Riedel’s MediorNet real-time signal transport, processing and routing technology powers a unique drive-up ministry for Cherry Hills Community Church, a large house of worship based in suburban Denver.

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the social distancing measures that ensue, the church presents its Sunday services in the car park in their vehicles while MediorNet provides expandable and reliable video, audio and intercom signals between the control room and the outdoor stage.

Given the short notice, Cherry Hills Community Church reached out to Reidel and it was able to quickly deploy the technology required for the project.

“We had used MediorNet previously to handle camera feeds and intercom for an event taking place on the other side of our campus,” Cherry Hills Community Church technical arts director Chris Thomas says.

“MediorNet was the first thing that came to mind when I was thinking about how to get interconnectivity between the building and a trailer set up in the parking lot that served as the front of house mix position for our drive-up services.”

The deployment consists of two MediorNet MicroN high-density media distribution network devices which act as an extension of the church’s permanent IT network. They provide an Ethernet tunnel between the control room in the building’s main auditorium and the outdoor stage.

The MicroN unit in the control room is patched directly into the church’s video router and interfaced with an existing network switch and a Riedel Artist-128 intercom mainframe.

The MediorNet network carries the video program feed from the control room to LED screens in the parking lot and carries three camera feeds from the outside back into the building.

On the audio side, the MicroNs extend the Dante VLAN feed out to the parking lot and then bring the audio feed back into the auditorium, where church technicians use their existing front of house console to mix the broadcast audio feed.