HME, Clear-Com Look To The Future

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Apr 22, 2011 10:44 AM, By Jack Kontney

One year after the join up communications giants HME and Clear-Com , the arch management team of the two companies took time to look back on their initial year together. Mitzi Dominguez of HME and Matt Danilowicz of Clear-Com have changed quickly from ideas to action, merging such factors as technologies, core competencies and corporate cultures whilst maintaining the eccentric rope imprints of the two firms.

"We knew this would be a great fit," mentioned HME's Dominguez. "We work in a lot of the same spaces, but in not similar ways. Clear-Com was ample stronger in cabled intercom systems, and you at HME could bring great wireless technology to the table. But what is unequivocally critical is that there are a lot of common values and enlightenment between us. That's because it was such a great marriage."

"There are a few other engaging synergies as well," Danilowicz said. "Clear-Com has always put an stress on pulling the bounds of innovation, whilst HME had created tremendously burly production processes. So, you've got a imaginatively disposed engineering organisation forthcoming together with other organisation focused on high quality of manufacture. The formation of those viewpoints has the future to broach the most appropriate of both worlds to the marketplace. We're all already commencement to see the fruits of that in the initial products we're putting out together as a business."

New products voiced at the NAB Show are being marketed beneath the Clear-Com brand.

"The Clear-Com brand has worldwide approval in the pro audio space," Dominguez said, "so we're gripping the Clear-Com brand. That's not going to be changing."

This may be seen in the initial new product at the show, Clear-Com's HME DX210, a two-channel wireless intercom that is robust, easy to use and may be seamlessly related in to any Clear-Com party-line system. This new chronicle is extended with auto-nulling, relate termination and other features, providing a elementary ascent trail for those adding wireless to existing systems.

Also new is Clear-Com's Tempest 900 digital wireless intercom, a 900MHz movement of the company's Tempest 2400 system. This product was created to offer an substitute to the increasingly swarming 2.4GHz unlawful spectrum. The network operates license-free for U.S. broadcasters and offers a far-reaching operation of functionality fitting for both broadcasters and live opening situations.

Clear-Com moreover voiced Version 2.6 of its Concert AoIP solution, that integrates with the Associated Press ENPS production network by its Concert for Newsroom function. Concert for Newsroom enables margin reporters to verbalise right away to other production team members, inclusive conferencing ability, with the click of a mouse. The Concert for Newsroom answer frees reporters from the dependence on mobile networks, is entirely encrypted and is probably giveaway of latency.

"These are all great examples of what can come about when you work together," Danilowicz said. "That's loyal in product development, but moreover in production and distribution. We have over 400 products, and a lot of them are enablers, complaint solvers that do not sell in outrageous volumes. We're quite seeking forward to using HME in that regard."

In fact, Clear-Com's manufacturing, that had formerly been a blend of in residence and outsourced, is being transitioned to the HME trickery in Poway, CA.

"We transitioned all our production in residence about 15 years ago," Dominguez said. "That unequivocally gives us ample improved manage of our high quality and smoothness times. We're able to obtain products out quicker and make them more reliable."

In conditions of distribution, the merging of HME and Clear-Com caused comparatively small conflict, with scarcely 70 percent of distributors already carrying the two brands at the onset. The firm is moreover relocating in to new markets, diversifying its offerings in to new applications.

"When you talk to broadcasters about their business, you wish them to know that delivering mission-critical audio is in our assignment statement," Danilowicz said. "We are the de facto typical for intercoms in several army projects, inclusive the Predator unmanned aerial vehicle. We're in the order core is to U.S. army in Iraq and Afghanistan. We're here to give a plain infrastructure to our customers, to give the collection they need and can rest on. That is the common prophesy of Clear-Com and HME."