What is being billed as "the world’s most futuristic and advanced ship" recently set sail from the Papenburg, Germany shipyard where it was built. Anna Mitchell gets the exclusive on media, entertainment and audio systems on board.
Cruise line brand Royal Caribbean International recently unveiled a new class of cruise ships, starting its line-up with the high-tech Quantum of the Seas. The ship boasts virtual balconies, staggering entertainment venues and a capacity of nearly 5,000 people.
Multimedia and entertainment systems were deployed by German integrator Amptown System Company (ASC), while technology provider FUNA took on architectural lighting, dimming and on board communication systems.
PA/GA system FUNA, which has a long history of developing public address and general alarm (PA/GA) system’s on cruise ships, installed QSC’s QSys within the Quantum of the Seas.
Its installation incorporated nearly 100 separated loudspeaker networks (zones), more than 70 music groups, an amping power of more than 115,000 W and more than 13,000 loudspeakers.
The system is based on a redundant fibre optic network with a redundant QSC Core 4000 operating as the main processing unit of the system. It is equipped with 17 paging stations with custom designed touch panels with external alarm functionality.
All audio and control signals are shared between the QSys components wihin the QLAN Ethernet network, so that analogue audio signals inside the PA/GA system could be totally omitted.
A detailed write up on ASC’s work on board the ship can be found in the November issue of InAVate magazine, which you can
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