AOIP - Audio Over IP in the Control Room
Jim Armstrong, Director of Eastern US Sales, Telos/Omnia/Axia
Wiring broadcast studios has always been a long and arduous process. A process that cost a bundle in wire, punch blocks, many man hours installing it and chasing after gremlins. Distributed Audio over an IP Based network has changed the way engineers wire their facilities and offers things like scalability, synergy and flexibility thus saving a great deal on costs now and in the future. This discussion will showcase how to wire a facility using an Ethernet backbone and just how powerful and easy it can be. You want an ROI on that build? Then you better look to AOIP.
About the speaker
Jim Armstrong got bitten by the radio bug early on. “I was always fascinated with the home stereo when I was young,” he remembers. “You know, playing music and talking up songs using an eight-track and really cheesy turntable in the garage. And when I got into Junior High, they had this thing called the A/V department.”
While toting around 60’s-vintage Voice of Music tape decks and DuKane projectors helped Jim with his tech skills (and muscles), his love for radio was fed by legendary Boston FM rockers like WBCN. After graduating, he got his first radio gig as the AM Drive jock at WESX in Salem, Massachusetts. “You know, the station that tells you who got arrested last night and what’s for lunch at all the elementary schools,” he jokes.
After spending 15 years in radio at such well-known stations as Boston’s WEEI and with Metro Networks on WBZ-AM/TV, Jim’s early love of audio technology reasserted itself, and he entered the broadcast equipment world, holding sales management positions at Burk, Gentner, Klotz, and SAS before joining Telos/Omnia/Axia as Director of Eastern Sales in 2006.
Now living in Atlanta, Georgia, Jim loves music and can often be found making his dog howl with his guitar playing.
