Long-standing Sports venue technical hubs are commonly a maze of cables and power cords, with limited documentation; the result of rapid fire upgrades in a opportunity-driven environment. Moda Center is one of those spaces. The sheer volume of capacity, capability, and related systems installed in a very limited space is nothing short of impressive. But ZTransform were committed to making this switcher and embedded multiviewer upgrade a cornerstone of an improved environment, with careful planning, solid documentation, and a clean installation. Because the new switcher installation was a physical and operational upgrade to their legacy system, some shuffling of rack positions and related cabling would be required.

 

Without documentation for the current installation, there was no way to know what would require modification until the ZT team began decommissioning, and the forensic assessment required. But this extra focus would ensure the already-busy Trail Blazers Engineering team would have confidence that this new system would require little-to-no added attention for the foreseeable future.