Cisco Live! 2015 raised an audiovisual challenge to XL Video

XL Video participated in the staging of the Cisco Live event! 2015, held at the MiCo Milano Congressi conference centre in Milan, providing the AV equipment and support that was required for the plenary hall and the 42 Rest areas.

culm Live! is an annual event that targets the IT industry and focuses on technical training and networking. A meeting that brings together thousands of customers and partners, both in Europe and around the world.

Working for marketing agency George P. Johnson, XL Video has been in charge of supplying different video solutions, including projection and control systems, cameras, PPU, as well as all the AV equipment necessary for the realization of this meeting both for the plenary hall and for the 42 Rest areas, some with capacity for 300 people.

Plenary Hall

The plenary sessions were held in a large hall attended by 3.500 present. A main presentation area was built in the center of the room which connected to the, across a walkway, with another demo, Used for product demonstrations and new product introductions. Three areas that were perfectly equipped with speakers so that the sound could reach the entire audience.

When it comes to visual equipment, Around the room, eight screens were installed 10 meters wide in format 16:9. The aim is for the 3.500 To ensure that attendees had an optimal view of all the sessions, so the biggest challenge was to ensure that the screens were placed in the most ideal position so that they could be seen from all angles.

In this way, The screens were numbered and the pairs showed some contents, while the odd ones offered others, all related to the presentations and the action that was taking place on stage.

These contents were supplied by two projectors ship 26K with maximum doubled-up intensity, and they were located on the trusses that were above the central stage. A media server Millum It was used to store and play the video content. This team was chosen for its flexibility to carry out the processes at this event.

likewise, The Barco Encore solution was also used to manage and coordinate the screens and several fiber lines were mounted for the connection of multiple laptops running Keynote and PowerPoint.

Two Cameras Sony HXC-100, Equipped with 86x lenses, were placed in the FOH and at one end of the room were located two HXC-100s RF controllers mounted on pedestals that were located on the center stage.

There were also four Bradley CamBall 2s, two in a display in the public area and two in the upper area, On the trusses. These were routed in two PPUs, one Panasonic HS400 and an HS 450. The Panasonic HS400 mix was in charge of powering the television streaming that was projected on Cisco's website.

XL also supplied six high-end LCD displays. Samsung to locate around the room.

Rest areas

In addition to the plenary hall, XL Video had to work in an environment that had 42 resting areas, which was quite a challenge. The projectors had to be synchronized in the exact positions so that they were aligned with the screens.

XL custom-built switch boxes for each of the seating areas that provided an intuitive, easy-to-use interface through the button boxes that allowed them to quickly and seamlessly connect their laptops and other devices into the installed AV systems. These systems were dubbed by an RCPXL-10.

In this way, These rest areas were equipped with 37 Projectors, 18 screens of 80 and 90 Inch, 91 Transmission Systems Lightware HDbase-T DVI, 12 Lightware DVI arrays, 110 monitors 23 Inch, 55 Image Pro II/PDS switchers and 55 XL Video RCPXL Controllers.

XL also supplied 152 Led panels 3,9 mm of Unilumin with which a strip of 38 LEDs was formed×1 meters on which images and information of the events were displayed, thanks to a Pandora Box media server system from Coolux.

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