France Télévisions renews its confidence in the AEQ’s talk-show Systel IP

Following this new expansion of its talk-show systems with these units of Systel IP, France Télévisions will be able to manage up to 64 simultaneous calls.

France Télévisions, the French public television broadcaster that operates five TV terrestrial channels (France 2, France 3, France 4, France 5 and France Ô) and the non stop news channel France Info, the overseas TV channel, Réseau Outre-Mer, and several webs with multimedia services, renews its confidence in the AEQ‘s talk-show Systel IP.

Traditionally, France Télévisions has been one of the reference European users of the AEQ TH02 Digital Telephone hybrids at TV central control and since its technical renovation and operational modernization in 2005 France Televisions, has an installation of 2 AEQ Systel 6000 talk-show systems at their headquarters.

This system allows France Télévisions working simultaneously with more than 40 VoIP or ISDN calls or communications providing simultaneous service for several production studios. The AEQ Systel 6000 is used to receive all the calls that come from outside the control. Principally coordination calls, but they can be also to go out on the air.

In 2016, and in order to comply with and adapt to a new technical and operational expansion of their central studios, AEQ’s technology for talk-show systems has again been the preferred choice by France Televisión’s technical managers.

SIP technology

Technology for telecommunications infrastructures has made notable progress during the last few years, and on this occasion the talk-show system selected has been the AEQ Systel IP based on SIP technology. Two complete platforms have been supplied as well as a limited number of gateways allowing the broadcaster to operate the system in combination with their SIP based PBX for VoIP calls and for calls originating form PSTN (analogue) and ISDN lines.

From now they use gateways but when they migrate they switchboard to IP, it will be possible do the connections without the gateways.

Systel IP can be configured in automatic response, with a tail by each line. The operative is simplified to adapt to the simple management of communications that gives them the Systel 6000 system.

Systel IP is a broadcast calls and talk-shows system, which reduces drastically communications costs, significantly improves the audio quality and increases the flexibility and the integration with already existing telephone systems. This talk-show system signifies a small monetary investment that is amortized very quickly. Company telephony systems are migrating very quickly to VoIP’s technology using SIP based PBX systems, distributed or virtual, making it possible to access new alternative telecommunication service suppliers.

The analogue telephone systems has until recently been an isolated island with very high costs of operation and also somewhat blocked by technology. Systel IP allows connecting broadcast telephony to the standard company PBX based on SIP, avoiding having to use conventional exclusive lines for broadcast. Further, and in more traditional corporate environment, Systel IP allows interconnecting for example, different meeting rooms or other meeting facilities, as well as routing the audio between rooms and systems for simultaneous translation that can be placed either remotely or locally.

Following this new expansion of its talk-show systems with these units of Systel IP, France Télévisions will be able to manage up to 24 simultaneous calls. This ambitious project has been led by France Télévisions’ department of engineering in coordination with AEQ’s technical support for the configuration and also assisted by the local partner and installation company Eurocom.