Held at the National Stadium in Singapore, the opening and closing ceremonies for the Southeast Asia Games relied on a major Optocore system. Designed by event company and long-standing Optocore customer The Show Company (TSC), the installation represented a substantial investment with local distributor Total Solution Marketing (TSM).

Contracted by Sports SG, TSC added eight X6R-FX-8AE/8LO Optocore converters, and three X6R-FX-16MI, two X6R-TP-16MI, five X6R-TP-16LO interfaces, with a central DD8RP repeater to its existing stock. This provided the basis for a fibre backbone at the newly constructed 55.000-seat Singapore Sports Hub. The Show Company’s Joseph Gan confirmed that, since the company’s existing DD32 devices (integrated with Yamaha consoles) remained ‘rock solid’ after many years, the decision to adopt an Optocore network was a simple one: ‘Optocore is a very stable and easily expandable system – ideal for large-scale deployment such as this,’ he says.

‘The scale and the importance of the audio support for the games made it mandatory to have a large dual redundant ring system as nothing is allowed to fail.’ All 18 devices were connected in the loop, including 11 X6R-FX devices, set in 11 locations around the stadium.

The entire audio system set-up was based on Optocore devices as the main frame, and all audio signals in the stadium (amplifiers, amplifier remote, wireless mics, band mics…) were routed through the Optocore network.

With Jon Sim and Desmond Fong project managing, six of the X6R-FX devices were located in the control room, receiving AES3 signals from the main  Lake rack processors and analogue signals from a back-up Lake rack. Both racks were fed by Avid Profile racks. ‘Signals were then distributed through the network to all locations where we picked up the AES3 signals and analogue signals to the amplifiers,’ Gan explains. In addition to feeding audio signals to the power amplifiers, Ethernet from Optocore was also used to control them. This, in turn, fed the Nexo STM line array system used for the Games.

The installation was supported by Optocore Applications Engineer Michal Micka, who carried out on-site training. ‘One thing that we loved was the fact that the amplifier remotes could also be connected to the LAN port of the X6R devices,’ Gan adds. ‘The Optocore network was rock solid and we had zero glitches.’

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