Integrated Networks is the current buzzword around comms.

Delta have been providing integrated networks for the past 10 years, it’s our best kept secret and the London new year’s display is a prime example.

Every year Delta work with Jack Morton Worldwide on London’s new year’s firework display. It takes place over the River Thames and the London Eye, the display is seen by millions of people on BBC and by 175,000 people live from the viewing banks of the Thames.

The viewing experience ascended to new levels this year with, for the first time, a full panoramic of the pyrotechnics and lighting unveiled in a 360° live broadcast by the BBC, offering the people at home the opportunity to take control of their viewing experience, creating a completely new immersive way to see the display. The Delta Comms team provided infrastructure for the BBC to support the 360° live feed.

For the 2016 display Delta Comms successfully delivered communications across the entire site, providing all the onsite radio communication covering the production teams, the firework teams and the stewards across London; hundreds of radios were used to give total coverage. Wired comms were distributed out across the entire site and offsite panels were set up for remote government control rooms.

Microwave links were also used in remote locations for connectivity to our radio high-sites, including the famous Big Ben to capture the midnight chimes. 12,000 fireworks producing 50,000 projectiles were all synchronised together by GPS to these chimes.

The 12 minute show was accompanied by audio playback comprised of iconic sound bites and musical tracks, using Ovation Show Controls, multitrack playback sequencers and L-Acoustics line arrays. Hangs were placed across central London from Westminster Bridge through to Waterloo Bridge on the north embankment, and Jubilee Gardens on the south side, flown on a mixture of cranes and masts.