Latin America. AEQ has been manufacturing equipment for the audio broadcast of commentators at major sporting events since 1990. OLYMPIA 3, the third Digital Commentator System with IP transmission and intercom, is now in production.
His design goal was to democratize the use of commentator units to be able to use them in basic environments such as mobile units, Off Tube sets, and simultaneous translation systems. No need for dedicated hardware as a source and source of signals: Any AES67 or Dante equipment interacts with Olympia 3. Its control is done from a simple application.
It was also prepared to integrate it with intercom systems, being able to work as an intercom user terminal: One of its channels can work as a user panel of intercom systems, both in the Setup phase, and live, if there is a coordinator in the position of commentator.
In the coming months several very large events, continental and worldwide, will be covered, for the first time with Olympia 3, which has to be integrated into large multi-site audio routing systems so it has been considered necessary to develop planning and exploitation tools that simplify the deployment of the systems, and readjustments when there are last minute changes in booking.
From the "Planner" of Olympia 3, the configuration of the entire system is generated, avoiding errors and especially the configuration time of each of the teams, including the Cus or Olympia 3 Commentator Units, which in a large event can be many.
AEQ has experience in this type of tools, having worked for more than a decade on the previous Olympia system in the largest events on a global scale. But Olympia 3 has a different working environment, with AoIP connectivity. The new planning tool is capable of working simultaneously with sites with positions of the previous generation Olympia, with point-to-point digital connectivity, and other sites with the current Olympia 3 with AoIP Dante / AES 67 connectivity.
At the same time, to make the connection with the AoIP standards of the different users more flexible, additional cards have been developed for the routers X_CORE used in the largest events. To the current AoIP Dante cards controllable with Dante Controller and Dante Domain Manager, AoIP Ravenna cards have been added, compatible with SMPTE ST 2110-30/31 with NMOS control protocol.
