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 AES67 Practical Guide 

 

 

 

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Outlook on emerging technologies and industry standards 

3.1

 

ANEMAN  

ANEMAN  (

A

udio 

Ne

twork 

Man

ager)  is  free  software  from  Merging  Technology  which  allows 

connection between AES67 devices much like Dante controller does for Dante. However, because of 
the  wide  range  of  AES67  devices,  compatibility  with  ANEMAN  is  achieved  on  a  per  manufacturer 
basis. Several manufacturers have already boarded the project started by Digigram and Merging and 
many more are coming.  

 

ANEMAN

 

S

CREEN SHOT

:

 

O

VERVIEW WITH CONNECTION MATRIX

 

ANEMAN will be released end of June 2017 (

www.merging.com/aneman

). 

3.2

 

NMOS  

NMOS (Networked Media Open Specifications)

31

 – hosted by the AMWA (Advanced Media Workflow 

Association)

32

 – is a growing family of specifications which are available to both suppliers and end 

users, at no cost, to support the development of products and services which work within an open 
industry  framework.  The  goal  for  this  initiative  and  the  Open  Specifications  is  to  deliver 
interoperability and increase the choice of products across a wide range of suppliers, allowing flexible, 
cost-effective system designs. 

Following the JT-NM Reference Architecture, NMOS addresses functionalities beyond the transport 
and synchronization of media over networks to further foster interoperability between devices from 
different manufacturers. Current work includes: 

                                                             

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http://www.nmos.tv

 

 

32

 

http://www.amwa.tv

  

Summary of Contents for AES67

Page 1: ...y By implementing the standards definitions and requirements devices otherwise adhering to specific AoIP protocols that don t interoperate with each other i e Dante Livewire QLAN or RAVENNA can establish direct connectivity and become interoperable However while the standard defines what protocols and functions need to be supported it still leaves various choices open to the implementer and by nat...

Page 2: ...best available master clock is elected to serve as the Grandmaster for all participating AES67 nodes In the guidelines section hints are provided on how the Grandmaster selection can be modified if required Once a node is synchronized to the wall clock time served by the Grandmaster any desired media clock can be generated locally If the synchronization precision is accurate enough all locally gen...

Page 3: ...PTP and audio stream traffic receive prioritized forwarding on their way through the network AES67 mandates for support of Differentiated Services DiffServ 5 a QoS scheme where different types of traffic can be categorized into service classes DiffServ works with 64 different priority tags DSCP6 values which can be applied to individual IP packets End nodes can apply different tags to different tr...

Page 4: ... streams has also been deliberately excluded from the standard requirements While a number of protocols exist to announce available streams and transport the related SDP data the creators of the AES67 standard felt that it would have been too stringent to actually mandate for a specific method instead they decided to just mention some widely used protocols and to leave it to the device manufacture...

Page 5: ...rse makes configuration relatively easy As the network becomes larger star or tree topologies11 come in to play In larger corporate networks spanning multiple subnets it can be essential to have a deterministic route for any given connection in this case a leaf spine architecture12 would be the most preferred topology 2 1 1 3 Bandwidth In any case it needs to be assured that ample bandwidth on any...

Page 6: ...ed installation running on a single LAN IP addressing is required In general there are three methods to assign IP addresses and every device including the switches requires an IP address DHCP an automatic IP address assignment which requires the presence of a DHCP server in most cases this can be one of the switches if a dedicated DHCP server is not present While this method is very convenient as ...

Page 7: ...able depending on your network situation16 2 1 4 QoS Since clock and audio traffic require high forwarding priorities AES67 end nodes support DiffServ QoS and assign certain DSCP tags to those IP packets The switches need to be configured to support DiffServ QoS and prioritized forwarding Most switches have layer 2 CoS QoS17 enabled by default this needs to be changed to layer 3 DiffServ QoS Once ...

Page 8: ...olved in configuration of such networks we limit the discussion of PTP planning to a single LAN segment without PTP aware switches 2 1 5 1 PTP parameters In most cases PTP aware switches are not required in LAN segments up to a medium size several tenths of end nodes With standard COTS switches proper QoS configuration should result in a decent PTP performance However there are a few parameters of...

Page 9: ...sages contain certain parameters about the clock quality which are compared in certain precedence 1 Priority 1 Field This is a user settable value The lowest number wins Normally this is set at 128 for master capable devices and 255 for slave only devices However if you want to overrule the normal selection criteria you can change Priority 1 and create any pecking order you wish 2 Clock Class This...

Page 10: ...Most AES67 systems or devices provide means of discovering available streams on the network and support protocol based communication of these SDP parameters The methods and protocols supported usually relate to the native networking solution those devices adhere to RAVENNA Livewire and Dante all offer discovery and connection management functionality which of course includes the transfer of SDP da...

Page 11: ...s discovery and SDP related data traffic no audio is passed through the PC unless your PC also hosts an AES67 capable virtual sound card 2 2 Device configuration 2 2 1 IP configuration Select the method of IP assignment DHCP Zeroconf manual static In case of static IP assignment make sure you don t assign any IP address twice and that the subnet mask matches your intended network configuration In ...

Page 12: ...nfiguring individual streams 2 2 3 3 Discovery While most devices also use their native discovery method for announcement of AES67 streams some devices offer the ability to enable other discovery options on demand i e enable SAP support 2 2 3 4 Audio related configuration Some devices support different sampling rates but only one may be selected at any given time usually because a device only has ...

Page 13: ...roseconds are usually sufficient sub microseconds are perfect If you don t have proper sync on all end nodes you have to resolve this situation before proceeding any further i e configuring streams You may want to check on these potential issues SYNC message rate too low some devices require a certain sync message rate in order to reach a stable locking situation Try to decrease the SYNC message i...

Page 14: ...t streaming only as this is the method commonly available on all AES67 devices Configuring and connecting to multicast streams almost always follows these two basic steps 1 Configure and start a multicast stream on the sender node 2 Make the related SDP data available to the desired receiving node 3 Connect to the selected stream Execution of these steps usually varies between individual devices i...

Page 15: ...used Payload select from pre defined stream formats here AES67 standard stereo Address enter desired multicast address27 or leave at auto for automatic assignment The most essential choice is of course on the number of channels in the stream and which channels to incorporate from the individual device Select the desired audio channel pair from the drop down menu 27 See 2 2 3 2 Multicast address ra...

Page 16: ...reo stream in L24 48 kHz data format from audio channels 7 8 with an automatically assigned multicast address The stream is immediately started and available on the network The stream packets will reach the first switch where they are dropped unless another device has registered to this stream by IGMP RVSC SCREEN SHOT OVERVIEW WITH 1 TX STREAM CREATED ...

Page 17: ...o this stream the desired receiver device needs access to the respective SDP data While AES67 specifies the required SDP data it does not mandate for a specific method to convey this data Most AoIP solutions offer means for advertising discovering available streams and transporting the SDP data automatically If no common method is available between sender and receiver device manual SDP data transf...

Page 18: ... later pasted by opening the related SDP data record The RVSC provides a link to the SDP data set when creating the Tx stream RVSC SCREEN SHOT TX STREAM SDP LINK The link allows direct access to the SDP data by any device supporting RTSP Since RTSP is very similar to HTTP and the SDP data is formatted in ASCII text the link can also be used to access the SDP data with any browser simply copy and p...

Page 19: ...respective stream to the desired receiver This can either be done manually or with support of a discovery connection management method 2 4 4 1 Connecting to an AES67 stream with discovery support If a common discovery method is supported by both the sender and receiver connecting to a stream should be as easy as identifying the desired stream in the receiver s user interface usually by name and ex...

Page 20: ... 28 RVSC SCREEN SHOT RX STREAM PROPERTIES STREAM SOURCE SELECTION In the Stream Source drop down box select the desired stream from the list The related SDP file will automatically be accessed and all relevant parameters are filled in ...

Page 21: ... time plus any jitter the packet may experience while being transported across the network Since the packet time in AES67 is 1 ms the delay needs to be larger than 48 samples plus sufficient delay to cope with the packet jitter29 Other devices or AoIP systems may offer predefined sometimes even system wide latency classes like low medium high or the equivalent The final step is to assign the chann...

Page 22: ...AES67 Practical Guide Page 22 of 28 RVSC SCREEN SHOT RX STREAM PROPERTIES CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT Once assigned from the drop down list hit Apply and the receiver will connect to the selected stream ...

Page 23: ...IEW WITH 1 RX STREAM CONNECTED The RVSC offers statistic displays where the current packet jitter can be visualized other devices may offer numerical values to indicate current PDV RVSC SCREEN SHOT STATISTICS WITH PACKET JITTER AND RECEIVER BUFFER UTILIZATION ...

Page 24: ...to manually type in the respective values The RVSC offers the option to type in or paste a complete SDP data set Open the Rx creation dialog Connect Rx Stream select Show raw SDP and double click into the large empty field which just opened up This field is now in edit mode and ready to accept the SDP data input30 Simply paste the copied SDP data provided by the sender into this field and modify i...

Page 25: ...again apply desired latency setting and assign channels as in the previous example and hit Apply The stream is now being connected to and it shows up with the edited name in the Rx section of the overview screen RVSC SCREEN SHOT OVERVIEW WITH 2 RX STREAMS CONNECTED ...

Page 26: ... aneman 3 2 NMOS NMOS Networked Media Open Specifications 31 hosted by the AMWA Advanced Media Workflow Association 32 is a growing family of specifications which are available to both suppliers and end users at no cost to support the development of products and services which work within an open industry framework The goal for this initiative and the Open Specifications is to deliver interoperabi...

Page 27: ...eveloped using Internet standards or Internet friendly techniques They are complementary to and co exist with industry specifications and standards for example VSF TR 03 SMPTE ST 2110 and AES67 3 3 SMPTE ST 2110 SMPTE ST 2110 is an emerging suite of standards defining synchronized elementary essence transport video audio metadata on IP networks The basic principles are very similar or even identic...

Page 28: ...erved obstacles when setting up an AES67 network We have seen how to prepare for network setup with particular emphasis on IP addressing network topology and switch configuration followed by device configuration to be checked before connecting to the network Some tools have also been presented that will help establishing interoperability or even manage devices More tools and industry standards are...

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