21st December, 2008

Vericast demonstrated live DAB broadcasting today, using DenMux output over a standard G.703/G.704 telecommunications card, driving a UBS DAB Modulator, kindly loaned by NyeTech.

For a few hours, a low-power DAB transmission was demonstrated within their main office building and was received by a number of commercially available DAB receivers.

"It's quite exciting to actually listen to your own transmissions for the first time," said Managing Director, Duncan Mackay. "We realise that our technology partners have been modulating our output streams for some time, but to get a fully working system together for testing commercial receiver is something else. During testing, we actually found problems with a receiver from a very well-known manufacturer. It was very rewarding to witness the value of this product first-hand."

The addition of the G.703/G.704 ETI output is soon to be branded as "DenMux Live", and will be available for receiver developers as a 1U rack-mounted unit.