Harris Corporation to Provide United States Air Force with Video Broadcast Systems for Breaking News
October 22 2007 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Award Expands Company's Broadcast Presence with Military Customers
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris
Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and
information technology company, has been awarded a contract to
provide the United States Air Force with broadcast distribution
systems that will provide breaking news to 10 military bases in
Europe and Asia. Harris was chosen by Snader and Associates to
provide breakaway news systems to the Air Force News Agency
Services (AFNEWS). The announcement was made at GEOINT 2007 (Harris
Booth #501), being held October 21-24 at the Henry B. Gonzalez
Convention Center in San Antonio. Once deployed, the Harris
breakaway news systems -- featuring Harris(R) NEXIO(TM) servers as
well as routing systems, software and processing gear -- will allow
the U.S. Air Force to provide breaking news to bases in the Azores,
Turkey, Italy, Germany and Japan. The Air Force News Agency,
headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, communicates news, information
and entertainment through print and electronic media to Air Force
and Army military and civilian members assigned to locations
worldwide. The agency provides news and information via print,
broadcast and Internet products. "Our complete, shared storage news
distribution system provides the scalability to meet the U.S. Air
Force's changing broadcast needs," said Tim Thorsteinson, president
of the Harris Broadcast Communications. "The truly integrated
workflow offered by our breakaway news system enabled us to win
this significant contract." NEXIO(TM) is Harris Corporation's
scalable, interoperable server platform. It is a highly integrated
family of products that employs open standards to greatly
accelerate time-to-air and dramatically reduce the costs associated
with content acquisition, production, distribution and media
management. As a replacement for videotape recorders, NEXIO(TM)
servers provide real-time I/O, network interfaces, ingest, playout
and FTP capabilities all within a single chassis. Snader and
Associates Inc. is an independent reseller and integrator serving
production, post-production, audio visual presentation, 3D
animation and federal government professionals around the globe.
Harris Broadcast Communications offers products, systems and
services that provide interoperable workflow solutions that span
the entire broadcast delivery chain. The Harris ONE approach brings
together highly integrated and cost-effective products that are
ideal for emerging media business models and for customers
upgrading media operations to digital and high-definition services.
About Harris Corporation Harris is an international communications
and information technology company serving government and
commercial markets in more than 150 countries. Headquartered in
Melbourne, Florida, the company has annual revenue of over $4
billion and 16,000 employees -- including nearly 7,000 engineers
and scientists. Harris is dedicated to developing best-in-class
assured communications(TM) products, systems, and services.
Additional information about Harris Corporation is available at
http://www.harris.com/. DATASOURCE: Harris Corporation CONTACT:
Susan Sheppard, Government Solutions Unit, +1-585-624-7969, , or
Dave Glidden, Vice President, Marketing Operations,
+1-513-459-3639, , both of Harris Broadcast Communications Web
site: http://www.harris.com/
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