ChamSys Pioneers Sig-Net With Live Test at WOMAD FestivalChamSys performed the first-ever live road test of the new Sig-Net protocol at the Big Top Tent at WOMAD Festival in Neston, UK. A ChamSys MagicQ MQ500M+ was used to control a ChamSys GeNetix GN8 running Sig-Net protocol, controlling 100 fixtures on six universes of lighting. ChamSys MQ500M+ supports 400 universes of Sig-Net on up to 10 different Sig-Net scopes direct from the console without requiring any additional processing nodes. Sig-Net ran both during the build and over the four show days, controlling the lighting for over 20 top artists, including KOG, Kofi Stone, Emma-Jean Thackray, Barrut, Jose Gonzalez and Made Kuti, grandson of the Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. Lighting designers Will Thomas and Chris Kennedy put the lighting through its paces. Sig-Net performed without any latency, flickering or routing issues. Swapping between the main and backup consoles was handled flawlessly. The stage team of Nikki Dickinson and Katy Jane Lord commented on the simplicity of using Sig-Net: A simple passphrase was configured and left to work for six days. WOMAD was founded in 1980 by a group of musicians including Peter Gabriel, who remains involved. It celebrates the world's many forms of music, arts and dance with live shows and workshops; events include a Taste the World stage where famous artists cook onstage. Sig-Net is a free-to-use protocol designed by Singularity (UK) Ltd created by Art-Net inventor Wayne Howell. It was created to provide security and authentication, as opposed to Art-Net and sACN; with these, anyone in possession of a console or computer can accidentally or maliciously take control of the lighting rig. All new lighting equipment must support secure lighting protocols by the end of 2027 to be compliant with the incoming European Cyber Resilience Act. Sig-Net enables a full secure remote management and diagnostic interface to ease network configuration issues and uses trademarked Multicast Folding to overcome the scaling and routing issues of sACN. In addition, RDM, timecode, MIDI, and OSC can all be sent over Sig-Net securely. Lighting for all stages at WOMAD was provided by TSL Lighting ,based in Basingstoke, UK, with the support of account director Ian Turner. ChamSys consoles were used throughout the site on five stages. ChamSys, Singularity, Robe, and other top lighting manufacturers will be demonstrating Sig-Net at the PLASA Cybersecurity Pavilion (K66) at PLASA London, September 6-8. 
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