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05/2007

AES Vienna: DELEC Intercom on Course for Growth

German Intercom Experts Announce a Successful Start in 2007

Göllheim, in May 2007: DELEC, Germany’s manufacturer of digital intercom systems and member of SALZBRENNER STAGETEC MEDIAGROUP, keeps growing. The company from the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate already now expects an outstandingly successful business year 2007, said managing director Donald Dilocker at this year’s AES in Vienna. Reasons include a very good order trend on the theatre market and a steady boom on the key broadcasting markets in Germany and Europe.

In the theatre area, DELEC just completed a prominent project for the municipal theatre of the city of Gera (Thuringia, Germany): After several months of overall refurbishment, the theatre reopened in the end of April. The stage management system installed in Gera is based on a powerful ORATIS system by DELEC mounted on a 9-U mainframe. Special requirements were massive logic circuits for controlling the optical signalling via ORATIS. The theatre had asked for eight freely configurable groups for managing their about 90 red-light loops. Thanks to the IcconXP logic module which is part of ORATIS’ configuration software, the implementation of this requirement was rather simple: “IcconXP is an easy-to-use GUI Software module that makes setting up logical circuits easy. It provides for simple but extensive control of external functions – from signal functions to prioritised subscriber hierarchies to highly complex studio set-ups” says Dilocker. Also implementing the operating concept of a conventional intercom system with a loop pre-selection option on the subscriber units was as well straightforward. This, too, was a customer requirement that could be accomplished rather quickly and conveniently without any changes to the ORATIS source code using the IcconXP logic module.

In addition, DELEC presented at the AES convention two prominent broadcasting projects for the Bundeswehr (Germany’s Armed Forces) and Germany’s biggest broadcasting authority WDR. The WDR will soon receive a mobile intercom system specifically designed for outside broadcasting use and featuring 15 subscriber units. This system will be put into service when covering the German Protestant Kirchentag held in Cologne early in June with more than 100.000 visitors expected. The decision for DELEC was made because of the open SQL-based system architecture of the ORATIS and the vast number of addressing options. “We did deliver a comparable system to the SWR broadcaster. When the SWR and the WDR did a common production, the WDR were right away very enthusiastic about its flexibility,” resumes Donald Dilocker. After an update to the SWR system, the two systems can now be combined to form an overall system that can even be provided via the ARD device pool to other organisations within the ARD governmental broadcasting association.

The ORATIS system in use at the Bundeswehr is mobile to a certain extent, too: Seven DELEC systems for use at production containers of the army-owned media have been delivered to the Bundeswehr during the first half of the year. In fact, an eighth system had been ordered on the eve of the AES Convention. The containers are equipped with compact ORATIS systems and are used as mobile production studios, for example, on foreign missions. “This project has already been the fourth order placed by the Bundeswehr within a few years—and thus a mark of confidence, which we are particularly happy with,” states Dilocker. But future growth is aimed at on the international broadcasting market, too: “In 2006, we completed the 1400-port intercom system at the new BBC broadcasting centre in London — a true milestone project with high pervasiveness, which has significantly boosted our position on the European market,” he goes on. “This has created an excellent basis for future growth abroad.”