Case Study: Powering Mission-Critical Collaboration at Avio

Technology Serving Collaboration in Avio’s New Building

Avio S.p.A. is an Italian company, a European leader in the space launch sector.

Its headquarters in Colleferro (Rome) now features a new building that includes two large spaces for meetings and events, boardrooms, and meeting rooms. These spaces offer employees the most advanced audio/video and collaboration tools, which the company also uses to interact with the space base and R&D teams during live Ariane launcher broadcasts. The solution was installed by the professionals of Team Office, with technology provided by Exertis AV.

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The Challenge: A High-Level Yet User-Friendly Collaboration Infrastructure

Michele De Luca introduces us to the reality of Avio, undeniably an Italian excellence:

“Avio is a European leader in the aerospace & defense sector and has focused on the space launcher business for over fifty years. We are the prime contractor for the European light launcher Vega (Vettore Europeo di Generazione Avanzata), today known as Vega C (Vega Consolidation). We’re also a partner of ArianeGroup for designing the heavy launcher Ariane.”

He adds that Avio is

“investing heavily in the development of a new generation of green launchers, with engines using liquid oxygen and methane as propellants.”

“The new building was created with a strong focus on collaboration and offers employees numerous meeting rooms and two large environments (an auditorium with classic cinema seating and one shaped like an amphitheater), connected through a room-combining mode.”

Matteo Sinibaldi, ICT System Administrator at Avio, explains how these two main rooms are used:

“The main room features two 16:9 LED walls, while the smaller room has a single 16:9 LED wall. A central control room manages both environments. While the main room hosts large events, the smaller one can be used independently for internal training or to support the event itself, like a press room.”

De Luca also outlined their requirements for Team Office regarding the technology setup:

“We wanted high-quality products, reliable cabling, flexibility, ease of use, and a unified tech infrastructure across all environments — fully Microsoft Teams-ready.”

The Solution: A Sophisticated Yet Simple User Experience

Luigi Favella explains how Team Office responded to these demands:

“Avio’s requests were clear: create a technology infrastructure to facilitate collaboration both in the meeting rooms and in the two large environments for training and events.”

A complex yet fascinating aspect of this installation was managing the AV content on the two 16:9 LED walls in the main auditorium.

“Actually,” Favella clarifies,
“the main room has three displays: a central ultra-stretch LED wall (540x460 pixels) and two 16:9 screens on either side. This setup allows the display to adapt to various room configurations. For instance, the speaker table can be replaced by a podium aligned with the central screen, which can be blacked out or personalized with background graphics.”

De Luca confirms the importance of the DEXON processor’s flexibility:

“During face-to-face meetings, the two videowalls let us flexibly manage information flows, displaying statistics on one screen and images on the other, or streaming remote participants.”

Sinibaldi adds:

“When we all gather to watch a live launch, we can simultaneously display the live stream, technical data windows, and even a live Teams connection with our experts in other rooms.”

Video Wall Controller: Advanced Performance for Multi-Screen Management

At the heart of the video management system is the DEXON DXN-6200 video wall controller, which provides powerful and flexible control over all visual content displayed across the various LED walls in the building.

The DXN6200 video wall controller offers:

• Real-time, seamless rendering of multiple video sources.

• Dynamic window management, supporting an unlimited number of freely resizable and overlapping video windows.

• Inputs from HDMI and HDBaseT sources, as well as IP streaming and web content.

• Intuitive control for video wall layouts, allowing operators to recall preconfigured presets or create custom configurations for specific events.

• Ensures smooth switching and synchronized content across multiple displays with no delays.

• Multi-screen content distribution, with the ability to manage independent or combined displays depending on the event setup.

• Easy integration with existing AV infrastructure and Microsoft Teams-ready environments.
  
  

This controller ensures flexible, professional management of simultaneous video streams — such as statistical data, live images, and remote videoconferencing — during meetings, training, or live broadcast events.

A Future-Proof, High-Performance Installation

The system was designed with future-proofing in mind — with redundant cabling and hardware solutions featuring performance reserves to accommodate future expansions and technology upgrades.

Collaboration and Sharing for Daily Operations

Emanuele Celegato describes the integration in detail:

“We built a complex architecture to deliver a simple user experience. The speaker table and podium are mobile, and together with the furniture supplier, we designed floor-based connection boxes for easy device integration.”

The rest of the AV infrastructure was designed for user simplicity while maintaining technical sophistication. The rooms feature flexible furniture solutions with integrated floor connection points for easy device setup.

Boardrooms and Meeting Rooms

Celegato continues:

“Meeting rooms are used for presentations and videoconferencing. We selected plug-and-play devices compatible with current and future systems.”

User Satisfaction for a Future-Proof Installation

The successful completion of this complex infrastructure project was made possible through the close collaboration of all parties involved.

Emanuele Celegato concludes:

“We worked with a future-proof approach, installing redundant cabling and selecting equipment with performance reserves ready for future upgrades.”

This project demonstrates how advanced yet user-friendly technology can elevate collaboration in mission-critical environments like Avio. As the central video wall processing platform, the DEXON DXN6200 provides the flexibility required to manage the building's diverse collaboration and visualization scenarios.

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