TELOS Z/IP ONE
These days, you can get broadband Internet just about everywhere, which makes it ideal for live remotes. But public Internet can also be erratic. You could be lucky enough to get a good connection, but it might deteriorate during your broadcast. What to do? Cross your fingers and hope for the best? Or reduce your bit rate, sacrificing audio quality in hopes of making it through your show?
With Z/IP ONE (the “Z/IP” stands for “Zephyr IP”), you don’t have to compromise audio quality for a solid connection. Z/IP ONE helps you get the best possible quality from public IP networks and mobile data services — even from connections behind NATs and firewalls. Telos® collaborated with Fraunhofer (the developers of MP3 and many AAC breakthroughs) to develop a unique coding control algorithm that adapts to changing Internet conditions on the fly, helping you maintain quality and stability.
We call it ACT, short for Agile Connection Technology, and only Telos has it. Using ACT to sense and adapt to the condition of your IP link, Z/IP ONE delivers superb performance on real-world networks. ACT adapts dynamically to minimize the effects of packet loss and jitter. When the bits are flowing smoothly, you’ll benefit from the lowest possible delay and the highest possible fidelity. If congestion starts to occur, Z/IP ONE automatically lowers bit rate and increases buffer length to keep audio flowing at maximum quality. You’ll get reliable audio even when network conditions are unpredictable — and you won’t need to fiddle with settings or codecs to do it.
To make certain your remote broadcast has excellent audio quality even when IP connections are not- so-excellent, Telos engineers employed AAC-ELD (Advanced Audio Coding-Enhanced Low Delay) to produce excellent fidelity at low bitrates, with nearly inaudible loss concealment and very little delay. Standard high-performance codecs are a part of the Z/IP ONE toolkit as well, such as AAC-HE, AAC-LD, MPEG4 AAC-LC, MPEG2 AAC-LC, G.711, G.722 and even linear PCM. And if apt-X is part of your codec cache, you can add it to your Z/IP ONE as a small extra-cost option.
It’s from Telos, so of course you expect that Z/IP ONE will be easy to set up and easy to use. And it is — the front panel controls are intuitive and friendly, and the built-in Web server makes short work of configuration or remote control via any PC with a Web browser. And our exclusive worldwide Z/IP Server service, free to Z/IP owners, lets you easily get around NATs and network firewalls for fast connections to your favorite locations. For even more flexibility, Z/IP ONE can connect to third-party apps such as LUCI LIVE and LUCI LIVE Lite to receive on-the-go reports from smartphones and tablets.
Around back, you’ll find analog and AES3 XLR ins and outs, a Livewire LAN port for quick connection to Axia® networks, and a separate WAN port for safe connection to “the outside world.”
Z/IP ONE is also wireless-capable and connects natively to IP networks via Wi-Fi. A parallel port is provided for end-to-end, time-aligned GPIO contact closures; Z/IP ONE can also transport RS-232 serial data (using an inexpensive USB-to-Serial adaptor cable), synchronized with audio delivery — useful for RDS/RBDS data, as well as other serial data, at up to 9600 bps.
