Technical

Technical

Since the conception of TEABBA in 1989, one of the major sections of TEABBA is the Technical section which provides and supports the broadcast maintenance service for the RIBS (formally known as BRACS) sites in remote communities across the Top End of Australia.

Responsible for the re-transmission of the TEABBA broadcast from the hub and the local service, as well as including the assistance of maintaining and monitoring the local emergency broadcast provider (ABC Regional) for 29 remote Aboriginal communities, TEABBA uses broadcast technicians to ensure the services are running efficiently and in conjunction with ACMA’S policies and rules. It is this reason that Federal Government bodies use TEABBA’s information and data collection to help improve and add to these services as we migrate further in the digital age.

Regular maintenance throughout the year takes place including upgrading of aging equipment, monitoring services and providing RIBS operators with essential hardware and software to perform their shows local and across the footprint.
Since the conception of TEABBA in 1989, one of the major sections of TEABBA is the Technical section which provides and supports the broadcast maintenance service for the RIBS (formally known as BRACS) sites in remote communities across the Top End of Australia.
Responsible for the re-transmission of the TEABBA broadcast from the hub and the local service, as well as including the assistance of maintaining and monitoring the local emergency broadcast provider (ABC Regional) for 29 remote Aboriginal communities, TEABBA uses broadcast technicians to ensure the services are running efficiently and in conjunction with ACMA’S policies and rules. It is this reason that Federal Government bodies use TEABBA’s information and data collection to help improve and add to these services as we migrate further in the digital age.
Regular maintenance throughout the year takes place including upgrading of aging equipment, monitoring services and providing RIBS operators with essential hardware and software to perform their shows local and across the footprint.
Following the IRRR project in 2008, most communities had the necessary equipment to perform a local broadcast; some RIBS even had a working phone line which enabled them to broadcast their show over the TEABBA footprint with a Codec Tieline.

This has since further developed with the aging phone lines now becoming obsolete and major changes in the technical infrastructure, we now utilise a IP based solution which is a much stronger and reliable signal.

In the past TEABBA Services were focussed on the digital switchover, this included the implementation of professional tele delta receivers and a migration to a Zip one device which now also sends our signal to IMPARJA to be boosted to the satellite using IP direct to the base in Alice Springs.

This is then sent via satellite to the communities which is transmitted on a local frequency which ACMA has allocated via channel 921 on the VAST network.

As time went on TEABBA understood it was time to move ahead and have now implemented a ZETTA software play out system from (RCS) in the hub and is slowly moving to migrate the RIBS stations with this software, in the future these will be linked with a internet solution so that the network is strengthened and up with the times.

TEABBA will always pursue cost effective technology solutions and strive towards maintaining and providing a reliable broadcast service.
Following the IRRR project in 2008, most communities had the necessary equipment to perform a local broadcast; some RIBS even had a working phone line which enabled them to broadcast their show over the TEABBA footprint with a Codec Tieline.
This has since further developed with the aging phone lines now becoming obsolete and major changes in the technical infrastructure, we now utilise a IP based solution which is a much stronger and reliable signal.
In the past TEABBA Services were focussed on the digital switchover, this included the implementation of professional tele delta receivers and a migration to a Zip one device which now also sends our signal to IMPARJA to be boosted to the satellite using IP direct to the base in Alice Springs.
This is then sent via satellite to the communities which is transmitted on a local frequency which ACMA has allocated via channel 921 on the VAST network
As time went on TEABBA understood it was time to move ahead and have now implemented a ZETTA software play out system from (RCS) in the hub and is slowly moving to migrate the RIBS stations with this software, in the future these will be linked with a internet solution so that the network is strengthened and up with the times.
TEABBA will always pursue cost effective technology solutions and strive towards maintaining and providing a reliable broadcast service.

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