ISE 2015: DiGiCo connects its consoles in an Optocore/Broaman network at its partners' booths

With the goal of demonstrating the potential of your system to carry different signal protocols to various locations, DiGiCo has connected its consoles in multiple booths at its booth at ISE 2015 via an Optocore/Broaman network.

The Fiber Optic Network Ring DiGiCo Optocore/Broaman created in ISE 2015 It starts with three digital consoles installed at the company's booth and continues to the Martin Audio, in which a digital interface Optocore DD32R connects speakers from this audio manufacturer via AES EBU. In addition, an Optocore DD4MR located in the Allen & Heath it 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.

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

A technological deployment carried out at the Amsterdam RAI that, as Jaap Pronk stresses, responsible for TM Audio (Booth 7-K175), DiGiCo distributor in the Netherlands, "This year we showed with total transparency. The DiGiCo SD5 Units, SD7, SD9, SD10 and SD11 are connected (some of them together in an Optocore loop) to different stands of 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 multi-rack installed in the DiGiCo exhibition space combines the SD10 units at the same time, SD5 and SD7, "Simulating, for example, a monitor room with live broadcast, a PA audience control table (FOH), -Pronk continues.. At the same time, mixes are sent to new Powersoft amps, Martin Audio and Renkus Heinz, which are located in different places, while the multitrack is copied into an Allen mixing system & Heath who can make a separate mix for another location".

In addition, the Broaman units located in the DiGiCo and Optocore booths "not only act as the tunnel of this ring that we have formed at ISE 2015 -points out this official-, but they are also connected to the video camera and screens of the event headquarters. All of this results in a powerful combination of multiple high-quality video lines, intercom systems and hundreds of audio channels between all these booths, so that, for example, at the Optocore booth you can see and hear what's happening at the DiGiCo booth, and vice versa".

DiGiCo's console is the only one that is manufactured as an OEM Optocore and runs the native protocol 2.21 Optocore. Users can remotely and in real-time view each Optocore interface as part of the DiGiCo/Optocore network and how its 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 installations, as 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".