Rental company Major Tom has continued to work its flexible Optocore Festival Boxes to full capacity in high profile deployments during 2023, including on Ed Sheeran’s extensive Mathematics world tour.
The company first invested in the Festival Box point-to-point converter (with 12 SFP modules) back in July 2021. They recognised the advantages of being able to tunnel any audio protocol, as well as video and data, over a single fibre - providing huge time, cost and space efficiencies in multi-act scenarios.
According to Major Tom project manager, Richard Wonnacott, “We have found [Festival Box] to be incredibly useful. In fact it has become the solution to almost every problem we encounter connecting one set of equipment to another, some distance away.
“The key benefits are the flexibility it provides to deal with whatever is thrown at us… not only in a festival situation, with multiple visiting consoles, but also the ability to run comms.”