Commercial Clients
TELE-TV (Bell Atlantic Video Services) Reston, VA
CEI was contracted to supply full turnkey consulting, system design, engineering, equipment procurement, implementation and training services for Bell Atlantic Video Services (BVS), Digital Service Bureau and Digital Production Center. These facilities utilize extensive supercomputing technology, advanced software and hardware and large scale file server implementations to establish key elements of the BVS system which will deliver Interactive Multimedia Television to the home through new and existing telephone wiring. The Digital Service Bureau is a multi-format component digital playback and routing system designed to originate, correct and process a diverse variety of program material which is then channeled to various program compression systems. The Digital Production Center is a multi-media program production facility utilizing open platform supercomputers, extensive file server technology, video/audio editing systems, high speed local area networks and other tools to produce and integrate sophisticated original concept multi-media program material.
Additional areas of CEI service included:
- Full technical area programming and space planning
- Detailed facility floor plans and layouts
- HVAC, power, and grounding system design and specifications
- Comprehensive acoustic specification and designs
- Design of operational lighting
- Detailed design and documentation of all technical systems
- Design and construction of all operating consoles and cabinetry
- Integrated system control and monitoring facilities
- Multiple supercomputer workstations
- Comprehensive digital signal routing systems
- Software for multiple production tasks
- Extensive archive and storage systems
- Complex interfacing and format translations
- Full equipment procurement services
- Building construction monitoring
- Installation, test and training on all technical systems
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DIRECTV Nework Management Center, El Segundo, California
CEI was contracted by DIRECTV, Inc. to design and integrate the new DIRECTV® Network Management Center located at its El Segundo, CA Headquarters. CEI collaborated closely with the DIRECTV team to complete the design and build-out of the DIRECTV Network Management Center which provides signal monitoring and analysis tools for its extensive lineup of programming, capable of simultaneously displaying over 375 program channels.
The consoles and enormous monitor walls were designed together to maintain good sightlines and "surround" the people seated at the two rows of consoles. Tubular steel materials are used within the 14 foot monitor wall framing to satisfy building code seismic considerations and to orient the upper wall down towards the console positions.
Among the systems integrated at the DIRECTV Network Management Center are:
* Sony 8", 14" and 19" Monitors
* Proscan 16 X 9 CINEMASCREEN Monitors
* Satellite RF Distribution System feeding Sony/RCA IRD Receivers
* A Telex RTS ADAM Intercom Communications Matrix
* Tektronix & Wohler Test and Measurement Equipment
* All Racks, Cabling, Consoles and Connectors
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