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Sand and ACN at USITT

Sand Network Systems and major players in the lighting industry reaffirmed their commitment to the ACN standard in the form of another very successful ESTA Interconnectivity Pavilion at the recent USITT 2004 Conference and Trade Show in Long Beach, California.

"The ACN effort has gathered significant momentum and the Interconnectivity Pavilion proved that interest is growing across a wide spectrum of industry participants, from manufacturers to end users. ACN benefits from continued active support among major manufacturers like ETC, Strand, and Martin, as well as from ESTA and PLASA," says Hans Lau, president of Sand Network Systems.

Sand Network Systems showcased several ACN products based on draft 1.0 including SandNet ACN – Middleware with full implementation of ACN and support for other Ethernet based lighting control protocols. Features include user friendly ‘drag and drop’ mapping of ACN devices to DMX and RDM for control of legacy equipment. SandBox ACN is a portable ACN Ethernet to DMX and RDM interface. ACNE is an Advanced Control Network Explorer, a full-featured ACN device browser and network analyzer with traffic logging. DDLFactory is a utility that will build Device Description Language files in XML format from legacy fixture libraries. TripleHeader is a DDL file browser that concurrently will display XML code, the XML tree structure, and the corresponding ACN memory map.

"These types of interfaces and utilities are essential for a successful implementation of ACN. Sand Network Systems holds significant expertise in this area of network technology and will continue to develop support products to facilitate a rapid deployment of ACN," says chief technology officer Yngve Sandboe.

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Sand and ACN at USITT

8th April 2004

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