The Show Must Go On

An Upstate New York company keeps cables running for the video broadcasting industry.

Posted on 02/29/2024

In the “information age”—when consumers can have endless streams of broadcast content at their fingertips—it’s more important than ever to have cables you can count on. Media outlets rely on Tower Products Incorporated for communication cables that can keep their productions running without interruption. Hannay first partnered with Tower over 30 years ago providing several types of cable storage reels for their communication customers. When Tower needed a high-capacity, durable reel to handle long lengths of a unique hybrid SMPTE fiber optic cable, they turned to Hannay, and the AVF Series of reels was developed.

The AVF-14 is a handheld reel, able to hold up to 350 feet of SMPTE cable, while the AVF-18 is a more robust reel, holding up to 1,000 feet of SMPTE cable, available with wheels, and stackable. A key factor in the development of these reels was precision manufacturing of the cable reel center hub to maintain the critical bend radius of fiber-optic SMPTE cables. They are the only industry cable reels with a hub that allows the pass-through of SMPTE connectors. Both series, along with Tower’s Camplex fiber assemblies, are common on remote production trucks, supporting live college events, sports events, and even the Olympics.

 

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