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Atlas Sound ControlKom 2.0 Used for 2013 NYC Marathon

NYCM1-1113Atlas Sound announced this week that its ControlKom 2.0 software and paging relays were selected to run the on-site paging system at the 2013 New York City Marathon on Nov. 3rd, 2013.

The New York City Marathon is one of the most prestigious marathon events in the world featuring a course that navigated all five of New York City’s boroughs. The 2013 race featured over fifty thousand entrants. Anticipating such a large number of participants and with the return to the five borough course format, marathon organizers needed to ensure that all participants and volunteers could receive clear instruction on site as well as deliver live messaging where needed.

The systems integrator, MSA, chose Atlas Sound’s ControlKom 2.0 IP paging software and paging relays to deliver the prerecorded and live paging communications the event required. MSA said that the ControlKom 2.0 system was chosen because it was the only option that could meet all of the requirements set forth by organizers to meet the needs of participants, volunteers, spectators and law enforcement officers. Organizers had to have the ability to generate pages or live announcements to individual or multiple zones using a public network. ControlKom 2.0’s layer 3 functionality works well in this type of application and Atlas Sound PR-CK paging relays enabled network messages to be distributed to rented analog PA systems in each of the 9 zones created for the race. The ControlKom 2.0 system was pre-programmed with 74 messages that provided everything from instructions for volunteers starting at 4:00 a.m. to race announcements that ran throughout the morning. The ControlKom 2.0 system was supervised via a single networked computer in the centralized Emergency Operations Center, which served as the hub for multiple civilian and law enforcement agencies providing service and security at the race.

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