Built within a 14th-century convent in Rennes, Le Couvent des Jacobins is a new convention centre on the French circuit. Together, its Riedel Artist digital matrix intercom system, Performer digital partyline, Bolero wireless intercom system, and Riedel SmartPanels enable flexible communications throughout the large-scale facility and handle the multipath reflections that naturally occur throughout the site’s stunning architecture.
Based on the SMPTE 2110-30 (AES67) AoIP standard and robust wireless technology, the system is effectively future-proofed. ‘Working with Riedel’s wired and wireless communications solutions, we’ve been able to interconnect different spaces and their various events over a single network architecture,’ explains Stage Manager, Thomas Legros. ‘The installation provides the reliable and scalable communications system we need. And, given Riedel’s expertise in real-time media networks, we’re confident that it will help us to meet future communications and signal transport requirements.’
Le Couvent des Jacobins convention centre features 1,000-seat, 500-seat and 300-seat halls, plus 4,000sq-m of exhibition space and 25 committee rooms located around the historic building and its modern extension. The technical audiovisual design was conceived by Vincent Taurisson on behalf of the scenography agency Architecture & Technique and blends modern-day technology with Gothic and modern architecture. Fibre-optic connectivity, soundproofing and ultra-high-performance video broadcasting equipment are integrated throughout the facilities.
The Riedel solution gives Le Couvent des Jacobins the benefit of clear communications with flexibility enabled by deployment over a decentralised IP network. The addition of Bolero wireless technology to the Artist system, SmartPanels, and Performer digital partyline system helped to address the many requirements of the centre’s various rooms and meeting halls.
‘Riedel intercom is now part of the furniture in our new convention centre, making stage managers’ lives so much easier and enabling very agile programming,’ says Le Couvent des Jacobins Productions Director, Laurent Knobloch-Bard. ‘We really enjoy running such a reliable, easy-to-configure communication system in our facilities. We very quickly got used to the user-friendly wireless packs and SmartPanels – and the immense convenience they bring to our daily work. We cannot imagine how we’d manage our productions without such a great communications tool.’
‘We are really proud to see how rapidly our communications systems were adopted in this wonderful convention centre,’ adds Riedel France & Africa General Manager, Franck Berger. ‘Our new Bolero wireless technology shows again its unique assets on this project, where its integration with Artist and Performer digital partyline system result in a very solid communications infrastructure.’
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