
Allegiant Stadium Becomes Raiders' New Fortress on the Las Vegas Skyline Located near the Strip, the venue has the latest in control room technology By Kristian Hernandez, Associate Editor
Thursday, August 20, 2020 - 10:46 am
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The Autumn Wind, a poem written in 1974, has become a mantra for the franchise, and its stanzas reflect the team's efforts in completing Allegiant Stadium amid the COVID-19 pandemic: unfazed by the obstacles, the Las Vegas Raiders and their partners remained confident and unflappable. With a full-IP control room and a black-glass exterior featuring the largest outdoor videoboard in the league, the new venue is a perfect fit for the Silver and Black in Sin City.
With the largest outdoor videoboard in the NFL, Allegiant Stadium is another addition to the landscape in Las Vegas.
Our exterior wall, which is around 350 ft. wide by almost 80 ft. tall, is the largest outdoor board in the NFL, says Justin Lange, manager of audio, video, broadcast, and Cisco Vision operations, Allegiant Stadium. There's no reason to install a baseband control room now since that's not what's going in any venue. The decision to go IP is because it's the future.
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A Matter of Chemistry: Alpha Video Tapped as Integrator One of the NFL's newest stadiums is nearing completion, but, before the edifice progressed to its current state, the plan was put in place by a familiar company. Lange, who previously worked with the Minnesota Vikings, recruited Alpha Video to integrate the brand-new control room.
I've worked in just about every control room that Alpha has installed in the Twin Cities, he says. I'm very familiar with their work. It was a really easy transition to come out here and know the integrator on the AV side.
Situated high above the gridiron, operators in the control room have a stellar view of the entire playing surface.
With a chemistry based in past projects, the process of erecting Allegiant Stadium started off on the right foot. The team tapped local company The Morse Group as its licensed contractor, and its staffers have been heavily involved. But, in a time when construction has continued despite the ongoing pandemic, Lange relied on the familiarity of Alpha Video.
There was some newness to [working with a new contractor], and they've turned out to be great, he explains. But having Alpha was a no-brainer. They have made things super-slick and smooth.
Rising IP Tide: Venue Continues Emerging Trend of Full-IP Control Room As in-venue production evolves, technologies are always changing. One in particular, IP, has attracted the interest of in-venue professionals for quite some time. While other production teams continue to plan how they will gradually move away from SDI and baseband models to workflows based on IP, Las Vegas's new sports venue will move forward with a full-IP backbone. In a space that comes with a slew of hardware and software, diving deep into the IP waters was the best option.
The Raiders will be operating HDR videoboards over a full-IP network.
We have an infrastructure with a ton of single-mode fiber everywhere, notes Lange, so there's a lot of flexibility that we have with video transport on an IP router. We'll be able to send three signals down a single fiber; you can do three sends and three receives over a duplex pair.
Inside the control room, an Evertz EXE 2110 router and three EVS IPDirectors are at the center of the IP foundation. The IP network is able to control 12 Panasonic PTZ cameras located throughout the stadium.
Despite the strong base, it's not easy being among the first to produce a videoboard show over IP. It's more difficult to conceptualize and deal with [IP], notes Lange, but, ultimately, that's where everything is headed. If you're installing a new control room and you're going to spend $7 million to $8 million, you might as well make it an IP solution because, in five years, we're not going to have a single baseband install out there.
In addition to the IP-flavored technologies, the control room is filled with other deployments as well. Notable highlights include a Ross Video Acuity production switcher; multiple EVS XT3 servers featuring 12 1080p inputs, one super-slo-mo input, and three 4K inputs with Epsio Zoom control; Riedel Bolero wireless intercom and Artist 128; and 250 TB of Quantum NAS storage.
Las Vegas Lights: Massive LED Videoboards Allow Symmetrical Content Although IP is the headliner of this build, the large-scale videoboards are no slouch. At 8-mm pixel pitch, these LED displays will project content with precision and clarity. A mesh LED board will handle material outside the stadium, and a trio of boards - one on the South side of the stadium, two on the North - will take care of duties on the inside. The three videoboards will be the driving force, with a playout that will be similar for fans sitting anywhere in the stadium.
Besides supplying IPDirector, EVS is also handling replay duties.
The South board is just a little over 250 ft. long and 48 ft. high, says Lange. The North boards will both be a little over 120 ft. long and 48 ft high. The 16 9 aspect ratio on both sides is exactly the same, so we will be able to match some of that content from the North boards to the South board.
Along with these gigantic displays, the venue is also outfitted with a 30-ft.-high x 10-ft.-wide marquee at the 15-yard line and nearly two full rings of ribbon boards that are 112 pixels tall.
To showcase the action on the videoboards, the Raiders will use the Panasonic PTZs and seven Sony 4300 manned cameras (five hard, two handheld) that will be dispersed throughout t
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