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Fix8Group’s virtual events space opens for business

Fix8Group’s virtual events, broadcast and connectivity centre is fully operational for business. Known as ‘The Hub’, it is located at Fix8Group’s facility in Greater Manchester, and has been designed to enable virtual and hybrid events, shows or presentations to be produced entirely under one roof.

Inside, The Hub offers a studio, gallery and master control room, along with technical operators. It facilitates on-site as well as full remote event production, including capacity for managing signals from broadcast locations worldwide.

Fix8Group soft-launched The Hub in late summer, enabling a number of virtual events to be generated and managed while significant investments were made to install some technology. The Hub is fully open for business right now.

Within The Hub, the Studio space features a 12 m x 4 m, 2.6 mm pixel density LED screen, offering more than 4K resolution and forming a flexible digital backdrop for events. This can achieve anything from a static background image to a fully immersive 3D scene where presenters can interact and communicate with the audience or remote contributors.

There is a large stage in front of the screen, sound engineer consoles and a lighting rig, all of which are fully customisable to suit client requirements. XR capabilities are embedded. Up in The Gallery, live feeds from the Studio or elsewhere in the world convene and are mixed and manipulated, to be combined with pre-recorded materials.

The epicentre of The Hub is the Master Control Room. All data traffic is fed through this facility, maximising the use of technology with a complex NDI network. Significant resilience is built into the facility with dual dedicated leased lines and infrastructure encompassing other fail-safe methods of reaching the internet, to provide confidence for streaming services.

“The Hub can handle multiple shows from different clients concurrently, giving us the capacity to adapt as things change”, says Fix8Group’s Founder and Creative Director, Neil Trenell. “We can scale and enhance the technology to deliver low latency and high bandwidth solutions depending on client needs. All critical components are geo-resilient, which means if there’s a problem with a connection or data centre, we can still deliver.”

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