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General Description
Description, Installation, and User Manual
Federal Signal
www.fedsig.com
2.0 General Description
2 1 Introduction
This document is a description, installation, and user manual for the PAGASYS® GEN II
Remote Controller (GENII-RC) and PAGASYS® GEN II Remote Amplifier (GENII-RA700). Its
intended audience are those assigned to use and maintain the system.
2 2 Overview
PAGASYS GEN II is a fully featured Public Address/General Alarm (PA/GA) system that
includes support for standalone controller operation, A/B controller hot-standby (high-
integrity system), and full A/B system redundancy (duplicated system).
The PAGASYS GEN II family includes the GENII-RC Remote Controller and the
GENII-RA700 Remote Amplifier: low-cost, networked PA/GA system components that are
fully compatible with the rest of the PAGASYS GEN II family.
In particular, the GENII-RC and GENII-RA700 products are designed to leverage IP
network communication and Dante® audio-over-IP digital audio to provide easy, robust,
and low-cost PA/GA to both local and remote sites.
3.0 GENII-RC Remote Controller
The GENII-RC Remote Controller is part of the PAGASYS GEN II product family. It provides
comparable features to a PAGASYS GEN II full controller in a space-efficient 2U rack-
mountable chassis. In addition to built-in audio and I/O capabilities, it is fully compatible
with all PAGASYS GEN II I/O boards and amplifiers and can be included in a PAGASYS
GEN II networked system with other GENII-RCs and/or GEN II full controllers.
3 1 GENII-RC Features
3 1 1 Audio
Audio inputs are selectable from among 8 analog and 16 Dante® digital audio inputs.
Analog inputs are designed for access panels but can be used for other analog audio
sources. Dante® inputs can accept audio from any Dante® network audio source,
including GENII-RA700 amplifiers.
Audio output uses 2 PAGASYS GEN II amplifier audio paths and 16 Dante® outputs.
Depending on the configuration, the system can support either two or four simultaneous
broadcasts. Audio outputs can be used to drive PAGASYS GEN II amplifiers or provide
audio to external systems.
Table 1 GENII-RC Audio
GENII-RC Configuration Amplifiers
Simultaneous Broadcasts
Standalone, Duplicated
Analog with or without Remote 2
Standalone, Duplicated
Remote Only
4
High Integrity
Any
2
Dante® audio is also used in networked PAGASYS GEN II systems to support global
access panels (GAPs) and to allow multiple PAGASYS GEN II controllers to share audio.
In a networked PAGASYS GEN II system, this distributed audio routing makes the overall
system robust in the face of localized failures.