DANTE ACCELERATOR
Getting Started
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About Dante
Audinate's Dante technology is a protocol
used to provide audio transmission that
meets the quality and performance
requirements of professional live sound,
AV installations and broadcast and
recording systems.
Designed to fully exploit the capabilities of
today and tomorrow’s networking device,
Dante provides media transport
mechanisms that eliminate many
traditional audio network design
restrictions. Dante makes it easy to set up
robust, flexible digital audio networks. A
Dante network can be designed with
mixed Gigabit and 100Mbps network
speeds, simultaneously support audio
with different sample rates and bit-depths,
and even allow the design of network
zones with different latencies.
Dante is built on IP (Internet Protocols) -
not just Ethernet. Because it uses
standard IP over Ethernet, Dante is
capable of running on off-the-shelf
computer networking hardware.
Dante provides sample-accurate
synchronization and can deliver the very
low latency required by professional
audio.
Dante’s network-centric, audio-
independent approach to synchronization
allows perfectly synchronized playout
across different audio channels, devices
and networks, even over multiple network
switches.
About Dante
Dante makes networking a true plug-and-
play process, allowing automatic device
discovery and system configuration.
Dante-enabled devices will automatically
setup their network configuration and
advertise themselves and their channels
on the network, reducing complicated,
error-prone set-up procedures. Instead of
“magic numbers”, networked devices and
their input and output signals can be
named to make sense to the user.
Dante is not restricted to allowing
configuration and transmission of audio
channels. Dante also provides
mechanisms to send or receive control
signals and monitoring information across
the Dante IP network, including device-
specific messages and control signals
specified and developed by a particular
manufacturer.
For more information, please visit the
Audinate website at www.audinate.com.
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