The Matrix solutions

Published Monday 21 April 2008 at 11:15

RTS Digital Intercoms has supplied a Cronus Digital Matrix to Glyndebourne Opera House as the centrepiece of a new integrated communications and paging system.

The new system provides flexible paging to multiple zones and integrates production communications and 85 radio belt packs covering the entire site.

Simon Yapp, head of audio visual and sound at Glyndebourne Opera House together with his colleague Keith Benson, head of lighting, needed to find a solution to replace the opera house’s old paging system. The new solution needed to not only replace the original paging system with 16 zones, but offer increased flexibility without throwing away the existing cable infra-structure and speaker system which were still serviceable.

Due to the issues of support for the old system, a key factor was that the system would have ongoing support for the future. The new installation also had to provide the switching necessary for the paging and artist calls, relay closures plus five user stations. The Cronus digital matrix is a modular system which can grow from eight ports (users) to 128 ports.