Montreux: Faster, More Digital, Higher Quality
Success 050.5993/94/95 Montreux: Jean-Paul Chabert Cédric Rolli Pierre-Yves Nussbaum How Jean-Paul Chabert discovered R&M quality Faster, More Digital, Higher Quality Jean-Paul Chabert is responsible for the coordination of technology in buildings as represen tative of the Office for Real Estate, Buildings and Sports. He imposes tough requirements on infrastructure. Of course, the network components also have to be reliable and deliver the best possible performance to ensure trouble-free transmission. Chabert therefore always scrutinizes A one, a two… a one, two, three… The moment international jazz stars start their products involving stage and event equipment somewhat more closely. That is how he came about screwing apart a connector from Neutrik, an audio equipment manu- sessions in Montreux, every note, every image is recorded. Today, every second facturer, one day. He wanted to see the reasons for the good, low-noise signal transmission. Inside he discovered a Cat. 6 module from R&M. The quality craftsmanship delighted Chabert straight away: “A top product. I was immediately convinced by the IDC technology from R&M. It is ideal of the legendary concerts is broadcast throughout the world in real time for our needs in the concert business because it is vibration proof. Afterward, I examined all the R&M products and I can verify that the copper and fiber optic products are of first-rate quality.” and is digitally archived. R&M helped the jazz city build up a network for the task. 050.5991
Montreux was already an internation- that has been installed in the multipur- The management of the Montreux Mu- to network the CDC longer-term with Cédric Rolli from CR Network plans all events. It also provides direct con- ally known resort and conference city pose hall since 2011. R&M supplied es- sic & Convention Center had very limit- other regional technology centers such custom network cabinets for every big nections to the key hotels on site and back in the 19 th century. The city on the sential components for the local data ed time to devote to cabling moderni- as the facilities of EPFL in Lausanne, of event. He takes a top-of-rack approach other partners. External customers can shores of Lake Geneva gained an inter- network on behalf of the city of Mon- zation because it constantly has events CERN in Geneva and of the Ad Valem to designing the network architecture make use of the CDC as well. national reputation with the Rose d’Or treux. Technical coordinator Jean-Paul to organize. It was therefore vital that satellite station in Le Bouveret. featuring 52 distribution nodes. Pierre- Festival. The Montreux Jazz Festival Chabert explained why the city settled the installation be as fast as possible Yves Nussbaum, Head of IT and Audio- In a video interview posted on the was established in 1967 and attracts on R&M: “The cabling has to meet and that the center have a reliable part- visual Technology at the Montreux Mu- Internet homepage of the municipal- 200 000 visitors a year. Today Montreux the very highest quality requirements.” ner able to adjust to the requested sic & Convention Center, considers it ity of Montreux (www.commune-de- has a top convention center and is home Only high-end products would do for deadlines. R&M complied with both important to have a clear-cut, well-con- montreux.ch), Mayor Laurent Wehrli to countless cultural festivals. current and future broadcasting appli- requirements thanks to quick mounting ceived network design. The availability made the following comments: “The cations. Chabert said there were big technology, flexible logistics and cus- rate of the CDC corresponds with the new communication center enables The networking of Auditorium quality differences in fiber optic technol- tomer-oriented project management. requirements of the TIER III standard. services with which we can set our- Stravinski ogy in particular and they directly affect Fiber-optic technology and shielded selves apart from the competition. With The premier concert hall of the festival, network performance and the quality of Communication and Data Center copper cabling from R&M ensure ex- this new technology and infrastructure, the Auditorium Stravinski in the Mon- digital music broadcasting. Failure safe- in Montreux cellent signal quality in data transmis- we can now position Montreux as a treux Music & Convention Center, is ty was a further criterion for the deci- The trend to digitalization, the archiving sion. Cooling is done in a low-energy top international venue for this sector, being gradually updated with the latest sion. As Jean-Paul Chabert said: “When project and ambitious multimedia ob- way, with water from the Lake Geneva just as Claude Nobs did with his jazz technical advances. A fiber-optic net- a concert is underway, the equipment jectives required the city to make yet pump station. festival decades ago. That helps us at- work infrastructure is one such advance simply has to operate.” another major investment: the installa- tract new clients to Montreux time and tion of its own Communication and The Communication and Data Center again for congresses and for cultural Data Center, aka CDC. Similar to the in- (CDC) of the Convention Center in Mon- and art events.” n frastructure of the convention center, treux is used by the Montreux Comedy the CDC had to satisfy the toughest Festival (MJF) and a number of other 5000 hours of jazz concerts requirements. That is why the city of partners. It performs myriad functions, now part of UNESCO Montreux turned once again to R&M to which are placed in different parts of World Heritage supply the passive infrastructure. 050.5992 the central computer room. In this way Since the Montreux Jazz Festival was founded the CDC supports the city data net- in 1967, over 5000 hours of concerts by over 4000 bands and artists have been digitalized The CDC went into operation in De- “It is the most significant legacy works and the security and building live and stored on video and audio tapes in cember 2013. It is right on the shores of music history.” installations at the Convention Center. It the storage system of EPFL (Swiss Federal of Lake Geneva. The CDC uses fiber- networks telecommunication, Internet Institute of Technology in Lausanne). Jazz producer and musician Quincy Jones optic links based on 10 Gbit/s and talking about the Montreux Sounds and IT providers with each other. The Digital Project and the archive of festival Old recordings may well be able to be called 090.6421 up in future without any trouble thanks in large WDM (wavelength division multiplex- founder Claude Nobs. CDC supplies internal and external part to the CDC in Montreux. ing) that attain transmission speeds of TV, radio and Internet broadcasting and Walter Kurzen | R&M Switzerland 050.5990 up to 50 Gbit/s. They can be employed offers a backup option for the data from [email protected]
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