Australia - Sydney Harbour provides the perfect natural amphitheatre and one of the safest locations to stage the largest annual fireworks display in the world. The fireworks and lighting show regularly attract over one million people in, on and around the Harbour. This year's show featured a new twist when, for the first time, lighting designer Martin Kinnane and programmer Sean 'Motley' Hackett could actually see what they were creating from across the Harbour at the Sydney Opera House. In the past, programming always had to occur with the equipment on the Bridge, but this year, Strand's Australian distributor, Bytecraft Entertainment, had a better idea.Using Strand's ShowNet nodes and WiFi wireless Ethernet they were able to connect the lighting console with all of the equipment on the bridge wirelessly across the Harbour. Strand's powerful and flexible TCP/IP Network created a seamless and reliable connection. The equipment used to create this included four Strand SN100 Ethernet Nodes, two D link Wireless Ethernet Access Points and two 2.4GHz Microwave Antennas. The results, shown here, were spectacular.
The lighting rig included 15 Space Cannon 7k Ireos Pro searchlights, 55 High End Studio Beams, 32 Martin MAC 2000 Wash, 12 Studio Due City Colors and six Studio Due City Beams.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
