Out and About in Austin

Events in Austin
Although there's plenty of live music in the Live Music Capitol of the World, be sure to check out some of these other events while you're in Austin.

1^st Annual Texas Great Grape Stomp-Off Championship
Sept. 20
8484 Hwy 46W, New Braunfels
Winning participants from each of the 22 vineyards on the Texas Wine Trail will come together for a Texas-sized showdown to determine the best grape stomp team in the state.
www.vintageoakstexas.com

The Capital One Bank Pecan Street Festival
Sept. 20-21
Musicians, food vendors, artists and craftspeople turn Sixth Street, originally named Pecan Street, into a lively street fair.
www.oldpecanstreetfestival.com

Old Gruene Market Days
Sept. 20-21
Nearly 100 vendors offer uniquely crafted items collectibles and packaged Texas foods in the Gruene Historic District. Market hours are 10am-5pm. Free admission.
www.gruenemarketdays.com

DinoLand Exhibit
Ongoing
Zilker Botanical Garden
More than 30 life-sized dinosaurs will reside in their "natural habitat," the new Escarpment Trail. Zilker Botanical Garden hosts special weekend festivals during the 3-month exhibit, which includes fun and educational activities for the entire family, entertainment from DinoMan and Dino George, dino lectures and docent-led school tours along the exhibit trail.
www.zilkergarden.org

Product Peeks

APT Worldnet Oslo Module
Linear/PCM audio option
Booth 618
The Worldnet Oslo is now available with a linear audio module offering uncompressed audio quality over both IP and T1 links. The Linear/PCM audio option is in addition to the existing MPEG L2 option and the pro-grade, low delay Enhanced apt-X coding utilized in hundreds of STLs and studio links throughout the country. Also, APT's codecs now fully support SIP and SDP protocols. SIP ensures interoperability between audio codecs from different manufacturers and enables the negotiation of traffic across firewalls and external networks. With SIP and SDP on all the Worldnet Oslo audio multiplexers, APT’s product range is now fully compliant to the N/ACIP standard set out by the European Broadcast Union.

Wideorbit WO Account Pro
Sales management software
Booth 425
An entirely Web-based application that provides contact management, customer information, sales manager dashboards, reports, account history, and other key information for account reps and sales managers, WO Account Pro is tightly integrated with WO Traffic, providing two-way real time information exchange and transaction updates. WO Account Pro is the foundation of Wideorbit's sales suite, providing a single system that addresses all the needs of media sales professionals.

Barix Technology BCL Software
Solid-state player application
Booth 327
Barix has developed solid-state player functionality for its range of Audio over IP devices using Barix’s powerful open source BCL (Barix Coding Language) software. Customers in the radio broadcast and professional audio industries can now use Barix Exstreamer audio decoders and Annuncicom intercom/VoIP devices in the studio or at a receive point as a cost-effective solution for reliable, high-quality audio playback.

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