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Enhancing connectivity Ever since its founding more than 25 years ago, North Point Ministries has expanded from its core venue in Georgia. With help from Riedel, it was able to streamline communications in line with its growth
N orth Point Ministries’ Whether in-person or online, over 50,000 people attend services and sermons to receive leadership messages weekly. As the number of locations and services grew, the need to communicate and transfer audio and video across multiple locations became more essential. North Point hosts two main services every Sunday at all eight campuses, as well expansive eight campuses spread out from its main worship centre at distances ranging from 20 to 40 miles. as unique settings for preschool, elementary, middle-school and high-school students. To support all of these events, North Point needed to connect its remote campuses with a single, reliable system to support both independent and combined services at each site. Linking up the campuses Addressing this challenge, North Point made the decision to adopt Riedel Communications’ intercom and signal distribution solution, replacing an older system. The new Riedel system, comprising four Artist frames across three campuses, 26 2300 Series SmartPanels, six 1200 Series SmartPanels, 56 Bolero wireless beltpacks, 11 antennae and a Performer digital partyline, immediately improved audio quality. Riedel Connect IP VoIP interfaces link the remaining campuses to the central Artist frame, thus enabling precise control over communication “MediorNet TDM allowed us to be the most flexible and cost- effective per- channel solution”
Effective communication is essential for coordinating services at each site
easy conversion between IP, SDI and HDMI signals, granting convenient access to sources and displays. Within a VirtU 32 frame, 21 MuoN devices – along with other COTS switches – handle signal conversion and processing, including up/ down/cross conversion of HD and UHD. MicroN intelligent signal interfaces support MADI for efficient audio channel management, ensuring synchronised audio and video delivery across campuses during concurrent services and events. A significant solution “While our intercom upgrade with Riedel systems had a significant and positive impact on the many people involved in services and events, MediorNet allowed us to combine our campuses on a single connected system,” says Matthew Drury, production systems engineer at North Point Ministries. “As a routing solution, MediorNet TDM proved to be the most flexible and cost-effective per-channel solution for interfacing video signals with a large number of audio sources in a single venue, while being able to connect multiple venues within a single campus. Moreover, it provided the processing capabilities we needed to align multiple signals at each site to the same message,” he concludes.
within the production team, working from anywhere. During the pandemic, North Point utilised the flexibility of the intercom system to host outdoor services and events. By extending the installed intercom system to a temporary outdoor venue using a network switch, engineers facilitated safe gatherings for church members and maintaining connectivity. The Riedel MediorNet system, which incorporates audio embedding and de-embedding, frame sync, frame delay and multiviewing, serves as the primary bridge between audio and video systems at each campus. Audio and video travel between campuses over dark fibre on a SMPTE ST 2110 routing network. To manage this network, the North Point engineering team converted three control rooms to sit natively in the SMPTE ST 2110 environment. Eight FusioN IP converters at the edge enable
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