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The Associated Press
Technical Broadcast, IP/IT and Audiovisual Design
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 When The Associated Press (AP) needed a company for the design, engineering and integration of broadcast, audiovisual (AV), and IP/IT infrastructures into its new facility in Washington, DC it called upon the expertise of Professional Products, Inc. (PPI).
The Washington Bureau and the Broadcast News Center -- home to the Broadcast Wires, the Radio Network, Online Video, Multimedia, Graphics Bank, Mid-Atlantic News, APFN, and the Americas operations of AP Television and Global Media Services --had been separated two blocks apart for more than three decades. The operations were combined into one location with the layout collaboratively designed to maximize and exploit editorial, production and administrative synergies. The new location is at the corner of 13th & L Streets in the northwest quadrant of the city. |
 The goal of the four-floor 82,000 square foot facility is to bring its multiple departments, including international video, radio, domestic video, online video, multimedia, photography, broadcast graphics and print journalism together into a single location. For this project, PPI supplied and integrated the equipment for the facility’s technical core, master control room, TV studios, studio control rooms, client rooms, central news desk (CND), newsroom, chroma key studios, radio studios, and conference rooms. The equipment contained within these areas includes: |
| - Cameras |
- Customized Gallery and Netia software |
| - IT and Telco infrastructure |
- Rear projection systems |
| - LCD TV monitors |
- Plasma displays |
| - 10GB fiber backbone |
- 34 Final Cut Pro editing workstations |
| - Microphones |
- X-SAN (Shared Area Network) server technology |
| - 140 racks |
- Over 300 miles of cabling |
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In a matter of months, PPI was able to complete the assignment, thereby helping to streamline the process for AP’s clients and staff by providing them with a modern and efficient environment to capture, produce, assign and distribute accurate and timely news. |
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