Curtis Media Center relies on Extron NAV Pro AVoIP for its multimedia system

This innovative center University of North Carolina allows journalism and media students to have an audiovisual system in all spaces, whose backbone is AV over IP technology from Extron.

The Hussman School of Journalism and Media of the University of North Carolina (UNC) It has an innovative space, called Curtis Media Center, in which students can carry out practical, composed of a broadcasting studio and control room, another podcast, a space for creators and two divisible classrooms equipped for learning HyFlex.

Curtis Media Center aims to train “current and future generations of journalists and media professionals in a multimedia environment that encourages innovation and collaboration”, as they emphasize from this school.

The audiovisual system that supports the activities taught in this building is the work of Gary Kayye in collaboration with Gary Kirk, Associate Professor of Advertising and Public Relations and Broadcasting and Emerging Media Engineer at UNC Hussman School, respectively.

The specialist Context Systems has made the design, installation and commissioning of the audiovisual system throughout the building, in which the spine is NAV Pro AV over IP of Extron.

This is how Gary Kirk explains it: “NAV Pro AV systems over IP and NAVigator from Extron are great for their accessibility remotely, and I can configure all AV endpoints in the building from my desktop. If there is a problem in a classroom that is in use, Can I redirect AV assets from an empty classroom, allowing the teaching to continue while I solve the problem. Thanks to the 'wizard' style touch panel interface, “Users are self-sufficient and support calls are minimal”.

All Curtis Media Center learning spaces can originate and display multimedia content. Any source can connect to any destination, through a red AV over IP 1 Gbps, using NAV Pro encoders and decoders.

A NAVigator AV over IP system manager configures and controls NAV Pro endpoints and establishes connections over the facility's LAN. Users request AV connections between sources and displays with a couple of taps on a touch panel TouchLink Pro by Extron.

multimedia processors streaming SMP 352 transmit, broadcast and record live presentations from classrooms, a seminar space and a broadcast studio. Besides, include integration with Panopto, allowing them to receive recording schedules and stream live video.

Mobile audiovisual media in Curtis Media Center classrooms contain presentation systems Extron ShareLink Pro, so that attendees can share audiovisual content from sources byod wireless or wired.