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Biamp's Vocia, Networked Media System |
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Written by Bob Snyder
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Saturday, 20 February 2010 |
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Sona, the latest acoustic echo cancellation algorithms from Biamp, was launched at ISE. Despite its significance in improving audio performance, its launch was overshadowed by Biamp’s Vocia, a new platform for networked paging and voice evacuation systems.
In our ISE video, Matt Czyzewski, Biamp VP Business Development, talks about Sona as well as Vocia (pronounced vo-CHEE-ah). The concept of “no central point of failure” makes Vocia’s modularity attractive, as well as combined distributed processing and page routing, and networked audio and control.
The system is easily expandable from a single paging station and amplifier to multiple zones with several hundred inputs and outputs. Vocia is a system including live, delayed and recorded announcements, message store and forward, system-wide alarms and event logging, as well as background music routing. The Vocia system takes advantage of standard Ethernet and is CobraNet-enabled and complies with several voice evacuation regulatory standards.
Vocia can be implemented in healthcare facilities, university campuses, transportation facilities such as airports, recreational facilities and other venues that require highly reliable paging and voice evacuation systems.
The Sydney Olympic Park Authority installed a pre-release implementation of Vocia at its Homebush Olympic Park site and launched it at an event in December 2009.
Go Biamp Systems
See the video with Biamp's Matt Czyzewski on Sona and Vocia
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