Radio France awards contract to T+M for the supply and complete installation of a new central router for their transmission complex in Paris. The public broadcaster thereby signals its trust in the German System House for a crucial heart implantation in its Maison de Radio.

Grant of the overall contracts followed from three separate EU tenders, subsequent to an earlier prequalification contest. The awarded contract lots include the supply of a Lawo NOVA73 Double-Star Router with a total capacity of 8192x8192 inputs/outputs, the complete new cabling installation of all interconnected control rooms and the system integration in the two rack rooms. A total of more than 30 Km of cable will be laid to connect 8 decentralised patch panels (NRAs) to the system heart. The work is spread over 8 floors, 10 NRAs and includes the wiring of over 1000 Infra+ patch panels.

The Lawo NOVA 73 Router is a double redundant configuration and is likewise connected with the 32 Lawo DALLIS Concentrators via a redundant-configured  MADI Fibre Network. These are located in the 10NRAs, the "Teleport" Post transfer room on the roof of the 8th floor and the disaster tolerant configured rack rooms POP B and POP F in the cellar of the Maison de Radio. The router is configured as a "Double Self Healing Star" (DSHS). In the event of a fault condition, automatic re-routing via 32 additional MADI tie lines ensures continual communication between the two core routers. The current construction consists of 110 AES/EBU I/Os and 24 external MADI connections to the DHD On-Air studios.

A total of 70 rack cabinets will be installed, wired and commissioned in the two equipment rooms, POP B and F.

Execution time for the project will last from February to September 2006.