AEQ adds a planning tool to Olympia 3

In the face of upcoming sporting events with hundreds of commentary positions in dozens of venues, AEQ has expanded the functionality of Olympia 3 to meet those needs.

AEQ has been manufacturing equipment for audio broadcasting of commentators at major sporting events since 1990. Olympia 3, the third, is now in production. digital commentator system with transmission IP and intercommunication.

Its design objective was to democratize the use of commentary units to be able to use them in basic environments such as mobile units, Off Tube sets, and simultaneous translation systems. No dedicated hardware needed as a source and origin of signals: Any AES67 or Dante equipment interacts with Olympia 3. In addition, its control is done from a simple application.

It was also prepared to integrate it with the intercommunication, 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 commentator position.

In the coming months, several sporting events will take place around the world and for the first time with Olympia 3 it will have to be integrated into large multi-venue audio routing systems, which is why AEQ has considered it necessary to develop planning and exploitation tools that simplify the deployment of systems, and readjustments when there are last minute changes in booking.

From the Olympia 3 “Planner”, the configuration of the entire system is generated, avoiding errors and, above all, the configuration time of each of the teams, including the Olympia 3 CUs or Commentator Units, which in a large event can be many.

AEQ has experience in this type of tools from more than a decade working with Olympia in the largest events on a global scale. But Olympia 3 has a different work environment, with AoIP connectivity. The new planning tool is capable of working simultaneously with headquarters with positions from the previous generation Olympia, with point-to-point digital connectivity, and other headquarters 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 X_CORE routers that are used in the biggest events. To current AoIP Dante cards controllable with Dante Controller y Dante Domain Manager, cards have been added AoIP Ravenna, compatible with SMPTE ST 2110-30/31 with control protocol NMOS.