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Britannia Row Productions deploys sitewide comms, networking and radios to 19th World Athletics Indoor Championships

Britannia Row’s specialist comms department Surfhire oversaw a large Cisco network backbone, Riedel comms and Motorola radios to the World Athletics Indoor Championships, a globally watched live sporting event.

Held in Glasgow over three days in early March 2024, the 19th edition of the World Athletics Indoor Championships saw 586 athletes from 128 countries go head-to-head for 26 titles as 22,000 spectators watched. To ensure uninterrupted coverage of the performances both on-site and for global TV audiences, Britannia Row was asked to deliver a comms solution and a team of experts to Glasgow’s Commonwealth Arena.

Working on behalf of UK Athletics (UKA), the governing body responsible for overseeing the governance of athletics events and athletes in the UK, the crew distributed a large network backbone deployment of Cisco Nexus 10G Switches, Riedel Artist Intercoms network - 30 assorted panels of IP based smart panels, 35 Bolero wireless intercoms and 40 Bolero NSA002 4wire interfaces - plus 250 Motorola R7 Series Radios with six Motorola SLR 5700 Repeaters for a two-way radio service.

“We had a highly specialised crew on-hand for this project - three Network Engineers and two Matrix Comms Engineers”, says Britannia Row comms specialist Simon Hodge. “Two of our IT engineers are CCNA Level Architects.” Britannia Row was also tasked with managing the entirety of the event’s spectrum, including DMR channels, PMSE channels and Microwave spectrum of up to 12 Gghz for wireless cameras and links.

“A live sporting event of this scale has huge potential for RF interference between users”, says Hodge. “Thanks to Paul Carter who was equipped with a portable analyser following heavy planning, the gig happened without a hitch. He also managed Qualifying Revenue to Ofcom - the UK’s communications regulator - for the spectrum, acting as our agent to ensure all stakeholders were happy.”

(Photos: Britannia Row Productions/UK Athletics)

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