The renowned Reykjavik City Theatre (RCT) recently underwent a major intercom system upgrade using Clear-Com products. This milestone project uses Clear-Com’s Arcadia Central Station, delivering expanded capacity and flexibility to one of Iceland’s most prestigious performance venues.
Since opening in 1989, RCT has been a cultural hub for Iceland’s theatre community, hosting a diverse range of productions in its three performance spaces which share foyer and backstage dressing rooms. While the intercom system underwent upgrades in 2008 and 2015 to meet growing demands, RCT recently transitioned to a unified production network infrastructure. With this high-speed architecture in place, the move to the Arcadia Central Station proved ideal, using the new network to launch the theatre into a modern era of communication.
The Arcadia upgrade included FreeSpeak high-capacity IP transceivers and 24 FreeSpeak II wireless beltpacks, alongside HelixNet networked partyline speaker stations to ensure coverage throughout all shared performance spaces. By making extensive use of Clear-Com’s virtual Role configuration, the team effectively deploys this shared inventory across different venues and tasks.
Additionally, Dante connectivity was added to the production audio network and paging system. This allows any audio input or output to be assigned within the intercom system while still retaining existing V-Series keypanels, FreeSpeak beltpacks and analog partyline system components, now powered by Arcadia.
The upgraded system provides RCT’s teams with the mobility, capacity, and ease of use needed to adapt effortlessly to dynamic production demands.
