Gateway Church Opts for Riedel MediorNet and Artist Systems

The Gateway Church, in Southlake, Texas, changed its former AV distribution and communications system for a fiber-based network installation. The fully integrated solution consists of a MediorNet fiber network backbone and an Artist digital matrix intercom. Responsible for the installation and planning was the systems integrator Beck Associates. The Gateway Church comprises three different campuses. A comprehensive system was installed based on Riedel MediorNet, a fiber-based multipoint network solution providing integrated transport for 3G/HD-SDI video, audio, data, and communications. The heart of the installation is a set of five MediorNet mainframes. Offering a true fiber-based real-time network approach beyond single point-to-point links, MediorNet allows for routing all signals to any port -- or even multiple points -- within the network providing a flexible signal distribution. The MediorNet system is mainly used to distribute the HD video signals of the church services between the different campuses and chapels.

"We want our services to be as immersing as possible. Knowing that we have a really flexible and powerful technology running in the background that takes care of all signal distribution and can be easily configured to our needs, let's us concentrate on what's most important for us: the service itself. Riedel helps us achieving this" says David Leuschner, of Gateway Church.

For providing communications between all three campuses, Beck Associates installed a combination of one Artist 62 and two Artist 32 digital matrix intercom mainframes. They provide the connection for a large number of Artist control panels of the 1000, 2000, and 3000 series. Due to its modular approach Artist systems can be easily expanded to form infrastructures with up to 1,024x1,024 non-blocking ports if needed. The whole Artist infrastructure is also distributed via the MediorNet fiber network, which reduces cabling effort even further. The system is already installed and provides the distribution of all signals during church services.