Facility planning
Requirements, layouts and infrastructure for control rooms and production facilities before you commit budget.
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Sometimes you don’t
A plan you can
Built around
Technical direction.
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Consulting
Sometimes you don’t
need a build.
You need answers.
Broadcast engineering advice for facilities, venues and production teams, before you commit to a system or a supplier.
Engineering before equipment
A plan you can
actually build.
Facility planning, technology roadmaps, IP transition strategy and honest answers from engineers who build these systems every day.
Start with what you need to produce, what is already installed, and where the pressure points are. We’ll help turn that into a clear scope.
Book a consultationOur approach
Clarity at every level.
Design & proposal review
An independent second opinion on the plans, designs and vendor proposals already in your hands.
IP & ST 2110 transition
What to migrate, what to keep hybrid, and how to plan the network, timing and control.
Budget & capital planning
Engineering-backed budgets and sensible phasing when everything cannot happen at once.
Equipment evaluation
Routers, switchers, multiviewers, audio and communications compared against your real workflow.
Vendor selection
Technical guidance to help you evaluate options and choose partners that fit.
Workflow & operations
Signal flow, operator positions, resilience and documentation that make your facility easier to run.
Technology roadmaps
A practical, phased path forward that makes the most of your existing investment.
Architecture / Plan the transition
Built around
your workflow.
Baseband & hybrid systems
Define the routing, signal conversion, audio, control and monitoring around the system you have and the one you need.
SMPTE ST 2110 & IP
Plan timing, network capacity, media flows and orchestration. A migration can be phased; every part does not have to move at once.
Dynamic Media Facilities
A Dynamic Media Facility separates production functions from dedicated equipment wherever practical. Shared compute runs software-based media services, with orchestration assigning resources to the workflow that needs them.
Plan for on-premises, cloud or hybrid operation. A multipurpose room can support a live show, a remote production or a different team through reconfigured applications and controls, drawing from the same underlying resource pool.
We help define compute capacity, network and storage needs, licensing, latency, resilience and operator control, then map a phased transition that works with your existing systems.
Consulting in practice
Orlando City SC.
Technical direction.
A system that fits.
System specification, architecture design and procurement gave Orlando City’s team a clear plan for their control-room upgrade.
Read the projectA closer look
Make the decisions that shape the system.
A useful plan connects the creative ambition to the realities of the facility. Start with the productions you need to make, the people making them and the constraints the design has to respect.
Understand what exists today
Review the current signal paths, equipment, available drawings and day-to-day operating practices. Identify the parts worth retaining, the workarounds costing your team time and the dependencies that could complicate a change. An equipment inventory is useful; understanding how that equipment is used is essential.
Compare options against the production
A baseband upgrade, an IP transition and a shared-compute approach solve different problems. Compare them against input and output counts, simultaneous productions, operator responsibilities, downtime windows and the cost of running the system. The recommendation should explain the tradeoffs as clearly as the benefits.
Turn direction into a usable brief
Agree the deliverables around the decision ahead: a requirements brief, conceptual signal flow, equipment specification, scope boundaries or a phased technology roadmap. Identify dependencies on IT, facilities, construction and other vendors so the next stage starts with a shared understanding.
Plan a transition people can operate
Define what changes first, what stays in service and how new and existing systems will work together. Include operator familiarization, a test period and the criteria for moving into production. A roadmap should give your team a practical next step without requiring every future decision to be made today.
Before we begin
Questions worth asking.
Get a clearer picture of the engagement before you commit to a direction.
Do we need to choose equipment before contacting SYNA?
No. Bring the problem, the production requirements and any information about the current system. Equipment selection follows the workflow and the scope of the engagement.
Can consulting be separate from installation?
Yes. Consulting can help your team make a decision, establish a specification or prepare for a later build. We agree the outputs and level of detail before work begins.
What should we bring to the first discussion?
Existing drawings or an equipment list, the types of productions you support, current pain points, target timing and any budget parameters. Incomplete information is a starting point, not a reason to delay the conversation.
Your next project
Start with the right questions.
Tell us what exists today, what needs to change and which decisions are ahead.