WHEREAS 2015: DiGiCo connects its consoles in an Optocore/Broaman network at its partners' stands

Aiming to demonstrate the potential of your system to transport different signal protocols to multiple locations, DiGiCo has connected its consoles in multiple booths at its stand at ISE 2015 via an Optocore/Broaman network.

The fiber optic network ring DiGiCo Optocore/Broaman created in WHEREAS 2015 It begins with three digital consoles installed at this company's stand and continues to that of Martin Audio, in which a digital interface Optocore DD32R connects speakers from this audio manufacturer via AES EBU. Besides, an Optocore DD4MR located in the space of Allen & Heath is responsible for copying the multitrack through the MADI protocol, which is also connected to an Optocore X6R AES EBU unit located on the stand Renkus Heinz.

Besides, a second DD32R AES EBU unit installed at the booth Powersoft, along with another in the Optocore space connects this network to a system Broaman MUX22, which in turn links to another MUX22 unit at the DiGiCo stand to close and complete the ring.

A technological deployment carried out at the Amsterdam RAI that, as Jaap Pronk emphasizes, responsible for TM Audio (stand 7-K175), DiGiCo distributor in Holland, “This year we show with total transparency. DiGiCo SD5 drives, SD7, SD9, SD10 and SD11 are connected (some of them together in an Optocore loop) to different stands in the venue. We also have a laptop with multitrack (simulating a live band) connected via a DiGiGrid MGB coaxial MADI interface to the SD10 unit, which in turn connects through Optocore to the SD5 and SD7”.

The multirack installed in the DiGiCo exhibition space combines the SD10 units at the same time, SD5 y SD7, “simulating, For example, a monitor room with live broadcast, an audience control PA table (FOH), -continuous pronk. At the same time, mixes are sent to new Powersoft amplifiers, Martin Audio y Renkus Heinz, which are located in different places, while the multitrack is copied to an Allen mixing system & Heath who can do a separate mix for another location”.

Besides, The Broaman units located in the DiGiCo and Optocore exhibitors “not only act as the tunnel of this ring that we have formed at ISE 2015 -this person points out-, but they are also connected to the video camera and screens at the event headquarters. All of this results in a powerful combination of multiple lines of high-quality video., intercom systems and hundreds of audio channels between all these cabins, so that, For example, At the Optocore stand you can see and hear what is happening at the DiGiCo stand., and vice versa”.

The DiGiCo console is the only one manufactured as an Optocore OEM and runs the native protocol 2.21 Optocore. Users can remotely and in real time see each Optocore interface as part of the DiGiCo /Optocore network and how their X6R pre-amplified microphone can be controlled directly from this console thanks to the fiber connection between the DiGiCo booths.

As Jaap Pronk points out, “DiGiCo together with Optocore offers a connected system that can now be found in many facilities, like in theaters, live events, etc. The key advantage is that it is a fully redundant and synchronous network, without any added latency for each additional unit on the network”.

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