Cadac recently issued a press release about the announcement of the S-Digital console. If anyone got the sound and automation for theatre right it will be Cadac. I can’t wait to see and hear this one. Brian found pictures on Flickr!!

Entertainment technology has been steadily moving the way of switched networked systems, and more specifically, wireless networks. Entertainment technicians are generally very good at troubleshooting. Due to the nature of live entertainment, we have become very good at quickly and efficiently finding and fixing problems. After all the show must go on. Wireless networks pose an interesting problem. While dealing with a wired network, the methods of finding and fixing, are tried and true, when the wires are absent and the network part of the network seems fine, serious tools are needed to diagnose and fix problems. Wildpackets makes software and hardware to analyze several layers of the OSI model. The most difficult of which to troubleshoot is the physical layer, when it is wireless.

OnmiSpectrum is a suite of analysis tools to visualize and identify signals, interference, channel utilization in the 802.11x bands. The hardware/software package is very affordable, especially when compared to other spectrum analysis tools. OnmiSpectrum also offers the user a great deal more information about the nature of the signals than a standard spectrum analyzer.

It is able to help answer the question, “Is it my equipment, or my environment?”