AUGUST 7, 2008 -- Polatis Inc. (search for Polatis), supplier of optical switch technologies, today announced that its Trinity broadcast optical switch boasts less than 50% power consumption of rival technologies on a per port basis. Trinity will be demonstrated for the first time at IBC 2008, to be held at the RAI Centre in Amsterdam, September 12 - 16, 2008.
According to Polatis, top operators are demanding more energy efficient equipment from suppliers in the face of rising maintenance and operating costs. The company says its Trinity optical switch is designed to offer broadcasters high-performance switching of any signal protocol with substantially lower power usage.
"Broadcasters are confronting two contradictory requirements: ever growing numbers of high power consuming devices in equipment rooms and corporate "Green Citizen" goals to reduce carbon footprints, energy consumption, and non-biodegradable waste," explains Sean Gordon, director of video products at Polatis. "New devices and new technologies are needed to achieve similar switching tasks with high performance at lower average power consumption, and Trinity is able to meet that requirement."
"The switch offers improved performance when compared to traditional signal switching products," he continues, "and [it] uses less than half the power to run and to cool."
Polatis representatives note that Trinity consumes minimal power, leading to longer operating life, less mandatory equipment replacement, and greater ecological friendliness.
The power consumption of a conventional optical-electrical-optical switch, employing active transmitters and receivers integrated with an electrical switch core, is twice that of Trinity's, claim Polatis representatives. An associated inherent ecological benefit of the voltage-driven actuators in Polatis technology is the lower current draw of the power supplies. A Trinity 16x16 switch's power consumption is rated at only 20W.
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