FEATURE: INTERCOMS AND PAGING
2) COMBINING MATRIX AND PARTYLINE FOR SMALL, MEDIUM-SIZED VENUES Addressing the desire for what RTS senior sales manager Nico Lewis describes as “more intelligent point-to- point and addressable communication” is the RTS Zeus III LE+, a compact matrix intercom with 16 ports and a dual-channel partyline
interface. “Now small and mid-sized theatres can install a matrix and integrate a partyline system with real full duplex point-to-point communication,” says Lewis. ASL Intercom has also
‘Paging and
intercom are two separate things – although you often want to combine the functionality’ Johannes G Rietschel, Barix
invested considerable time and energy into combining partyline and matrix functionality, resulting in the development of its Digital Series products. Susan McLohon, sales & marketing director of ASL Intercom, highlights the incorporation of daisy-chaining capability: “ASL digital allows a daisy-chain of eight stations whereby each station can be assigned to different groups. This allows the user to pull a Cat5 cable in one direction and [gives the user the opportunity to] connect anyone (eg ‘follow sports’, ‘dimmer city’, ‘amp city’) along the way.” Biamp Systems, meanwhile,
describes its Vocia DSP architecture as a “fitting solution” for applications such as 500-1,000-capacity multipurpose community hall/ performance spaces – especially when deployed in combination with the AVB- ready Tesira scalable media
The Deutsches Schauspielhaus theatre in Hamburg is undergoing a renovation programme that has already entailed the specification of an RTS 32 x 32 Cronus matrix, multiple KP-12 keypanels, and UIO-256 interfaces to ensure trouble-free communications between stage manager, cast and crew
system. TJ Adams, product manager for public address systems at Biamp, explains: “Vocia provides all of the paging station options, telephone paging and pre-recorded scheduled announcement capabilities for a higher-end facility of this type. The Vocia-Tesira system combination can also be used in certain regions of the world as the primary voice evacuation system, as well as for non-emergency type paging. [Tesira can be
employed to] manage all of the conferencing requirements, room combining for ballrooms, general audio processing, EQ and large channel counts of audio matrices that are generally required in these venues.”
3) INTERCOM FOR TRAINING FACILITIES... AND MORE Newly selected by Southampton Solent University for use in its OB vehicle, which is primarily used to media train students, is
Trilogy Communications’ new Messenger intercom, which was debuted at CABSAT 2013. A single Messenger matrix can be expanded at any time to 16 or 24 panel/four wire ports and up to four channels of analogue telephone interfacing. Underlining the move towards IP-based operation, larger applications may be approached with the interconnection of multiple Messenger matrices via the optional IP gateway over any standard network.
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