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OPTOCORE FESTIVAL BOX Optocore Applications Engineering Manager, Maciek Janiszewski lifts the lid on the Festival Box
What were your original goals in the development of the Festival Box? Our goal has always been to provide a straight-forward and powerful solution which makes production simple, yet flexible and better sounding. When we started thinking about the current market, we noticed that there are simply too many protocols, all requiring different cables and providing different functionalities. Our main goal was to simplify that and provide single-fibre transport which is as open as possible and compatible with everything.
bandwidth - it is truly ‘plug and play’ solution. Festival Box’s connectivity is based on SFP fibre platform which means user-swappable SFP modules which provide different connectivity - copper or fibre in different flavours. Based on job specifics users can easily change the device configuration by swapping the SFP module. How has the product been specifically designed to offer maximum flexibility in signal transport in live environment? We used our fibre expertise and knowledge. Instead of operating in electric signal the device works in optical domain - all SFP modules mentioned below are multiplexed in fibre domain which means there is no bandwidth restriction, also it doesn’t matter how a specific protocol which connects via the Festival Box works - Festival Box is as transparent as a cable.
What are the main capabilities and functions of the Festival Box? It essentially brings multiple protocols into single fibre and filters them out on the other end. Each protocol remains completely unaltered and independent, customers don’t need to look at the protocol type or 102
