When a major financial institution’s new auditorium needed a unified control structure for presentations, TSL Products provided a powerful, easy-to-use solution
he adoption of IP-based connectivity has been big news in both broadcast and professional AV for many years now. Familiarity with the new
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networking technologies and the ongoing need to support legacy formats have led some customers to move ahead with all-IP environments. Consequently, it’s not surprising there has also been a strong trend towards the creation of hybrid facilities that can accommodate – for example, SDI alongside new IP-based technologies like NDI and ST 2110. This last-named approach is exemplified by an installation undertaken at a UK facility, owned by a major investment bank and global financial services company. The project focused on a newly built auditorium intended for a wealth of presentations – ranging from conventional in-person events, to live-streamed fireside chats. This called for AV systems and networks consultancy, Kromers, to deliver a control infrastructure that could provide top flexibility for both in- house teams and external clients. Christopher Hawes, principal at Kromers, recalls that the client’s multimedia team was going down a
more “tried and trusted” route when the team came on-board, which involved a closed ecosystem based around products from one vendor. “We encouraged them to look further afield and test some of the new solutions out there, including those that could work with NDI and ST 2110.” Ultimately, it was decided the best course of action was to bring SDI, NDI and ST 2110 together, making it easy for users to select between any source and have “all the magic happen in the background”.
The resulting hybrid production environment plays to key strengths of each technology, including the use of NDI to select and provide access to control room monitors, SDI to enable connectivity to HD cameras and graphics systems, and ST2110 to provide connectivity and management of standards- compliant cameras and other devices in conjunction with Sony’s IP Live System Manager (LSM). SIMPLICITY AND POWER A design of such complexity was always going to require a powerful, easy-to-use control system. “It had to provide the kind of functionality the customer was using most of the time on a day-to-day basis,” says Kromers system designer, Andrew Wilson. “We set up dedicated pages to allow the selection of different sources, as well
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