“LaON Technology has the first 5G wireless intercom on the market”, David Lois (Broadcast Solutions)

The Genie intercom system, which operates in the 5 GHz UNII band, along with the new panels and the Dante/AES67 audio interface are some of the new features that David Lois, Southern European Sales Director at Broadcast Solutions, European distributor of LaON Technology, stands out for his participation in ISE 2024.

With more than seventeen years of activity in the intercom market, the South Korean manufacturer LaON Technology, whose equipment is sold in the European market Broadcast Solutions, has shown at the twentieth edition of ISE one of the most innovative products in its portfolio: the first 5G wireless intercom of the market.

David Lois, Director of Southern European Sales at Broadcast Solutions, emphasizes that one of the differentials of LaON Technology “is the making your own audio chip, which has allowed it to develop the first 5G wireless intercom system on the market, in which they have expanded hardware panels, both desktop and stationary.

This new system is made up of the base station Genie hybrid BS1000, which can support up to seventy wireless base stations in full-duplex mode, “and which can expand its coverage with up to 66 antennas in a single device, to transmit and receive the wireless signal from the packs, and cover a large space - explains Lois. Each antenna can support up to 128 packs”.

Another novelty that professionals have been able to see at the LaON stand at ISE 2024 is a Genie system with different panels, eight and sixteen keys; of dessert four and sixteen keys, and two 32 channel rack units.

As David Lois points out, “this IP intercom not based on a matrix but in connections peer-to-peer; As you add panels you also add more channels.”

In this sense, Genie Solo offers up to 188 beltpack connections, with 70 communication channels full-duplex with a BS1000 base station, and Genie Trio provides up to 564 beltpack connections, with 210 full-duplex communication channels with three BS1000 base stations.

Lois highlights that, in addition to the panels, this LaON Technology system has wired packs, especially useful for camera operators stationed in a studio.

“A large part of the system, such as the bodypacks and remote antennas,” he explains, “are simply configured from the base station, while in the case of the panels it is done through software, which can also be used to monitor the system.”

In addition to all the Ethernet connections of the panels, “the system has a módulo Matrixless Digital IP intercom of I/O signals for Dante and AES67. Finally, there is another rack unit module called WAN Link, which connects two remote points of the intercom system through the Internet.”

LaON technology is widely used in production companies, broadcast, TV, theaters, sporting events, musicals, etc. and “at a quality-price level, it is one of the best intercom systems currently on the market,” concludes Lois.