Telos Alliance presents Zephyr Connect software multi-codec gateway

Telos Alliance has unveiled Telos Zephyr Connect, a software-based multi-codec gateway for transporting multiple channels of stereo, mono and dual-mono audio across IP networks.

Built on the legacy of the Telos iPort series of hardware products, Zephyr Connect is delivered as a software container that can be deployed on-premises on a COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) server or cloud-hosted.

Zephyr Connect is ideal for sending multiple linear or MPEG channels over VPNs, satellite links, Ethernet radio systems and telco-and ISP-provided services such as SD-WAN, MPLS, or legacy data links. It can also be used as a network distribution system, a multichannel link to remote studios, or a studio-to-transmitter link. Paired with an appropriate server for streaming audio, Zephyr Connect can pass audio, ancillary data and GPIO with a QoS-enabled IP link between studios on a Livewire network using Telos Alliance xNodes.

“Zephyr Connect provides the same functionality and features as our Telos iPort High Density hardware platform, but with more flexibility and scalability; each instance comes with two bidirectional codec channels, but customers can expand that to a total of 64 channels in one-channel increments, making it easy to grow as their needs change,” said Robbie Green, Telos Alliance product manager. “Beyond that, Zephyr Connect reinforces our commitment to virtualisation alongside our traditional hardware products.”