Sunrise Communications, a cable TV and high-speed Internet provider, recently expanded the Sunrise Cable Network with a new cable headend installation of the LEIGHTRONIX MINI-T-NX video server.

Sunrise Cable Network (SCN) is a network of cable television channels provided to small communities in northern Michigan by Sunrise Communications. SCN provides community programming featuring local government meetings as well as K-12 news and events captured and edited by students. Sunrise currently operates multiple cable television headends and has just completed the fourth installation of a new community channel for the town of Atlanta. more

LEIGHTRONIX introduces SchoolStream.TVâ„¢, a Web media hosting and streaming video-on-demand service for K-12 districts. SchoolStream.TV helps local educational districts deliver video programs on the Internet with an easy and affordable system for uploading, managing, and streaming video programming.

SchoolStream.TV delivers video programming with the convenience of video-on-demand to a worldwide audience and is the perfect tool for providing entertainment, information, and even training and instructional videos. Serving the students, faculty, administration, and the community, SchoolStream.TV helps K-12 schools offer hundreds of hours of Web video programming for and about their districts. more

Holt, MI. — June 8, 2009 — The LEIGHTRONIX UltraNEXUS-SDI™ video server and system controller is the newest model in the popular series of NEXUS® specialized video servers and features an all-digital video and audio interface.

A perfect fit for all-digital television operations, the UltraNEXUS-SDI combines SD-SDI video and AES audio with superior MPEG-2 encoding/decoding hardware for crystal clear capture and playback of television programming. The UltraNEXUS-SDI interfaces with SDI signal routing equipment and other on-air resources and delivers content to cable broadcast transmission systems with SDI capabilities. more