CINCINNATI, 6 Feb. 2008. Harris Corp., an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded a contract from broadcast systems integrator Snader and Associates to provide a comprehensive broadcast communications system for the American Forces Network. The American Forces Network delivers news, information and entertainment to almost one million troops worldwide outside of the United States.

Snader and Associates is designing the new broadcast system, which will be installed at the Defense Media Center in Riverside, Calif., and is expected to be completed in the summer of 2008. Under the agreement, Harris will provide broadcast routing, automation, video servers, core processing, and asset management products.

The system includes the first members of the new Harris NEXIO product family -- the NX3601HDI media platform with integrated storage and the NX3601HDX media platform for use on a NEXIO storage area network.

NEXIO AMP pairs a high-performance, high-definition/standard-definition (HD/SD) server architecture with best-in-class content protection. The new system combines the highest levels of I/O, data pathway and storage redundancy with all the features broadcasters have come to expect in NEXIO servers -- including integrated software codec support and automatic up/down/cross conversion.