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EtherSound Accelerates at Pro Light + Sound
"This network was a major step for EtherSound as it shows how fast our technology has expanded. We are very proud that only two years after its first appearance at Prolight+Sound, EtherSound has been adopted by major players of the pro audio industry, who now offer a broad range of products to the market place," said Philippe Delacroix, Digigram managing director. "All these devices can share the same network and, in combination, provide powerful audio networking solutions to numerous markets: background music and paging, live sound, logging, and broadcast.
"The presence of companies specializing in live sound among the EtherSound licensees is truly remarkable," Delacroix added. "Many people have stated in the past that networked audio and live sound are incompatible due to network latency issues. But EtherSound offers a latency of only 125 microseconds and events like the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2003 Rugby World Cup or the Carmen concert in Stade de France have shown that this technology matches the demanding requirements of live performances."
The combined product offering of the EtherSound licensees now includes break-out boxes for EtherSound I/O connectivity, mixing consoles, loudspeaker controllers, ceiling speakers, control interfaces, multichannel sound cards, as well as integrated security systems. Digigram, NetCIRA, Nexo, InnovaSON, and Auvitran launch new products on Prolight+Sound.
The booths connected to the Prolight+Sound EtherSound network were Digigram, NetCIRA, and Nexo, who hosted Auvitran as a co-exhibitor in hall 8; InnovaSON, German Digigram distributor Audio Export, and German Tyco-Bouyer distributor F&S Elektroakustik in hall 4.1; as well as German NetCIRA distributor Mega Audio in hall 5.1. Each booth injected two audio signals into the EtherSound network for a total of 14 network channels that were available to all booths.
More than 6km of cabling were provided by the Pro Light+Sound organizers to build the network infrastructure, which included cables runs of up to 1,400 metres. A combination of standard Ethernet fibre optics, CAT5 cables, and switches were used to interconnect the devices and the system combined star and daisy-chain architectures for an overall network topology that only EtherSound is able to provide.
6th April 2004
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