Vienna State Opera adds Optocore options
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Looking to expand their communications outreach, by the following year they were considering further options provided by Optocore’s partner company BroaMan. This resulted in them purchasing a point-to-point set of Mux22 multi-signal transmission devices, with the new FrameSync8 board. Offering a superior upgrade to traditional frame sync technologies it allowed sync distribution together with eight video channels, IP and serial data.
But the upgrade path was far from complete, and this year the State Opera invested in a complete BroaMan architecture, with a system based on 10 Repeat48WDM, which provide five point-to-point transport systems with 12 video channels, each transported on a single duplex fiber; a Repeat48 electrical-optical media converter, with six SDI-In and six SDI-Out; and six compact Repeat8-NANO to convert SDI to and from fibre. All video is transported on multimode fiber.
“The audio control room has been steadily upgraded over the past 70 years, with devices from many generations and manufacturers - all with their own unique formats, connections and protocols,” says Rovakis. “It is a major challenge for any new device that gets installed as it has to work with the old ones. But BroaMan’s Repeat48's brings a complete tunnelling to the entire Opera.”
He added that since the Opera is under a preservation order, new cables are difficult and expensive - therefore they have to work with a limited amount of space, channels and bandwidth. “This made multiplexing basically the only viable option.”
BroaMan’s technical sales manager, Maciek Janiszewski, concludes: “We have recently noticed huge interest in our solutions for the installation market, specifically in concert halls and theatres. These venues require ultra-fast fiber transport with high flexibility, and lower channel count than in broadcast.
“The BroaMan portfolio fits very well in that regard, offering simple and cost-efficient, yet extremely reliable solutions. The Vienna State Opera video system is based on point-to-point multichannel fiber transport between different locations in the building, and the Repeat48 family is a perfect match for that.”
(Jim Evans)
