete product line for the high-resolution 4K transmission path. Many of these products are already in operation in a wide range of applications. The R&S AVHE100 headend was used for test operations and initial UHD TV services. Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. and Rohde & Schwarz have partnered to advance next-generation Ultra-HD (UHD) TV technologies by implementing the first free-to-air (FTA) UHD channel on AsiaSat 4. The R&S AVHE100 encoding solution and R&S CLIPSTER mastering

station are key components of the UHD broadcast platform.

Rohde & Schwarz has been offering systems for 4K processing in cinema post-production since 2005. The R&S CLIPSTER mastering station processes 4K data in real time. It supports mezzanine formats such as AS-02 and AS11 and can generate the necessary interoperable master format (IMF) packages up to 4K. R&S CLIPSTER supports Dolby Atmos, allowing post-production studios to create Dolby Atmos DCPs that can be easily integrated into existing workflows to increase efficiency.

The R&S VENICE 4K ingest and production server enables TV studios to set up file-based studio production workflows in 4K which resemble HD workflows in their simplicity. R&S VENICE 4K allows direct recording in 4K without any time-consuming stitching processes. The material is synchronously converted to HD-SDI and saved as a file. This parallel generation of both HD and 4K content provides TV studios with a feasible transition option until content is broadcast entirely in 4K.

The R&S SpycerBox Cell is used to store massive volumes of data in 4K production environments. Thanks to the web-based SAN Remo management software, the devices can easily be configured in clusters. 36 TB of storage and a maximum data throughput of 3G bytes per unit in just one height unit make the R&S SpycerBox Cell an exceptional combination of performance and functionality.

The transmitter generation of Rohde & Schwarz for digital TV, FM and DAB+ features maximum energy efficiency, an extremely compact design and innovative redundancy concepts that can reduce costs by more than 70%.

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Rohde & Schwarz

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O ce No. 210, Building No. 01, 2nd Floor Dubai Media City, UAE Tel: +971 (0)4 44 61 900 Email: sales.mea@rohde-schwarz.com Website: www.rohde-schwarz.com

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