Present It - Abit's premier presentation automation system - is a product that will support the needs of most transmission situations using Abit Tools, a range of intelligent functional modules, and custom software development.

Present It also has the advantage of being a fault-tolerant, hot-standby system.

Abit Tools

designed for a growing television station with the need to consider future expansion and offers functionality to support attractive and creative presentation styles, with reliable integration between automated and manual control. Up to twenty-two network channels can be controlled by one system.

designed for a television station broadcasting to several local areas from several network feeds.

a regional application for use within a large television station that manages regional opt outs from its own networks centrally.

To give your station that extra level of playout resiliance you can add mirrored play-back with :·

this can be added to network controller, opt-out manager or network variations and this will add the security of mirrored play-back off your video servers and allow you to have dedicated, centralised, library video server(s).

Technical Information

The system consists of two Central Control Computers ( CCC 'A' and CCC 'B' ) running in an automatic hot standby mode and a control lines matrix (CLM ). Each CCC is a robust, industrial specification, multi-processor computer running a hard real-time, true multi-tasking operating system.

Connection to external data systems is done via intelligent bridges. These DataBridges run under Windows 2000 or Windows XP and act as the link between Present It and external systems.