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DCN Data Brochure | Introduction |31. Introduction1.1 Digital Congress NetworkWorld’s first digital congress systemThe Bosch Digital Congress Network (DCN) brings thebenefits of innovative digital technology to discussion,conference and congress systems. Digital signal processingand transmission via a simple network system notonly offers great improvements in audio quality, butsimplifies operation and installation. The DCN controlsystem has the option of modern, user-friendly softwareto setup and control conferences, although it is just aseasy to run an operator-free configuration.DCN provides flexible management facilities for alltypes of conferences, from small, informal gatherings tointernational, multi-lingual congresses with thousandsof delegates. It is the first entirely digital system of itskind, and offers versatility, high audio quality datatransmission security while providing complete controlover conference proceedings.Digital performance with user-friendly software controlEvery requirement of modern conference managementis met. There are facilities from basic microphone management,through delegate identification and registration,electronic voting, information distribution anddisplay, up to extensive simultaneous interpretation.The DCN is above all a user-friendly system. A singleoperator can, with the help of the appropriate softwaremodules, control and monitor even the largest of congresses.Modular system approachBy simply daisy-chaining the modular DCN units, anyconfiguration can be put together. Although the diagramon the right shows a simple discussion system, themodular structure of the DCN system means all levelsof conference can be catered for without any difficulty.Systems can be expanded by adding more contributionequipment and introducing PC control with softwaremodules.