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Governors State University Switches to Campuswide Audio-over-IP Network

Campus Technology: A project that began as a simple upgrade to the campus broadcast production center at Governors State University in Illinois has expanded to a campuswide audio-over-IP network supporting the campus meeting hall, classrooms and nursing labs, in addition to cable TV broadcasts, theater performances and sports broadcasting.

The campus production center is home to two television studios, two control rooms, a master control center for the university's local cable access channel, and multiple editing suites and audio production rooms. Originally, the facility used a fairly traditional broadcast infrastructure, consisting of off-the-shelf Cisco switches and standard network cabling, but the growing need to manage multichannel audio for video productions and remote audio from off-site production locations was pushing the limits of the center's audio network.

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