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Toei Kyoto Studio Park

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Toei Kyoto Studio Park

Phase 1 reopening: Martin Audio products installed for the park-wide system

Experience the atmosphere of Edo period Kyoto at this immersive entertainment park for adults. Visitors can enjoy live performances, street food and cultural experiences against an Edo period streetscape, creating an extraordinary experience that engages all five senses. Martin Audio’s CDD12-WR speakers are installed as part of the sound system, delivering high quality audio throughout the immersive experience.

Renovated Edo-period townscape

Toei Kyoto Studio Park, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2025, has adopted Martin Audio’s CDD speaker system for its “Immersive Live Show,” staged within the Edo period townscape following the first phase of renovations, which reopened in April 2026.

Creating an Immersive Experience with Martin Audio CDD

Prior to the renovation, sound for the shows was primarily operated using portable loudspeakers and analogue equipment. As part of the upgrade, the park transitioned to a fully remote control system, enabling operators to manage the audio remotely. This has improved operational efficiency while providing greater flexibility in responding to on site requirements.

Leveraging the coaxial asymmetric dispersion technology of the Martin Audio CDD series, the system provides efficient coverage across the entire plaza using a relatively small number of loudspeakers. Its characteristic narrowing of the sound dispersion area over distance also helps minimise sound overlap between different areas, allowing independent performance spaces to be established at each show point throughout the townscape.

By creating a more controlled and consistent sound environment, the upgraded system enhances the park’s new immersive experience concept. Unexpected performances can unfold directly in front of visitors, creating a more engaging and immersive live show experience.

Martin Audio “CDD12-WR” main stage speaker

Martin Audio “CDD12-WR” speakers installed throughout the townscape.

The project received sales support from S.C. Alliance Soundcraft Engineering Co., Ltd.

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Emei Mountain’s Huazang Temple Partners with Martin Audio to Elevate Spiritual Practice

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Sacred Chants on the Golden Summit

Emei Mountain’s Huazang Temple Partners with Martin Audio to Elevate Spiritual Practice

Perched at an elevation of 3077 meters, the Golden Summit of Mount Emei is a sanctuary in the clouds, combining breathtaking natural splendor with two millennia of Buddhist tradition. Home to the legendary Four Marvels and the awe inspiring statue of Samantabhadra, it holds Huazang Temple at its spiritual core. Originally constructed during the Han and Jin dynasties, this ancient temple has carried the prayers of generations, preserving timeless wisdom high above the clouds.

To integrate modern acoustic engineering with spiritual reflection, Huazang Temple selected a specialized sound system from Martin Audio. Featuring the C8.1T, VIA2004, CDD12, and PI 12, the new installation allows sacred chants to resonate through the mountain mist, connecting deeply with every visitor.

Bridging Heritage and Acoustic Excellence

Also known as Yongming Huazang Temple, the venue stands as one of the highest Han Buddhist temples in China. Its gilded halls and grand statues embody both majestic solemnity and serene contemplation.

Selecting an audio system for such an iconic site required extensive evaluation and acoustic simulation. Martin Audio was ultimately chosen for its decades of engineering excellence and proven track record in places of worship worldwide. The combination of C8.1T, VIA2004, CDD12, and PI 12 proved ideal for the extreme elevation, frequent fog, and sprawling architecture of the Golden Summit.

Custom Engineering for High Altitude Conditions

Mount Emei experiences volatile weather, low temperatures, high humidity, and heavy cloud cover. Combined with the soaring ceilings and open layout of Huazang Temple, these elements posed severe challenges for sound coverage, clarity, and system stability. The custom Martin Audio solution overcomes these environmental obstacles through coordinated performance:

  • C8.1T Ceiling Speakers: Serving as the core reinforcement, these compact yet powerful speakers suit high ceilings and project sound effortlessly through dense mist. They provide seamless coverage across the main hall without distortion, allowing daily chants and lectures to remain clear and long reverberating. Their robust design handles the mountain’s cold and damp conditions reliably.

  • CDD12 Coaxial Loudspeakers: Deployed in cloisters and side halls, these units use a coaxial design to maintain phase alignment and faithful sound reproduction. They capture subtle details in vocal chants and ritual instruments. Their discreet installation preserves the historic aesthetic while ensuring balanced coverage throughout secondary spaces.

  • PI 12 Monitors: Providing accurate real time feedback for sound operators, these monitors allow fine adjustments during both quiet daily morning prayers and major ceremonial gatherings, keeping the acoustic character warm and solemn.

  • VIA2004 Power Amplifiers: Serving as the system hub, these amplifiers drive and optimize audio signals. Preset modes allow easy transitions between daily rituals and large public assemblies. The built in filtering minimizes ambient noise, delivering a smooth, gentle tone that aids meditation and quiet focus.

A Harmonious Blend of Technology and Spirituality

As morning light illuminates the summit, the tolling bells of Huazang Temple and the soft cadence of morning prayers carry across the peak through the C8.1T speakers. At dusk, as clouds envelop the temple, the CDD12 loudspeakers, VIA2004 amplifiers, and PI 12 monitors maintain a clear, soothing ambient field that blends naturally with the mountain wind.

In this sacred space, technology serves as an extension of spiritual atmosphere. By overcoming complex environmental demands, the audio system allows visitors to experience the calming presence of sacred sound.

Huazang Temple has guarded spiritual peace for centuries. Today, Martin Audio provides the clarity to ensure its timeless voice continues to resonate, connecting history, architecture, and sound high above the clouds.

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Martin Audio Empowers Jing’an Cultural Center’s Performing Arts Acoustics

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Soundscape Architecture

Martin Audio Empowers Jing’an Cultural Center’s Performing Arts Acoustics

Jing’an Cultural Center in Shanghai serves as a primary venue for regional cultural showcases, artistic performances, and community activities. Regularly hosting diverse events including concerts, theatrical plays, public lectures, and local cultural galas, the center demands exceptional clarity, balanced coverage, and absolute stability from its sound reinforcement system.

To match the venue’s premier positioning and versatile requirements, Jing’an Cultural Center selected a professional sound system from Martin Audio. By integrating XH15, DDX12, and DDX118 professional equipment, the team designed a customized acoustic solution that provides a reliable sonic foundation for every event.

Primary Sound Reinforcement: XH15 Main Loudspeakers Delivering Authentic Sound

Serving as the core of the main sound reinforcement system, the Martin Audio XH15 delivers outstanding acoustic resolution and balanced performance across low, mid, and high frequencies. It accurately reproduces subtle nuances in vocal and instrumental performances. Its wide coverage ensures that every audience member enjoys a consistent, immersive listening experience throughout the hall.

Auxiliary Coverage: DDX12 Eliminating Acoustic Blind Spots

The compact yet powerful Martin Audio DDX12 supplies supplemental coverage. Featuring controlled directivity, it allows flexible angle adjustments to project sound precisely across the venue. This completely resolves uneven coverage issues, ensuring clear audio quality for every seat.

Enhanced Low Frequency Depth: DDX118 Subwoofers Boosting Immersive Impact

The Martin Audio DDX118 subwoofer provides deep, powerful low end output, precisely delivering dramatic atmospheric effects and music accompaniment. Adding rich layers to the overall sound profile, it significantly heightens immersion for an elevated audience experience.

Driving Cultural Venues with Professional Excellence

The complete audio installation delivers stable, professional performance across all cultural events, earning high praise from venue operators and audiences alike.

With extensive expertise in professional audio, Martin Audio remains dedicated to authentic sound field reproduction tailored to commercial venues. Moving forward, the brand will continue providing advanced acoustic technology and refined system solutions for cultural centers, performance halls, and public spaces, enriching urban cultural life through exceptional sound.

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“A Sound Partner” for a Century Old Ballroom

“A Sound Partner” for a Century Old Ballroom:
Optimal Audio Brings the Dance Floor to Life

The Joy of Sound for Shanghai’s Old School Sophisticates

They are the generation who know that a suit should be paired with cufflinks, coffee should be ordered by brand, and dancing means knowing the difference between a waltz and a tango. Those who once spent their younger years at venues such as the Paramount Ballroom and Metropole still carry that distinctive sense of style and sophistication with them.

This discerning audience has high expectations when it comes to sound. The dance floor needs solid, controlled low frequencies without becoming overwhelming, while waltzes and slow three step dances require precise timing and rhythm. In the surrounding booths, conversation needs to remain clear and effortless, with music providing an atmospheric backdrop rather than competing with voices. The ballroom’s octagonal dome also presents acoustic challenges, making even and consistent coverage throughout the venue essential. Visually, the loudspeakers also need to be understated and elegant enough to complement the chandeliers and ornate details characteristic of old Shanghai.

Older sound systems could often sound muffled or overly harsh, leaving listeners fatigued after just one dance. With the installation of Cuboid 10 and Cuboid 12 loudspeakers, the venue now delivers a refined listening experience that allows guests to sit comfortably, converse easily and enjoy the dance floor for longer, helping create a livelier atmosphere throughout the ballroom.

Cuboid 10 + 12: A Perfect Combination for Double the Enjoyment

1. Cuboid 10 for the seating and lounge areas

The Cuboid 10 delivers warm and detailed midrange reproduction, bringing classic songs to life with an authentic character. Its smooth output does not overpower conversation, allowing guests to raise a glass, reminisce and catch up with one another while the music provides a gentle and enjoyable backdrop.

2. Cuboid 12 takes centre stage on the dance floor

With solid and responsive low frequencies, deep bass extension and controlled output, the Cuboid 12 provides the rhythm and impact required on the dance floor without becoming muddy or overwhelming. Whether turning, stepping forward and back, or moving in time with a partner, every step stays firmly connected to the music.

3. Elegant design with flexible installation

The wooden enclosure provides a premium aesthetic, while wall mounting and suspended installation allow the loudspeakers to blend naturally into the ballroom’s classic interior. Flexible installation and even coverage ensure that guests can enjoy consistent sound wherever they are in the venue.

4. Reliable performance and intuitive operation

The system provides stable and reliable performance throughout extended periods of operation, with clean output and dependable protection. It offers a simple and reassuring solution that is well suited to the relaxed pace of the ballroom’s social and entertainment activities.

True Sophistication Is in the Details You Can Hear

The acoustic upgrade of the VIP lounge at Shanghai Metropole Ballroom has now been successfully completed.

Optimal Audio Cuboid 10 and Cuboid 12 loudspeakers take their place in the historic venue, combining professional sound performance with the elegance of its surroundings.

With carefully considered acoustic design, every melody can be heard exactly as it should be. Every dance and every gathering can be enjoyed with ease, comfort and style.

Multi-Zone Audio System Design

Multi-Zone Audio System Design

What is a multi-zone audio system?

A multi-zone audio system is a commercial audio installation where different areas of a building each have independent audio control — their own music source, their own volume level, and their own schedule — all managed from a single controller.

In a restaurant, that might mean the bar plays upbeat background music at a higher volume while the dining room runs a quieter, more relaxed playlist simultaneously.

In a hotel, the lobby, spa, gym and restaurant each have their own atmosphere, each adjustable from a single interface at the front desk.

In a gym, the main floor and the group exercise studio each need different music at different volumes, while the changing rooms run quietly in the background.

The alternative — a single audio system playing the same thing at the same level everywhere — is a compromise that serves no space particularly well.

Multi-zone audio is the professional standard for any commercial venue with more than one distinct space or customer-facing area.

Do you need a multi-zone system?

Not every venue does. A single-room café with one space and one atmosphere can be served perfectly well by a single-zone system — one controller, one set of speakers, one volume level. Simpler is better when simpler is sufficient. A multi-zone system becomes the right choice when any of the following apply:

  • Your venue has spaces that serve different purposes — a bar and a restaurant, a gym floor and a studio, a lobby and a spa. Each space has a different customer, a different mood, and different audio requirements. Playing the same thing everywhere means one space is always wrong. 
  • Your venue has spaces that operate on different schedules — breakfast service in the restaurant, conference use in the meeting room, evening events in the bar. A multi-zone system lets each space run on its own timed routine, starting and stopping automatically without staff involvement.
  • You want different staff to control different areas independently — the bar manager adjusting their own zone without affecting the restaurant, or a fitness instructor controlling their studio without touching the main gym floor system. 
  • You operate multiple locations and want consistent audio across all of them — the same brand sound, the same presets, the same scheduling logic replicable from one site to the next.

The three components of a multi-zone system

Every multi-zone commercial audio installation has the same three building blocks, regardless of venue size.

Planning your zones

The most important step in designing a multi-zone system is mapping your venue into its natural zones before choosing any equipment. A zone is any space that needs independent audio control.

The question to ask for each area is: would there ever be a reason for this space to play different music, at a different volume, from a different source, than the space next to it? If yes, it is a zone. If no, it can share a zone with adjacent spaces. For a typical café-bar-restaurant the zones might be: bar area, dining room, terrace, and toilets — four zones, served by a Zone 4 or Zone 4P.

For a hotel covering lobby, restaurant, spa, gym, bar and conference room: six zones, served by a Zone 8 or Zone 8P with spare capacity for growth. For a gym with a main floor, two studios, changing rooms and reception: five zones, served again by a Zone 8 or Zone 8P.

Practical advice

Two common zone planning mistakes to avoid. Over-zoning — creating separate zones for spaces that will always run identically, adding cost and complexity without benefit. Under-zoning — combining spaces with meaningfully different acoustic needs or schedules into one zone and then trying to compromise. A practical rule: plan for one more zone than you think you need. Venues evolve, spaces get repurposed, and adding a zone after installation is significantly more disruptive than planning for it from the start.

Sources and inputs

A multi-zone system can distribute audio from multiple sources simultaneously. Typical sources for a commercial installation include: A streaming service accessed via a network-connected media player or directly through the Zone controller’s WebApp interface.

This is the most common primary source for background music in hospitality and retail venues. Local inputs at individual zones — allowing a DJ, live band, or microphone to connect directly at zone level without affecting the rest of the venue.

HDMI inputs for video and audio from a PC or media player — used in museums and visitor attractions to synchronise the soundtrack of a video installation with the Zone controller, or in hotels to route screen audio to the room’s speakers.

Paging and announcements — Talk 8

For venues that need to make live announcements or broadcast pre-recorded messages across specific zones — hotels, gyms, retail chains, museums — Optimal Audio’s Talk 8 is a dedicated eight-zone digital paging station that integrates directly with the Zone controller ecosystem.

Talk 8 sits on a desk or counter and connects to the Zone controller via the dedicated paging port. Staff use it to page individual zones, groups of zones, or the whole venue simultaneously.

It comes supplied with the Mic 1 gooseneck microphone for live voice announcements, and includes six instant message playback buttons that can be loaded with pre-recorded clips — opening time reminders, safety announcements, promotional messages — each assignable to any zone.

Message routines can also be scheduled via WebApp for fully automatic playback at set times throughout the day, with an optional pre-announcement chime to signal that a message is coming.

Control — how staff actually use the system

The most technically excellent audio system is worthless if the staff who operate it day-to-day cannot use it confidently. This is where Optimal Audio’s design approach is meaningfully different from many commercial audio systems.

Getting a system designed and installed

A multi-zone commercial audio installation is a designed system that requires a site survey, specification, installation and commissioning by a trained professional.

The process typically follows four stages. A site survey establishes the zone plan, acoustic characteristics of each space, installation constraints, and any integration requirements with existing infrastructure.

A system specification documents the recommended Zone controller, amplifiers, loudspeakers and cabling for each zone, along with a system diagram and cost estimate. Installation fits the physical components — cabling, speaker mounting, controller and ZonePad placement.

Commissioning configures WebApp with the zone routing, DSP settings, source inputs, staff presets and scheduled routines, and trains the venue staff on day-to-day operation.

Bloodline Gym Audio

High-energy audio for Bloodline Gym, London's East End

The Venue

Bloodline Gym in London’s East End is one of the UK’s leading Muay Thai and kickboxing centres. Owner Paul Marut built the Bloodline reputation over twenty years, starting in a smaller space in Clapton before the gym’s growth demanded a new purpose-built venue.

Marut’s background as a doorman at some of London’s most respected clubs and bars gave him a direct understanding of how music shapes an environment — he knew exactly what he wanted the system to do before the installer arrived.

The open-plan venue divides naturally into four functional areas: a reception with coffee bar at the entrance, the main workout floor on the ground level, a mezzanine chill-out zone above, and the wider space that hosts regular social events including interclub meets, fight nights and screenings.

The spaces serve different purposes simultaneously — members warming up at reception, training on the main floor, recovering on the mezzanine — each needing a different audio environment at the same time.

System at a glance

Controller

Zone 4

Manages all 3 zones —
reception, main floor, mezzanine

Loudspeakers — reception

Up with pendant housing and bezel-less grilles

Pendant format for high-ceiling entrance space

Loudspeakers — main floor

6x Cuboid 8

Ground floor gym area — full-range, no subwoofer required

Loudspeakers — mezzanine

3x Cuboid 6

Chill-out zone — lower volume, relaxed atmosphere

Amplifiers

SmartAmp 30

Drives all zones

Control

WebApp

Reception computer and owner’s iPad

Installer

Essex Sound and Light

MD: Mike Glover · Completed in 4 days

The challenge

Two challenges defined the specification, one acoustic and one operational — and they pulled in different directions.

The acoustic challenge was specific and unusual. Before the new system was installed, the gym had received noise complaints from office suites located above the building.

The problem was not simply volume — it was frequency. A system generating significant sub-bass was transmitting vibration through the building structure into the offices above.

The new system had to deliver the high-energy, punchy sound that Muay Thai training demands while eliminating the structural bass transmission that had caused the complaints. The conventional solution — a system with dedicated subwoofers — would have made the structural transmission problem worse, not better.

The specification had to find a different answer. The operational challenge was that Paul Marut needed to run a busy gym without audio becoming a management overhead.

With a reception team and training staff focused on members, the system had to run largely automatically through the day and give Marut remote control when he needed it — from anywhere in the building.

The system

Essex Sound and Light’s Mike Glover specified a solution built around a Zone 4 controller with SmartAmp 30 amplification.

The speaker selection was the critical design decision and addressed the noise issue directly. For the main workout floor, Glover specified six Cuboid 8 loudspeakers distributed across the ground floor area.

The choice was deliberate: the Cuboid 8’s wooden cabinet delivers a complete frequency response with genuine low-end presence — enough to create the energy a combat sports gym demands — without requiring a dedicated subwoofer.

By keeping all the bass reproduction within the speaker cabinet rather than from a floor-mounted sub, the system avoids the structural transmission that had generated the complaints.

Six units across the main floor provide even energy distribution throughout the training space. On the mezzanine chill-out zone, three Cuboid 6 loudspeakers create a markedly different atmosphere — the same audio quality at volumes appropriate for the recovery area’s character.

At reception, Up speakers with bezel-less grilles and pendant housing accessories deliver clear, welcoming coverage at the entrance. The pendant format allows the speakers to hang at an appropriate listening height from the high ceiling, giving the reception area good coverage without requiring surface mounting.

The bezel-less grille keeps the installation visually clean — matching the aesthetic of a professionally fitted gym environment.

Day-to-day operation

WebApp runs on the reception computer as the primary control point for staff. Paul Marut also runs WebApp on his iPad, giving him full control from anywhere in the building — adjusting zone levels while walking the gym floor without going back to the desk. Automated routines handle the opening and closing of the audio system in line with the gym’s hours. The system comes on and switches off without staff involvement — and if something is accidentally adjusted during the day, the scheduled reset restores the correct configuration automatically.

The outcome

The noise complaints stopped. The Cuboid 8 specification eliminated the structural bass transmission issue entirely by removing subwoofers from the equation while still delivering a full-range, high-energy sound fit for professional combat sports training. Essex Sound and Light completed the installation from first fix to commissioning in four days. Bloodline Gym now operates a system that runs itself through the working day, responds to manual override from anywhere in the building, and delivers the high-energy atmosphere that defines the venue’s character.

“The audio sounds great. Music is so important in a gym that we wanted to give our customers the best and Optimal Audio allows us to do that — and it's just so easy to control.”
Paul MarutOwner, Bloodline Gym
“The installation was so simple. The products are so easy to set up and configure and the complete project, from first fix to end result, took us just four days.”
Mike GloverMD, Essex Sound and Light
“For us going forward, Optimal Audio will be the go-to for commercial hospitality. We have a great relationship with the team, the products are great and importantly they're reliable. The ecosystem is simple to install and we're really enjoying working with the products.”
Mike GloverMD, Essex Sound and Light

Estadio Banorta

CASE STUDY

Estadio Azteca · Estadio Banorte · Mexico City

Every Screen Alive

Inside Mexico City’s iconic Coloso, AVPro MXNet quietly became the world’s largest single 10G AV-over-IP network — feeding more than 500 displays and over 20 video walls from one unified system.

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500+

Displays driven

20+

Large-format video walls

580

Decoder endpoints (Phase 1)

16x

Channels of 4K60 encoding

<2 ms

End-to-end latency

#1

Largest Single 10G SDVoE Network

THE PROJECT

A legendary venue, reimagined for the modern fan

AVPro worked alongside our partners to deliver this solution to the people of Mexico City and to the wider world, transforming how video moves through one of fútbol’s most legendary venues. Pop Media served as the integrator and leader, Duoson as AVPro’s distributor in Mexico, and Polaris Controls rounded out the team as the brand representative. At Estadio Banorte, which the people of Mexico have called Estadio Azteca for the last 60 years and known nationwide as El Coloso de Santa Úrsula, the team designed and deployed a single, stadium-wide video network built entirely on the AVPro MXnet 10G AV-over-IP platform. As the venue prepares to host a packed calendar of major fútbol events this summer, beginning with Mexico versus South Africa on June 11, that network delivers live action, replays, way-finding, and branded content on screen everywhere a fan looks. The result is a fan experience that feels effortless, and an engineering achievement that the AV industry will be talking about for years.

In collaboration with partners:

THE VENUE

El Coloso de Santa Úrsula

Estadio Banorte is not an ordinary building. Opened in 1966 and rising 2,200 meters above sealevel, it is the largest stadium in Latin America and one of the most storied fútbol’grounds on Earth, the only venue to have twice hosted the final of the sport’s biggest global tournament, and the stage for the most iconic moments in the game’s history. Bringing a place like this into the modern era meant solving a problem of sheer scale: how to deliver pristine, perfectly synchronized video to every concourse screen, suite, hospitality space, and giant video wall across an enormous concrete bowl, all from a single source of truth, with no stutter, no lag, and no compromise. For tens of thousands of fans in the stands and millions more watching from around the world, every one of those screens has to come alive at exactly the right instant.

Estadio Banorte, Mexico City

THE SOLUTION

One complete AVPro ecosystem

To make that happen, AVPro delivered a complete, end-to-end product ecosystem rather than a patchwork of parts. At the heart of the system are MXnet 10G SDVoE transceivers, compact encode-and-decode endpoints that sit behind each display, paired with MXnet 100G core switches, MXnet access switches, and dual CBOX-HA control systems for high-availability management of the entire network. Together, these components route live video to more than 500 televisions and over 20 large-format video walls throughout the stadium. Because every endpoint speaks the same language on the same network, any source can be sent to any screen, anywhere in the building, the moment an operator calls for it.

MXNet 10G SDVoE Transceivers
Compact endpoints behind every screen. Model AC-MXNET-10G-TCVR.
MXNet 100G Core Switches
Redundant dual VSF stacking core for the whole venue.
MXNet Access Switches
Reaching every corner across 23 distribution areas.

Dual CBOX-HA Control Systems
High-availability orchestration with built-in failover.

An Engineering Perspective: Kevin Wang

Kevin Wang on Site at Estadio Banorte

I first became involved with the Estadio Banorte project before ISE 2025 with the system design going through several major revisions as the customer’s requirements continued to evolve.

Because of cybersecurity and confidentiality requirements, I cannot share many of the technical details. However, the most important part of the project was that we recreated the entire system in our factory laboratory before deployment.

The R&D team and I spent seven full days building the complete system and carrying out the initial testing. After that, the wider AVPro team conducted another 14 days of integration testing. This allowed us to validate the design, test the network and system behavior, and identify potential problems before the equipment arrived on site.

The time and cost savings from this preparation are difficult to quantify, but they were among the main reasons the implementation went so smoothly. It also demonstrated the value of combining detailed engineering preparation with the effort of the entire AVPro team.

How It Works

Any Content, Any Screen, Instantly – With One Tap

What makes the experience so seamless is how the system moves signals to each screen. Rather than running a separate cable to every display, AVPro’s platform carries multiple independent video streams across a single shared 10-gigabit network and lets each decoder pull exactly the feeds it needs, from a single match angle on a concourse TV to several sources stitched together on a video wall. Every screen receives lossless 4K video with end-to-end latency low enough that the picture is effectively instantaneous, so a goal celebrated on the field is celebrated on every display in the same breath. For the people operating the venue, switching what plays where is as simple as a tap, even across hundreds of endpoints at once.

Conceptual Application Diagram of How MXnet 10G Routes Video

The Network

Engineered as one system, end to end

None of this works without the network underneath it, and this is where the project truly stands apart. AVPro didn’t just supply the video gear; the team designed and deployed the entire supporting infrastructure, building a resilient backbone with a dual stacking core, a 400G interconnect tying the stadium’s main distribution points together, 23 separate distribution areas reaching every corner of the venue, and redundant 100G uplinks throughout. By engineering switches, networks, encoders, and decoders into a cohesive system from a single manufacturer, AVPro removed the finger-pointing and guesswork that so often plague large installations. The infrastructure didn’t merely tolerate the demands of real-time AV; it was purpose-built for them, and it performed flawlessly under full load.

“One of the most important challenges of the project was to install everything in a surprisingly short time, as the stadium suffered a major renovation, so coordination between construction, fiber infrastructure, and hardware installation and commissioning was critical. But we managed to complete the project on time.

– Octavio Villa, Deputy General Manager at Pop Media, Technology

From Core Racks to Commissioning, AVPro Designed and Deployed the Full Network

The Scale

The Largest Single 10G SDVoE AV-over-IP Network in the World

The scale of the deployment is what sets it apart. Phase 1 alone runs 16 channels of 4K60 encoding, feeding 580 decoder endpoints, all on a single continuous network, making this the largest single-site 10G SDVoE AV-over-IP deployment in the world, a distinction AVPro has confirmed directly with Semtech, the technology’s originator. While other venues have purchased large quantities of SDVoE endpoints before, those projects were stitched together from several separate networks; Estadio Banorte runs as one. The system has already passed factory full-load testing, large-scale switching trials, co-existence testing alongside IPTV and Samsung VXT digital signage, and high-availability validation. And it is built to grow: the architecture scales beyond 2,000 nodes, with Phase 2 set to bring the venue to roughly 1,500 endpoints.

  • 16 channels of 4K60 encoding
  • Lossless 4K60 4:4:4, <2 ms latency
  • 23 distribution areas, dual 100G uplinks
  • Phase 2 grows to ~1,500 endpoints
  • 580 decoder endpoints in Phase 1
  • Dual VSF stacking core + 400G cross-MDF
  • Scales beyond 2,000 SDVoE nodes
  • Validated with Semtech as #1 worldwide
  • 16 channels of 4K60 encoding
  • Lossless 4K60 4:4:4, <2 ms latency
  • 23 distribution areas, dual 100G uplinks
  • Phase 2 grows to ~1,500 endpoints
  • 580 decoder endpoints in Phase 1
  • Dual VSF stacking core + 400G cross-MDF
  • Scales beyond 2,000 SDVoE nodes
  • Validated with Semtech as #1 worldwide

Passed factory full-load testing, large-scale switching trials, co-existence testing with IPTV and Samsung VXT digital signage, and high-availability validation.

Teatro Duse Theater

CASE STUDY

Teatro Duse Theater

Live Events Theater in Bologna, Italy

The historic Teatro Duse of Bologna raises the curtain with an ambitious and modern installation. The project was created to give new life to the scenic environment and give a more engaging theatrical experience, both to artists and users.

AVPro Edge Solution: MXNet

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Private Design Offices

CASE STUDY

Private Design Offices

Corporate Lobby in Minneapolis, MN

Creating the wow factor for visitors, this install is made up of 23 monitors that can be split into three different zones/walls or have one large image/video across the entire video wall.

AVPro Edge Solution: MXNet Mosaic Video Walls

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Alaska Airlines Terminal

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Alaska Airlines Terminal

Airport in Seattle, WA

This commercial digital signage installation for Alaska Airlines features one CBOX, one AC-MXNET-SW48, 22 decoders, and six encoders. This video distribution system does the communication job for Alaska Airlines by displaying signage, flight info, and airport warnings.

AVPro Edge Solution: MXNet

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