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by j_spencer 2175 days ago
I work in a lot of live sound settings and it's common to see Dante[1] cards coming with a lot of audio consoles these days. It's a proprietary protocol (with support for 1024 channels at 32-bit / 192kHz over a single link); add-in cards for consoles can be quite expensive.

A lot of the time, we're needing to connect devices to Dante through a Dante interface (which can be expensive) or via a Dante Virtual Soundcard.

It will be interesting to see AES67 appearing more in consoles, especially lower end consoles. Hopefully this will open up Audio over IP to more audio professionals without resorting to proprietary protocols which can make it hard to connect systems from various vendors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_(networking)