A new partnership will see ASC Amptown System Company (ASC) assuming dedicated dealership for fibre network specialists Optocore and BroaMan in Germany.
Founded in 1973 by Peter Matthes and Ulrich (Uli) Müller as a music store for instruments and large-scale sound reinforcement. Joined by Leif Witte, they have have developed ASC into an experienced media engineering system house, which will exploit Optocore and BroaMan ªwho respectively provide audio and video communication network solutions) in the system integration and live sectors, including musical and theatre production.
‘As a one-stop shop for consulting, installation, integration and service, we rely on leading international manufacturers such as Optocore and BroaMan to ensure the success of our own projects and the best possible solution for the customer,’ confirms Stefan Thomsen, ASC Sales Manager.
Paving the way for the partnership, BroaMan provided a fast-track custom video network solution to meet a specific broadcast client requirement. This demonstrated that, together with Optocore and SANE technology, BroaMan products could deliver significant advantages in a complete advanced fibre infrastructure for video, audio and intercom applications. ASC recognised BroaMan’s ability to broadcast video in high resolution and provide scalable, protocol independent, routing, repeating, transport and distribution of multiple professional video signals.
‘We were eager to assess how BroaMan technical infrastructures could be integrated into future projects and how these solutions would meet challenges for our theatre business, where media networks have to transmit different broadband signals (audio, video and control),’ says Thomsen. ‘Both companies provide key technology in the large scale event, live sound business and broadcast. It has now become an industrial standard to run fibre-optics for transmitting signals to replace the vast amount of copper cabling of the past.
‘We see this new partnership as a logical development. ASC is a system house delivering technical solutions to its clients in terms of media technology, while. Optocore and BroaMan offer the tools to create these solutions; they understand about infrastructure provision, and connectivity to fulfill the installation requirements.’
‘ASC is a well established company, with a great pedigree for delivering high prestige projects,’ says Tine Helmle, director Of Optocore and head of BroaMan. ‘Furthermore it has fantastic outreach and most importantly they completely understand our technologies, and what they can bring to sophisticated media integrations.’
