TechTalk: DYWC launches Worldwide Broadcast Enabled by Auza.Net
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DYWC, a popular AM radio station in Sibulan, Negros Oriental, launched the station’s worldwide broadcast on June 13, 2010 during its annual fiesta pontifical mass held in honor of its patron saint San Antonio de Padua. Auza.Net enabled the wordwide broadcast using the same technologies implemented for the local radio station DYRD-AM. Although currently still on test broadcast, it already has received several happy comments from its listeners who are abroad or in other parts of the Philippines.
Station manager Fr. Ramonito Maata and Bishop John F. Du of the Dumaguete diocese invited all listeners worldwide of DYWC’s flagship program ‘Bandilyo’ to tune in to the broadast on its website www.dywc801.com. Listeners from UK, New York, California, Las Vegas, Sydney, Texas, Cavite, Cebu and other places around the world have posted comments on the website expressing their appreciation of DYWC’s worldwide broadcast which has made them feel like they are close to their home province.
Auza.Net used open source software to implement the audio streaming technology on a Linux based CPU. It also used cloud computing technology to implement a very reliable streaming server capable of handling several simultaneous users. Since the streaming server is located in the US, most listeners in the US are able to listen to the broadcast with minimal or no buffering at all.
The whole system is packaged by Auza.Net as a turnkey solution for radio stations who want to implement its very own worldwide broadcast. By using a VPN or virtual private network system, the company is able to remotely manage the streaming CPU allowing the radio station to focus on its broadcasting capability while Auza.Net ensures that the streaming broadcast system is functioning well all the time.
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