Netstage designs, commissions and supports reliable IP networks for theatre, live events and entertainment technology — connecting lighting, audio, video, control and management systems.
Production network services
Modern productions rely on IP infrastructure that has to perform when the show starts. Netstage designs networks specifically for entertainment environments, combining enterprise networking principles with practical production experience.
Network Design
End-to-end architecture for production networks including switching, routing, VLANs, multicast, QoS, redundancy and resilient infrastructure.
Commissioning & Troubleshooting
Configuration, testing and fault-finding for new and existing production networks, from multicast behaviour and IGMP through to show-critical connectivity.
Monitoring & Management
Monitoring and management solutions that provide engineers with clear visibility of production infrastructure and help identify problems before they affect a show.
Training & Consultancy
Practical production-network training and technical consultancy for venues, integrators and production teams.
System architecture
One Network. Every Department.
Production networks increasingly carry multiple disciplines. We shape the architecture around segregation, multicast design and resilience so lighting, audio, video, control and management systems can work together without compromising the show.
From sACN and Art-Net to Dante, AES67, NDI, OSC and PTP, Netstage works across the protocols that make modern entertainment systems communicate.
Lighting
Audio
Video
Show Control
Automation
Management
Built From Production Experience
Netstage combines professional networking knowledge with hands-on experience of live production and entertainment technology. Our approach is shaped by environments where reliability matters, changes happen quickly and infrastructure needs to remain understandable to the engineers who operate it. From lighting-control and AV-over-IP systems to multicast, monitoring and show-critical network architecture, we design around the realities of production rather than treating entertainment networks like ordinary office IT.
Built for Production Technology
Entertainment networks combine protocols with very different requirements. We design infrastructure with multicast behaviour, timing, segmentation, redundancy and operational workflows in mind from the beginning.
sACN
Art-Net
Dante
AES67
NDI
OSC
PTP
DMX / RDM
Multicast / IGMP
VLANs
QoS
Engineering Knowledge From The Lab
The Lab is where we share practical research, tools and technical insight into production networking — from multicast behaviour and IGMP to entertainment protocols and network diagnostics.
Building or Troubleshooting a Production Network?
Whether you’re designing a new venue, upgrading existing infrastructure or trying to understand a network that isn’t behaving as expected, Netstage can help.
