Audinate Dante is now compatible with more than 3,000 devices

The de facto standard for digital audio networking, Dante, is already the protocol of choice in more than 91 percent of networked audio products currently on the market.

Dante of Audinate, the de facto standard for digital audio networking, has recently reached an impressive milestone with more than 3,000 different products who already use it for audio over IP connectivity.

According to a study by RH Consulting, in January 2021 there were 3,034 Dante devices from 361 different manufacturers. RH Consulting data indicates that Dante is the protocol of choice in more than 91 percent of the products network audio currently on the market.

Audinate announced in January that the total number of OEM brands who now work with Dante has reached the 518, with 133 OEMs currently developing their first Dante-enabled product.

Joshua Rush, senior vice president of marketing at Audinate, said, “It's inspiring to see how many manufacturers and product lines have aligned themselves around Dante. And with 133 OEMs working on their first Dante-enabled product, it's exciting to think how much more that number will grow. “This milestone demonstrates how important Dante has become in creating an interoperable audio ecosystem.”

These figures further cement Dante as the industry's go-to protocol for digital audio networking. Dante enables the distribution of hundreds of channels of uncompressed, multichannel digital audio over standard Ethernet networks, with near-zero latency and perfect synchronization. Dante also allows audio, control, and other data to coexist efficiently on the same network.

To make it easier for manufacturers to add Dante to their product line, Audinate continues to innovate and add new solutions to the Dante portfolio. These include:

The chip Dante Broadway It is a perfect blend of performance, features and economy for mid-level products such as multi-channel amplifiers, smaller DSP units, hardware interfaces and compact mixing consoles. Broadway combines the small form factor of products Last with the most popular features of the powerful module Brooklyn II, including latency as low as 0.25ms and support for Gigabit Ethernet. With up to 16x16 channels, quarter-millisecond latency, Gigabit speeds, and plenty of computing power, Broadway is the foundation for Dante products in many industry segments.

As to Dante Embedded Platform is a software implementation of Dante that provides the tools manufacturers need to make AV as software a reality. It comes complete with an SDK that provides the tools necessary to develop Dante-enabled products built on 32- and 64-bit Arm Cortex-A processors using a Linux operating system and supporting online license activation for OEMs.

The SDK allows manufacturers to validate their own designs for performance and capacity, ensuring strong reliability for end users. A Dante Integrated Platform SDK for x86-based audio products is planned for release in the near future.

The chip Dante the Last Extends the Dante network to endpoint products such as powered speakers, amplifiers, wall plates, and distribution boxes. Like all Audinate products, Ultimo has been designed for quick and easy integration and is supported by a comprehensive network-side API and a series of control interfaces. The accompanying Dante Ultimo Product Development Kit is a full-featured standalone hardware development platform that facilitates design and testing methods for integrating Dante Ultimo into products.

Finally, the module Dante Brooklyn II provides a complete, out-of-the-box Dante interface and can equip a networked audio device with up to 64 channels of bi-directional digital streaming. The Dante API and accompanying Dante Brooklyn II Product Development Kit enable the creation of custom software that can be used for automatic routing, signal tagging, custom control, and monitoring.

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