Nova Entertainment builds demanding intelligent logic system with Lawo Nova17

AUSTRALIA: Professional Audio Technology has announced it has configured and supplied a large Lawo Nova17 router to the Nova Entertainment group in Brisbane. The system, which consists of a Nova17 Router with an additional Dallis I/O frame, various LCD button panels for monitoring selection and three Lawo KSC.GPIO32 input and output panels, will be used by the network for the switching of its national DAB streams. The new router is also being used as the main audio router for Coles Radio, which the newly rebranded Nova entertainment network supplies nationally.

After a thorough tendering process, the network’s engineering team, led by Sydney chief engineer John Pearce, decided on the Lawo router technology for the project. ‘We chose the Nova17 in the end because we believed that its native features most closely matched the specific project requirements,’ Mr Peace explained. ‘The bang for buck was greater, local and international support was fantastic and the product line and technology was mature.’

Based around a redundancy fail-over design, the engineering team, in cooperation with PAT’s team of engineers came up with a system based on intelligent logic, which not only switches over to another service should the primary service fail, but is also intelligent enough to switch back once the primary service is restored. The system then notifies the engineer in charge should any failures occur.

This was achieved via integrating the main router system with Nova’s existing Kingfisher monitoring/paging system. To provide the engineering staff with a visual system feedback, a series of custom designed VisTools screens provided switching information and level indication as well as alarm screens and general system monitoring selectors. Also included in the system is the MTXCon Scheduler, which allows the network’s engineers to schedule routes of the system well in advance. 

‘This was certainly an exciting project to be involved in,’ said PAT’s technology specialist Alan Liddelow. ‘Rarely do we see customers push the capabilities of a system as far as the Nova engineers have done here. We are delighted to see our customers embrace Lawo’s technology like this and it is without a doubt another fantastic reference site for Lawo and PAT in Australia. Of course we think it is very fitting, that the Nova Entertainment group has decided on a Lawo Nova router – that goes without saying.’

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