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their airline’s central help desk without incurring roaming fees. “Recent research by the EU revealed that more than a quarter of travellers turn off their phones when travelling to avoid high charges,” says Gostick. “Opening up spare bandwidth to provide centralised customer service frees local staff at the airport and provides the customer with help when they need it, at no cost to themselves.”


5. Full networking is increasingly visible on airport radars The quickening page of airport expansion means that, as Harrison remarks, “massive analogue cabling infrastructure” is no longer an ideal solution given the obvious scaling limitations. Digital networking is therefore rising up the priority list – not least because it can also deliver “cost savings [with] data, audio and video [able to] be put on one network; ease of use for both the end-users and


meeting point between different networking technologies – could have real potential. But as Kirby observes, networking remains subject to a “state of flux”, so the onus is on manufacturers to accept all protocols. Of Renkus, Kirby says “we are designing our products to handle multiple audio protocols. As the final link in the signal chain, we need to be able to receive whatever the system is sending us.”


Dante and CobraNet remain popular choices for airport installs


the system managers; system redundancy using standard network protocols; and system- wide monitoring, both locally and remotely,” he continues. Dante and CobraNet are popular choices for airport


installs, whilst Harrison suggests that AVB could have “a profound impact” in the near-future. It also looks like the new AES67 standard – which was very much the toast of ISE last month and will provide a Layer 3-based


ACTIVE AUDIO is the only company to venture a specific contribution made by airports to its overall business (“approximately 10%,” says technical director Xavier Meynial, who cites the deployment of Active’s RayOn R100 columns at Paris Roissy Airport Terminal 2 among its recent project-stack), but all suppliers cite it as a growing market. The recent project list described


by Biamp alone for installations featuring Tesira, Audia, Nexia or Vocia systems traverses


Copenhagen, Malmo, Hong Kong, Kazan, Canberra and New Delhi, among many others. And given the scope of current airport building programmes, one can expect the BRIC and MINT nations (the latter a more recently-coined neologism referring to the economies of Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey) to loom ever-larger on manufacturers’ order books. But above and beyond its


obvious growth potential, it may be the sheer scale and profile of these projects that confirms why the airport market should never be underestimated. Concludes Meynial: “The market often involves rather large orders, and then there is the fact that airports are frequently quite prestigious places” – meaning, in short, that they can provide an audio system showcase par excellence. www.activeaudio.fr www.barix.com www.biamp.com www.communitypro.com www.renkus-heinz.com





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