March 5, 2008
AP's ENPS working with more than two dozen broadcast system vendors at NAB 2008
At this year’s National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, 25 companies will be demonstrating their products with ENPS, AP’s news production system, and interfaces building on the AP-supported MOS protocol.
AP has cultivated development relationships with more than 100 companies, and hundreds of ENPS sites around the world use MOS-enabled systems integrating products from dozens of vendors. Partners showcasing compatible products at NAB 2008 include Autoscript Ltd. (C6419), Beehive Systems Ltd. (SL9908), BitCentral Inc. (SL7720), Brainstorm S.L. (SU5220A), Building4Media BV (SL6705), Chyron Corp. (SL3713), Crispin Corp. (SU5408), Dalet Digital Media Systems (SU8520), Digital Broadcast Inc. (SU6205), Enco Systems Inc. (N6512), Evertz Microsystems Ltd. (N1713), JustEdit S.L. (VSN) (N3714), Thomson Corp. (N902), Harris Corp. (N2502), Hi Tech Systems Ltd. (SU11515), Integrated Broadcast Information Systems (IBIS) (SU8605), Omneon Inc. (SU9620), Orad Hi-Tecs System Ltd. (SU1920), Pebble Beach Systems Ltd. (SU15205), Pixel Power Ltd. (SU10920), Quantel Ltd. (SL720), Ross Video Ltd. (SU6010), Sony Electronics Inc. (SU906), Solid State Logic (N4031), and Vizrt Ltd. (SL4805/R129).
"AP is cooperating with almost every major supplier of broadcast technology on various ENPS and MOS projects," said Mike Palmer, AP’s Director, Broadcast Digital Distribution Systems and Strategy, "and each has access to special ENPS resources to help them seamlessly integrate with ENPS production workflow and AP’s content products."
"We are maintaining a leading role with broadcasters and broadcast equipment manufacturers worldwide," added Lee Perryman, Director of Broadcast Technology. "The variety of compatible, non-proprietary solutions is a tremendous advantage for ENPS sites, helping simplify more reliable, efficient and cost-effective integration."
MOS is a reliable, widely-adopted network interface for linking news production systems such as ENPS with broadcast equipment, enabling journalists to see, use, and control a variety of devices including video servers and editors, audio servers and editors, still stores, character generators, prompters, automation systems, content distribution systems and services, and special effects devices. MOS support within ENPS is the most sophisticated implementation. Using MOS, systems from different manufacturers can work with ENPS to create faster, more versatile, and more interactive newsroom workflows.
ENPS is the world’s most popular broadcast news production system, with leading market share and used by more than 50,000 reporters, writers, editors and producers in more than 690 newsrooms in 57 countries. Because AP is not allied with any one hardware vendor, users of AP systems are able to take advantage of best-fit solutions for external systems.