Sierra Automated Systems is a privately held company, founded in 1988 by Ed Fritz and Al Salci in Burbank California.

Today, Sierra Automated Systems has a complete product range of digital audio network routing, mixing, console control, and integrated intercom and talkback systems. The Company’s equipment is in use by hundreds of broadcasters and networks, in major, medium, and small markets.

Sierra Automated Systems’ first major product was the Sierra Automated Systems 32000 Routing Distribution System, the broadcast industry’s first summing audio router. The legacy Sierra Automated Systems 32000 still in use and still supported today. Some of the original launch customers are still re-ordering the 32000 for new facilities.

Over the years, Sierra Automated Systems router solutions evolved into what is now a completely digital based system expandable up to many thousands of channels, with multiple router frames connected together via fiber.

In 2003, Sierra Automated Systems introduced the Rubicon Digital Broadcast Console Control Surface, integrating broadcast on-air and production mixing into an already industry-accepted routing and mixing system. The new system was dubbed the Sierra Automated Systems Connected Digital Network, which now incorporates three mixing surfaces, three router solutions, and a wide range of communications and control accessories.

The Sierra Automated Systems Connected Digital Network now has an impressive list of users, from top-10 multi-station New York and Los Angeles big group facilities to smaller network program originators.