A Note From The President Of Telos - Axia Element Installation & User Manual

A Note From The President of Telos

It's been a tradition since Telos' very first product, the
Telos 10 digital phone system, that I share a few words
with you at the beginning of each manual. So here goes.
In radio broadcast studios we're still picking up the
pieces that have fallen out from the digital audio revolu-
tion. We're not using cart machines anymore because
PCs are so clearly a better way to store and play audio.
We're replacing our analog mixing consoles with digital
ones and routing audio digitally. But we're still using
decades-old analog or primitive digital methods to con-
nect our gear. Livewire has been developed by Telos to
provide a modern PC and computer network-oriented
way to connect and distribute professional audio around
a broadcast studio facility.
Your question may be, "Why Telos? Don't you guys
make phone stuff?" Yes, we certainly do. But we've al-
ways been attracted to new and better ways to
make things happen in radio facilities. And
we've always looked for opportunities to
make networks of all kinds work for broad-
casters. When DSP was first possible, we used
it to fix the ages-old phone hybrid problem. It
was the first use of DSP in radio broadcasting.
When ISDN and MP3 first happened, we saw
the possibility to make a truly useful codec. We were the
first to license and use MP3 and the first to incorporate
ISDN into a codec. We were active in the early days of
internet audio, and the first to use MP3 on the internet.
Inventing and adapting new technologies for broadcast
is what we've always been about. And we've always
been marrying audio with networks. It's been our pas-
sion right from the start. In our genes, if you will. As a
pioneer in broadcast digital audio and DSP, we've grown
an R&D team with a lot of creative guys who are open-
eyed to new ideas. So it's actually quite natural that we
would be playing marriage broker to computer networks
and studio audio.
What you get from this is nearly as hot as a couple
on their wedding night: On one RJ-45, two-way multiple
audio channels, sophisticated control and data capabil-
ity, and built-in computer compatibility. You can use
Livewire as a simple sound card replacement – an audio
interface connecting to a PC with an RJ-45 cable. But
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