Cirque Expands Sound Equipment Order

Clear-Com Announces Cirque du Soleil(R) Expansion Order; Matrix Intercom Platform Facilitates Live Audio Collaboration for New LOVE Performance

EMERYVILLE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 17, 2006–Clear-Com(R), a Vitec Group brand and the global leader of trusted intercom solutions, today announced that Canada’s Cirque du Soleil has purchased additional components from its integrated portfolio of live audio communications technology. Today’s sale marks the second order from the performance arts company, who successfully deployed Clear-Com for a previous performance. Cirque du Soleil’s order includes main and redundant power supply modules, 6-RU frames with 72- in/out port capabilities, user-friendly programming panels and system interfaces for interoperable point-to-point, party-line and camera intercoms, and 2-way radios. Clear-Com’s comprehensive offering will be used to support production wide communications at LOVE, the latest production by Cirque du Soleil at The Mirage in Las Vegas.

Cirque du Soleil’s purchase order included the Compact-72 Matrix frame along with ICS digital matrix, IMF interface frame and CCI and RCS Party-Line products. Designed to simplify intercom communication, Clear-Com’s components provide users with the flexibility to easily expand and configure their audio systems according to operational needs. For example, when utilizing the Matrix rack platform, stagehands have the option of choosing from a variety of intercom solutions including point-to-point communication, party-line and IFB/cue within the same system. In an effort to simplify split-second communications, the Matrix platform was deployed for talent cues, dressing room pages and on-stage life safety communications.

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