TVNZ TALKS BACK WITH TRILOGY

AUCKLAND
Television New Zealand (TVNZ) has purchased Triolgy Broadcast's Commander digital intercom equipment as a replacement for the original Auckland Centre studio talkback and inter-area communication system.

The 180 port Commander matrix, with in-built expansion capable of providing up to 280 ports, will be housed in the main Central Apparatus Room, with the 72 custom and standard control panels utilized in all operational areas of the building. The installation includes desktop panels specifically for the news rooms and edit suites.

The new matrix will be one fifth of the physical size of the previous installation - freeing up vital and required space in the building, and will also take a maximum of three weeks to install.

TVNZ's purchase decision on the intercom system was not finalized by NAB 2002, but a pre-requisite of the tender was that the complete system had to be installed by July 2002. Extensive evaluation of the Trilogy system confirmed Commander as the most comprehensive and cost effective solution to the requirement and due to the tight timescales of the project, Trilogy delivered the units within two weeks of receiving the order from Television Systems Ltd (TSL).

TSL, the chosen systems integrator, is working with Trilogy on the pre-fabrication of the system in Maidenhead, UK. The system will be immediately used for the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, UK and to cover the Louis Vuitton Challenger in Oct 2002.

The tender also looked into the possibility of using VoIP technology in the future - linking Auckland with remote sites - and Trilogy's solution supported this requirement. The Mercury IP Communications System was launched at NAB 2002 and has been installed in top London facility VTR, as well as being proposed in various worldwide operations.

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