L-R: Rob Robinson and David Snipp All change at Stardraw
The software developer has implemented several major changes, including a new CEO and a refocusing of operations
IN MAJOR changes to Stardraw.com’s structure and operation, Rob Robinson is moving from the position of marketing director to CEO with immediate effect. David Snipp, founder of Stardraw.com, vacates the CEO’s chair and becomes a non-executive board director. He remains a major shareholder. At the same time, intellectual property rights associated with the universal control platform Stardraw Control have been acquired by Global Caché, a manufacturer of IP and WiFi-enabling products. As part of this arrangement,
GERMANY MediaMatrix for Franfurt Uni
AS PART of an ongoing renovation project, Frankfurt University has deployed a sizeable Peavey MediaMatrix system across its Riedberg Campus. Consultants Detlef Hartmann and Stephan Mathias of the Hartmann & Mathias Partnership were charged with designing an AV solution that would allow both faculty and students access to a full range of media. Both campuses were equipped with a 10 Gig fibre-optic network backbone, and up to 96 audio channels would be required for a single location on campus – that number would increase to several hundred for the campus as a whole. On top of this, the audio had to be matrixed with video distribution hardware, therefore a flexible solution that could deal with a mix of analogue and digital I/O was required. For the Riedberg Campus, Hartmann and Mathias opted for a Peavey MediaMatrix system. Three distinct
NION projects were deployed over the two buildings: the ISZ, which contains all the large lecture theatres; and the Biologicum, which accommodates a variety of laboratories and classrooms. Each building is a separate network.
For the ISZ , three NION n6s and one NION n3 were deployed along with 13 CAB4n Dante breakout box. For the Biologicum, one NION n6 and
three NION n3s (all 4 nodes in a Peavey XDAB cluster) were installed, along with 17 CAB4ns. An additional NION n3 and two CAB4ns were installed for a smaller project within the Biologicum to cater for some additional meeting rooms. “This is one of the world’s biggest systems with Dante and this technology – and the people at the university are very happy,” says Peavey’s Sebastian Hesse. The head of IT at Frankfurt University believes that MediaMatrix is the future for him; that’s great for us to hear.”n mm.peavey.com
Snipp has been appointed CTO of the Jacksonville, OR, hardware provider. The new structure will see
Stardraw.com focusing on its core business of software tools and services for system design and documentation, and the development of custom (OEM) software solutions for corporate clients. Stardraw.com will continue to support
its existing Stardraw Control products and customers, and this support includes the addition of new drivers as a free service for registered users. n www.stardraw.com
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