Lightfair Report
We're here at Lightfair debuting the new Unison Paradigm and Smartlink systems and the report is: All is good!
Wednesday was a great day with customers packing the booth to get a look at the new hardware and extended demos of the new software. This is a hit folks!
The weeks events kicked off with the load in of the newly dressed out architectural booth, continued with a special dinner to introduce the system to ETC reps and culminated with a great opening day on the ETC booth. Visitors were able to see the new Unison DRd racks with the option of installing a SmartLink or Paradigm processor. There are group demos of Light Designer - the new configuration software. Dan Talajkowski, technical product manager for the new stuff, was like a carnival barker all day doing demos. (Word was that Dan installed a nicotine patch in the AM so he could stay on the booth all day!) 
Visitors could move through the booth from Hardware to Dans demo - over to Brian Palmer where they could design their own touchscreen LCD layout and upload it right away. The Award winning Pharos LPCx also was on display along with the full Pharos line. The Pharos area was crowded as usual.
You know - this has been really fun so far. I admitted to Joe Bokelman that I could never had imagined that launching this new Architectural system could be as fun as launching new consoles -- but it was! I think many of us at ETC have been awaiting this show for a long time. When you've shown mostly the same products over the years it feels really great to show brand new stuff. All the ETC salespeople are riding a great wave and that wave goes out into the market.
We still have some miles ahead of us on this architectural journey. We have training in July - release to manufacturing in August with shipments by October; this is still a journey.