Central apparatus room (CAR, pronounced "C-A-R"), Central machine room, or Central equipment room (CER), or Central technical area (CTA), is where shared equipment common to all technical areas is located. This room maybe one of several at broadcast facilities. It should be air-conditioned, however low-noise specifications such as acoustical treatments are optional.^[1] Equipment is connected either directly with an attached foldout monitor, keyboard and mouse or remotely via KVM switch, ssh, VNC, or remote desktop.

Contents 1 Gear 1.1 Common equipment 2 See also 3 References

[edit] Gear

These rooms contain broadcast and broadcast IT mission critical gear necessary to broadcast and television operations. CARs usually house audio and video routers, video servers, compressors and multiplexers.

They contain broadcast and monitoring equipment, through which all the operations are monitored by the Transmission Engineer, with out disturbing the Studio Recordings. CER usually houses audio and video routers, video servers, compressors and multiplexers, Analog Transmission System, UP Link, Digital Processing Synchronizer, Video Patch Panels, and Audio Patch Panels, including video monitors etc. ^{[2] [3]}.

[edit] Common equipment

Distribution frame. Electronics Racks. Integrated receiver/decoder (IRD). Frame synchronizers. Audio routers. Video routers. Video servers. Broadcast delays. Subtitling Systems. Audio and Video monitoring tools GPS receivers. Camera control units.

Encoders. Multiplexers Conditional access systems. Signal Scramblers. Transport stream analyzers Fiber optic transceivers. Media Storage. Talkback. RF Distribution. IF Distribution.

Network switches. Routers. Broadcast grade monitors. Waveform monitor. SDI Audio de-embedder. High Power Amplifier. Antenna Tracking Systems.

[edit] See also

• Broadcast engineering
• Data center
• Server room
• Server farm
• Network Operations Center
• Master Control Room
• Transmission Control Room

[edit] References