7500 Series Instruction Manual
Glossary-1
Glossary
AES
Audio Engineering Society. AES represents
any of the digital audio standards estab-
lished by the Audio Engineering Society.
AES/EBU
Name for a digital audio standards estab-
lished jointly by the Audio Engineering Soci-
ety and European Broadcasting Union. The
sampling frequencies for this standard vary
depending on the format being used.
Alarm
A signal indicating major or minor alarm
conditions.
Alien Matrices
Any matrix which is not a part of the Series
7000 router product line.
All-level Takes
Switch the same input number on all Levels,
to the controlled Destination.
Amezi
Asynchronous Mezzanine board. An RS-
422/RS-232 communications board which
mounts on the 7000 MCPU or a 7000 Com-
munications Interface (CIF) module and pro-
vides RS-422 and RS-232 ports. The
Asynchronous Mezzanine board is one of
several mezzanine boards of differing func-
tionality.
ANC
Active Node Controller. An ANC is commu-
nicating with the MCPU and will appear in a
list of Active Node Controllers when polled
by the GUI. The Enhanced Node Controller
and the Matrix Controller modules also ap-
pear in the list. ANCs include both the pri-
mary and backup Controller modules.
ANSI
American National Standards Institute.
Assignment
Assignment is an action that grants permis-
sion for exclusive control of a resource. Mul-
tiple devices may be assigned permission for
exclusive control of a single device, however
only one may exercise control at a specific
point in time.
Control of particular sources and TieLines
can be Assigned to destinations on a case-by-
case basis. The Assignment system is en-
abled (Machine and TieLine Assignment)
through the GUI Enables menu. Active As-
signments are controlled through the GUI
(on-line, OnLine menu, Assignments sub-
menu) or may be handled by an external au-
tomation or scheduling system.
Backplane (Rear connector channel, Mother-
board)
The circuit board at the back of an electronics
frame where modules (from the front) and
cables (from the rear) are plugged-in.
BNC
Bayonet Neill-Concelman (BNC) connector.
(Named for its inventors). A type of coaxial
cable connector.
BPI
Backplane Interface. This is required for a
Communications Interface module to com-
municate with a MCPU module.
BPS
Button Per Source. Name given to a panel
feature that performs a source take with the
single push of a button.
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