AVL

Overview

Audio, Visual, and Lighting - this term is used to specify either the department in charge of these elements, or the elements themselves. "AVL department," or "AVL gear." You may also hear "Production," or "Media." Simply put, this is the department and/or the people that make the theatrical elements of a worship or event service possible including the cameras, lights, and sound and all of the equipment that makes this possible. Often we will create an AVL VLAN that we may call the "Controls," ''Media',' or "AVL Controls" Network to isolate their traffic from other functions. This is important because a lot of equipment used by AVL use the Multicast protocol to interact with each other and this data traffic can be disruptive to normal operations. Many times, the network equipment used for these functions uses physically separate equipment that is managed by teams outside of Enable.

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