VANCOUVER, BC, Canada – Audinate's Dante played a key role the Winter Olympics. A network of more than 100 Dante-enabled devices transported the audio signals throughout the opening and closing ceremonies at BC Place Stadium, the first time an Olympics had its opening ceremony indoors.
Dante was used in six Lab.gruppen PLM10000Qs as Dante transmitters. Three transmitted the six main audio signals; three others transmitted the same six signals for redundancy. The signals were distributed via Dante to 104 Lab.gruppen PLM10000Q/PLM14000 amplifiers mounted on trusses in the air. All received the Dante signals via a fiber optic Ethernet network.
Behind the scenes, as Canada's k.d. lang sang a rendition of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" during the Opening Ceremony, and Bryan Adams and Nelly Furtado performed a song called "Bang the Drum," Audinate's Dante networking delivered low latency uncompressed audio over a standard IP Ethernet network with sample-accurate synchronization.
The PLM amplifiers were driving a total of 96 Clair i-5 speaker cabinets and 96 Clair i-3 speaker cabinets arranged in two concentric rings to cover the entire Vancouver dome.
The whole system was used during the opening and closing ceremonies, and part of the system was used during the medal ceremonies. All 104 Dante enabled PLMs in the air received each audio signal through five paths for maximum redundancy. In total, two million watts of amplification were transmitted over standard gigabit switches.
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