The Q-SYS Core 5200 Enterprise processor combines Q-SYS, the professional AV industry’s first Intel based real-time operating system purpose built for reconfigurable audio, video and control (AV&C), with the robustness of Dell hardware and their most prolific and world renowned server platform. The Q-SYS Core 5200 is the first professional AV&C product available that illustrates the transition away from proprietary, single-use hardware devices to modern, softwarebased appliances leveraging the power of commercial off-the-shelf server hardware. The Core 5200 provides a modern, IT centric solution for companies or projects wishing to take advantage of centralized signal processing and control while leveraging modern IT network infrastructure to distribute those services projectwide.