Digital Audio Networking with Dante AES Melbourne 2015 Aidan Williams CTO Audinate 2015-04- 20 1
Introduction CTO & Founder, Audinate We make Dante audio networking Elec Eng / Computer Science background Amateur musician, audio technology geek A networking guy in the audio world 2015-04- 20 2
Agenda Network & IT The Basics The Dante Toolbox Demonstration Hands on play / discussion 2015-04- 20 3
The Dante Toolbox April, 2015 2015-04- 20 4
Outline Background What is Dante? Inside the toolbox 2015-04- 20 5
Background 2015-04- 20 6
Background Dante began as an R&D Project in 2004 NICTA government R&D lab Initial technology development Audinate founded in 2006 Spinout from NICTA First product: Dolby Lake Processor Offices Sydney, Australia; Portland, USA; Brighton, UK; Networking people IP networking, zeroconf, clock sync, QoS, 2015-04- 20 7
Audinate revolutionizes AV systems to enable our customers to thrive in a networked world 2015-04- 20 8
Audinate recognized as one of the fastest growing technology companies
160 Dante: The market leader with over 200 OEMs and growing 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 Jan- 10 Jan- 11 Jan- 12 Jan- 13 Jan- 14 2010 2011 6/2012 8/2013 2/2014
Dante is the most interoperable solution 2015-04- 20 11
What is Dante? 2015-04- 20 12
Dante is a complete solution toolkit For manufacturers Embedding Dante into their equipment Hardware, Software, Documentation, For users Reliable, interoperable networking between manufacturers Dante Virtual Soundcard Dante for PC/Mac computers Dante Controller Manage & monitor your network Plug and Play discovery One click routing Network health and monitoring 2015-04- 20 13
Dante Benefits Easy to Set Up Plug and play automatic discovery and simple signal routing No special skills required to set up audio networking Flexible Can support up to 512 bi- directional audio channels per Gb switch Supports a single integrated network for audio, video, control and monitoring Improved Audio Quality Doesn t suffer from hum, ground loops, degradation with long cable runs Accurate clocks synchronized to ±1μs Nearly imperceptible latency Cost Effective No need for expensive copper analog cable Uses widely available, economical CAT- 5e and CAT- 6 cable Leverages existing network components, PCs or Macs 2015-04- 20 14
Dante speaks the IT managers language Manage Addressing : DHCP Device Discovery: mdns User Friendly names: DNS- SD Quality of Service: Diffserv Unicast and multicast transport Efficient, VLANs not required Multicast management: IGMP Snooping No special switches are required IT managers may used their preferred switches and management tools 2015-04- 20 15
Dante is easy to use It seems pretty much idiot- proof. The whole networking thing was really easy to set up, because it auto- seeks, so you re not going through network protocols to make the computers talk to each other. It just works. It finds itself, it finds all its buddies, and it just goes. Device discovery User editable names One-click routing 2015-04- 20 16
Inside the toolbox 2015-04- 20 17
Dante Hardware Options Brooklyn II Module Up to 64 x 64 channels 24- bit 48/96 khz sample rate Small form factor Redundancy Dante PCIe Card 256 channels of uncompressed, digital audio 128 bidirectional channels at 48kHz and 96kHz, 64 channels at 192kHz Ultra- low latency Ultimo Up to 4x 4 Audio Channels Support for PoE Power consumption: less than 1W End Point Solution 18
Ultimo Features Cost effective for low channel 2x2 audio channels 4x4 audio channels (new) Standard Dante features Auto Discovery Label- based routing Plug and play operation Control via Dante API Low power consumption High quality, low jitter clocks GPIO support Switch chip support 100Mbps 1Gbps 1ms latency 512 x 512 daisy chain 100Mbps 100Mbps 2015-04- 20 19
Hardware Brooklyn II Module High performance FPGA Up to 64x64 channels @48kHz 32x32 simultaneous streams 150μs minimum latency 8x8 I2S/TDM interfaces 1Gbps/100Mbps 44.1kHz/48kHz multiples +4.1667%, ±0.1%, - 4% Serial bridging (UART) Packet bridging (SPI) Linux development environment 2015-04- 20 20
Hardware PCIe Card High performance PC interfacing 128x128 channels @ 96kHz 150μs minimum latency PCM24 or floating point Windows, Mac OS X Applications: Recording Wave field synthesis Native DSP 2015-04- 20 21
Dante Virtual Soundcard Connects existing audio applications to a Dante network DAW software Conferencing (e.g. Skype) Recording and playback Up to 64x64 channels Uses built- in Ethernet Appears as a soundcard Core Audio (Mac) ASIO + WDM (Win) 2015-04- 20 22
Dante Controller Simple plug and play signal routing application Configure Sample rate Word clock I/O Network latency Clock master preferences Diagnostics Link up/down, throughput, errors, clock monitoring, etc Latency Statistics Network Health Free Download 2015-04- 20 23
Dante Via Use audio ports with Dante Built- in, USB, Firewire, TB Route to/from applications Flexible inside- the- pc routing 2015-04- 20 24