Information Distribution Equipment; Examples - Bosch Digital Congress Network Data Brochure

1.6 Information distribution equipment

A major strength of the DCN system is its ability to dis-
tribute information to conference participants quickly,
efficiently, and to suit all requirements. A wide range of
display media are supported, from simple LCD personal
screens to video equipment for venue broadcasting.
The Concentus chairman unit and one of the
Concentus delegate units are equipped with a graphic
LCD screen which displays delegate information, voting
time, public and personal messages, microphone status
and multi-lingual user instructions. These screens can
display languages such as Chinese that use non-
European characters. Interpreter desks are equipped
with backlit LCD screens.
Hall displays
Hall displays are the ideal medium for quick and
effective information distribution to a large number of
conference participants. Numeric, alphanumeric or
geographic displays are available, mainly for showing
voting results. TV receivers can also be used. LCD and
CRT video projectors offer high resolution information
distribution.
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All systems allow high quality display of any live or
recorded video material, computer-generated graphics
and text, and information generated by DCN software.

1.7 Examples

DCN - the versatile and flexible congress system
To demonstrate the versatility and flexibility of the
DCN, five examples of various types of gatherings and
conferences are given on the following pages. These
examples show the broad spectrum of application pos-
sibilities available with DCN, from informal gatherings
with relatively few delegates and no special require-
ments, through medium-sized conferences which
require microphone control and facilities such as voting
and interpretations, up to major congresses where a
considerable amount of hardware and software support
is required, multi-language facilities have to be provid-
ed, and operator control via a PC is essential.
In all examples, the basic principle of conference con-
trol remains the same, it is only the scale of the network
which changes. The modular construction of DCN
allows this kind of adjustment and expansion to take
place easily and quickly, and without high extra costs;
more delegate units are connected to cater for extra del-
egates, extra functions are provided by adding addition-
al software.
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