Systems Integration Asia – April-May 2018

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Audinate Lauds Network Effect at ISE 2018

Audinate's message at ISE was that the scale and power of the
network has considerable potenal for growth and value — for
systems integrators, IT professionals and end-users.

Audinate, whose mission is to simplify and advance the deployment
and operaon of sophiscated, powerful AV networks, had two major
introducons at ISE, each addressing crical areas of evoluon for the
prototypical AV Network. First, Audinate offered the Dante AVIO line
of adapters that are essenally simple, super-cost-efficient on- and
off-ramps for analog, broadcast and IT technologies onto a Dante
network. Second, the company announced the immediate worldwide
availability of Dante Domain Manager, its award-winning network
management plaorm.

Each Dante AVIO adapter
acts as a completely
independent Dante
network device, allowing
legacy audio products to
seamlessly transmit high
quality, uncompressed
audio streams over long
distances without the noise and ground issues common to analog
connecons. Being part of a Dante system also allows for nearly
unlimited scalability while providing incredibly low latency and easy
configuraon. Dante AVIO adapters enable audio professionals to
extend the value of their non-networked equipment, making it
interoperable with any of the more than 1300 Dante-enabled
products on the market. Starng with a list price of only $129 USD,
the Dante AVIO Series includes line-in and line-out analog adapters, a
bi-direconal AES3/EBU adapter and a bi-direconal stereo USB
adapter.

“Among the most compelling features of the AVIO line is the price,”
noted Joshua Rush, Audinate Vice President of Markeng, stand-side
at ISE. “It's stripped down in feature-set and price to serve a market
that was not being served and enable systems integrators, IT pros and
end-users who had no viable access to Dante.”

In adding the AVIO line, Audinate complements the offerings of OEM
partners across a number of AV and IT product categories and,
according to Rush, expands the scale of the network to the common
advantage. “The power of a network is in its scale and universality,”
he notes. “With the AVIO line, we've added a sub-layer on the
cost/volume connuum that grows the universe of Dante-connected
devices. This, in turn, makes every device on the network more
useful!”

Also new and crically important at ISE, was the introducon of

Audinate Dante Domain Manager. Dante Domain Manager is an

award-winning network management plaorm that sits on top of the

Dante network and provides enterprise-grade system administraon

and security to the AV universe. Dante Domain Manager makes AV

networking more secure, scalable and manageable and enables AV

and IT professionals to define specific AV device groupings by room,

building and site, through the creaon of independent Dante

Domains. Each domain has mulple access levels to improve network

security, and enables scalability by allowing audio roung across

mulple IP subnets.

Dante Domain Manager applies the domain concept pioneered by

the IT industry to differenate and manage mulple private networks

within the same infrastructure. Audinate is applying this same

approach to AV, while customizing the features to the needs of AV

professionals and end-users.

Available in three edions, Dante Domain Manager can be tailored to

meet user needs and budgets. The Silver edion is ideal for

installaons that primarily require user management, such as smaller

houses of worship or schools, with a maximum of two domains and

10 audio devices. The Gold edion includes integraon with Acve

Directory and is suited for many mid-sized business environments,

supporng up to 10 domains and 50 devices. The Planum edion

covers management needs of large-scale installaons and expands

support to up to 50 domains and up to 250 devices. This edion

includes SNMP alerng and a fully redundant “high availability”

opon for mission-crical systems.

“AV networking just moved beyond connecvity and control,” Rush

explains. “Dante Domain Manager is the next great advance of AV

and I am confident that it will provide systems integrators, IT pros and

end-users with a host of advantages — not least security.”

Rush notes that security has become a must-have in AV networking

over a very short period of me. “When we envisioned Dante Domain

Manager, security was a very important consideraon. Now it's table-

stakes. It's for this reason that Dante Domain Manager is such a

crical success here at ISE. Integrators are approaching us with

specific projects in mind —churches, schools, enterprise and

government jobs where a bid will not be considered without

comprehensive security. Dante Domain Manager delivers,

comprehensively!

Now is an extremely excing me for Audinate. AV networking has hit

an inflecon point wherein it's providing greater value, applicaons

and protecons everyday. We're right there at the cung edge —

expanding the sub-layer to be more inclusive and adding a top-layer

of funconality and security. In doing so, we're working with our OEM

partner community and teams of hardware and soware developers

to innovate and deliver the very best networking technologies, and

we've had a phenomenal response here at Integrated Systems

Europe!”

http://www.audinate.com

AVIO 2CH Analog-In connectors

Dante Domain Manager network security monitoring