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The control room at the Burgtheater in Vienna with SSL control surfaces linked to additional components via Audinate Dante networking.

Dante Helps Elevate Performances At The Burgtheater In Vienna

National theater of Austria that hosts nightly performances as well as morning rehearsals equipped with audio-over-IP system utilizing Dante networking working with SSL System T consoles and more.

The Burgtheater in Vienna, the national theater of Austria that originally opened in 1741 and annually hosts nightly live performances as well as rehearsals for different performances each morning, has been outfitted with a new audio-over-IP sound reinforcement and communications system utilizing Audinate Dante audio networking in a project by system designer TSAMM.

“The support staff had already changed the cabling throughout the theater several years before the installation of category cable and fiber,” explains Mario Reithofer, director, TSAMM. “Therefore, the transition from analog to AoIP went very smoothly. Still, we had to remake almost 2,000 cable connections.”

The redundant Dante system consists of two main Cisco switches that connect over fiber to nine racks that host secondary switches for the audio equipment. Each rack has its own primary and secondary switch to connect audio devices to the Dante network.

Two Solid State Logic System T control surfaces and two remote surfaces connect to three SSL System T processors (two redundant for evening performances, one single for rehearsals) and more than 40 I/O devices. The power of the SSL processors coupled with the stability of the Dante system enables a low audio latency of 2.8 milliseconds over the entire signal path.

The system design supports the rapid changeover between performances, as a single button press loads the complete show on the System T. All 796 physical I/O endpoints in the entire Burgtheater are connected to the system, which has been expanded several times by simply adding more endpoints.

“The Burgtheater’s top priorities for their new audio system were security and reliability,” concludes David Müllner, head of Audio and Multimedia at the Burgtheater. “Dante’s robust monitoring and user access controls, combined with the fully redundant system architecture, made sure the audience heard every word.”

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