FEED Summer 2021 Newsletter

as signal distribution routes – e.g. to go to the BT Tower, New York office or other worldwide locations. The end result was that we provided about 25 buttons that could cater for 90% of the usage, with deeper engineering expertise only required for the remaining 10% of projects.” Providing this simplicity and power are multiple solutions from TSL. Utilising the TSL Advanced Control System, the customer has complete control via a unified infrastructure, offering immediate access to all devices across the three networks – and thereby avoiding the need for individual sets of control interfaces. Sitting at the heart of the installation is the TSL TallyMan TM1 MK2 1RU, which provides a common platform to universally control all

of the core production equipment, including routers, multi-viewers, vision mixers, cameras, media servers and more. Meanwhile, in the control rooms, the customer has access to both TSL Virtual Panels and hardware control interfaces, making access and routing between the different networked systems fast and intuitive. Hawes says there were no competitors to the TSL solution in terms of platforms that could effectively manage NDI, SDI and ST 2110 routing. “We looked at other, more conventional AV systems, but they didn’t have the power of the TSL system for providing unified control and the ability to manage tallys. We also found the TSL equipment very easy to install and work with and the support from the company has

been superb.” And it’s a testament to the capability of the TSL solution that in-person support has only been required once since the installation was completed. All of which means that the auditorium has been going from strength to strength, says Wilson. As might be expected, the auditorium’s live-streaming capacity has proven to be especially valuable during the past 12 months, including for meetings and discussions with contributors located globally. In fact, says Hawes, “The system’s web interfaces have made it possible to undertake high-level productions involving executives around the world, but have it appear as if they were all being hosted from the main auditorium. It’s another aspect that illustrates quite how versatile these facilities can be.”

THE RESULTING HYBRID PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT PLAYS TO KEY STRENGTHS OF EACH TECHNOLOGY

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