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DANTE-ENABLED AV INTEGRATION GUIDE
CONTENT
Content Director Mark J. Pescatore, Ph.D.
[email protected]
Senior Content Manager Wayne Cavadi
Contributor Kat Taub
Art Editor Rob Crossland
Production Managers
Nicole Schilling, Heather Tatrow
A DV E R T I S I N G S A L E S
Managing Vice President of Sales, B2B Tech
Dante AV is designed for Adam Goldstein, [email protected]
deployment on enterprise
networks, offering John Casey, [email protected]
scalable solutions for Janis Crowley, [email protected]
LANs and WANs.
Zahra Majma, [email protected]
Debbie Rosenthal, [email protected]
Andi Tureson [email protected]
Doubling Down on Dante
SVP, MD, B2B Amanda Darman-Allen
Facilities Adding Video to Existing Audio Installations VP, Global Head of Content, B2B
Carmel King
By Kat Taub MD, Content, AV Anthony Savona
VP, Head of US Sales, B2B Tom Sikes
I
Managing VP of Sales, B2B Tech
t’s widely known that Dante is the de facto industry standard for audio transport in Pro AV Adam Goldstein
applications. With the recent additions of Dante AV, Dante Domain Manager, and Dante Head of Production US & UK
Director, Audinate now offers a complete AV-over-IP platform that is inherently interoperable Mark Constance
Head of Design, B2B Nicole Cobban
across thousands of products from hundreds of manufacturers, seamlessly integrating high-
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what’s needed. However, scalability often involves new capabili- applications.
ties and system requirements that necessitate adding new • Dante AV-H: best for limited bandwidth environments and
hardware types to the AV system. Having a comprehensive range applications that incorporate video software, including
of products available is what integrators need to scale effectively. conferencing, lecture capture, and streaming.
The Dante AV family of hardware and software solutions The brilliance behind Dante AV is that it treats video devices
allows manufacturers and end users to add networked video to the same as audio endpoints, using the already-familiar Dante
the Dante platform. It guarantees interoperability between Controller software as a one-stop shop for managing all AV
manufacturers while keeping discovery, configuration, and routing, with separate, independently routable streams for audio
control to a single platform for all audio and video endpoints. It’s and video. This implementation eliminates breakout boxes,
also designed to run on standard 1 GbE networks alongside Dante adapters, and cables—all that users need to do is connect their
audio devices. Dante AV devices to a switch via a standard Ethernet cable.
With Dante’s built-in device discovery, new endpoints appear
Deployment Options in Dante Controller for media routing. The single control man-
With more than 4,000 available endpoints, Dante AV makes it easy agement plane allows for universal configuration of devices,
to break out audio to and from Dante audio devices without the while a single API supports programming for all Dante products,
need for extra hardware or format conversion. Dante AV is also allowing users to change routing and configuration using external
designed for deployment on enterprise networks, offering scalable control interfaces or commands.
solutions for LANs and WANs. IT-level security and management Once the system is installed, the signal routing information is
is available via Dante Domain Manager or SaaS-based Dante stored in the Dante-enabled devices, allowing the Dante ecosys-
Director for enhanced functionality everywhere, supporting tem to run without connected computers. Users don’t have to
granular user access control, alerts and audit logs, and routing worry about re-establishing routes when a device is moved or
media across subnets without complicated network management. power cycled; it “just works,” saving time and setup costs.
Dante AV provides support for different codecs to meet quality,
latency, bandwidth, and application needs. The family includes: A Case Study in Grace
• Dante AV Ultra: delivers visually lossless video with In Southern California, Grace Community Church has come a
deterministic sub-frame latency for use cases where the long way from its humble beginnings in the 1950s. Today, the
highest quality, tightly synced audio and video is required. non-denominational, evangelical megachurch comprises a
• Dante AV-A: designed for one-to-many high-quality, 3,000-seat worship center as well as the original 300-seat
ultra-low latency commercial AV distribution and IMAG chapel, plus several small outbuildings, a family center,
Grace Community Church has a Dante-based AV distribution system throughout its campus.
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children’s center, Master’s Seminary, and a tower featuring five ultra-low latency over a standard gigabit network, and offers
large classrooms. To streamline its AV management and keep embedded audio output via HDMI or SDI as well as PTZ camera
the focus on worship experiences, Grace Community Church has movement control via IP or IR pass-through. Based on the
deployed a large, Dante-based system throughout the campus, pre-existing SDI infrastructure, the church installed three D20H
including video capabilities using Dante AV. models (HDMI) and six D20S units (SDI) across the campus.
Recently, the church created a documentary slated for The premiere at the church was a huge success, and audience
theatrical release, but wanted to broadcast the premiere campus- reactions to the AV experience were highly favorable. The power
wide. Not knowing how large the audience would be for such a of being able to independently route the audio and video streams
venture, the church felt it prudent to have the worship center and while guaranteeing clock synchronization provided the AV team
several overflow rooms prepared to receive guests. It was decided with the tools needed to route de-embedded audio from the main
that the documentary needed to be broadcast in 4K for maximum feed and resynchronize with the video stream before inputting
effect—but while Grace Community Church had a pre-existing the signal into six video matrices serving the overflow rooms and
video distribution system, it could not deliver video reliably. the three large screens in the family center.
The church’s AV team deployed nine Bolin D20 Dante AV As the Grace Community Church install illustrates, Dante’s
Ultra transceivers throughout the campus to facilitate the live strength lies in being manufacturer-agnostic, allowing integra-
video stream from the sanctuary to overflow rooms in the tors to use their preferred devices from more than 550 Dante
satellite buildings. Bolin’s D20 Series, which can be programmed licensees. No special switches are needed, even for video. And
as an encoder or a decoder, are single video channel networked because it’s designed for standard 1 GbE connections, Dante is
AVoIP transceivers that are fully compatible with Dante audio easy to install, configure, administer, manage, and scale for Pro
devices within a Dante ecosystem like the one in place at Grace AV systems.
Community Church. Kat Taub is the product marketing manager, networked AV, at
Each transceiver supports up to 4K60 streaming with Audinate.
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At Issue Tom Lureman
Director, Engineering
and Product
What are the advantages of a Dante Management,
networked solution (audio or video)? AtlasIED
Dante-enabled
Fred solutions reduce
Morgenstern installation time and
Senior Product cost by using stand-
Director, ard Ethernet cables
Neutrik Americas for interconnectivity,
The scale of the Dante addressing the key
ecosystem is signifi- challenges integra-
cant. There are now so tors often face in
many thousands of audio installations.
products available from These solutions offer
hundreds of manufac- unparalleled scalability, allowing easy expansion by adding
turers (including channels or devices through simple network connections.
Neutrik Group) that Dante ensures high-quality audio transmission with minimal
users are very likely to latency, supporting uncompressed, multi-channel audio over
find devices on the standard IP networks. With Dante, users can centrally control
market that are well and manage audio setups, routing signals, configuring devices,
tailored to their particular needs. The interoperability of all these and monitoring performance from a single interface. Its
devices is wonderful. Due to Audinate’s tight control of the Dante widespread adoption ensures compatibility across various
solution, all these devices play well together. Whatever one may professional AV equipment, making it a cost-effective,
believe about closed versus open systems, that’s a great benefit to future-proof solution that leverages existing network
audio engineers who are just trying to get systems to work with a infrastructures.
minimum of problems.
Simon LeDuc
Damian Horne Product and
Product Manager, AJA Technology
Video Systems Manager, Clockaudio
Audinate’s Dante audio North America
networking technology Dante makes instal-
has seen broad adoption lations more cost
in stadiums, arenas, effective. With
conference and event Clockaudio’s CDT100
venues, schools, and MK3 Dante trans-
houses of worship as 1 porter, integrators
GigE has become more save between 30-35%
common in AV infra- off the total project
structures. It has cost just in manhours
simplified AV pipelines and hardware cost,
and made them more not having to send
cost efficient by mic and button cables per microphone back to the rack.
allowing teams to connect audio devices across a facility, campus, Further, you can daisy-chain up to six CDT100s off a single Cat
or venue with a single Ethernet cable versus specialized, sin- 5 network run. Power can also be daisy-chained up to six
gle-purpose cables. Dante AV now brings those same benefits to CDT100s on a single 12-volt, 5-amp power supply. Also, the
facilities and teams looking to transport synchronized, low-latency CDT100 provides pre-made DSP modules for QSC, Biamp,
video-over-IP across these environments, which tools like AJA Symetrix, and Crestron, saving programing time as well.
Dante AV 4K-T and Dante AV 4K-R can help professionals unlock.
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David Missall Paul Richards
Insights Manager for Chief Revenue Officer,
Consultants and TAE PTZOptics
MGMT, Sennheiser Dante networked
Dante is all about solutions offer seamless
scalability and flexibil- integration and
ity. When designing and high-quality transmis-
installing an audio and sion for audio and video
video system for an over standard IP
organization, there networks. This technol-
might be the need to ogy simplifies cabling,
transmit many channels reduces installation
of audio and to more costs, and allows for
places over a single easy scalability. Dante
cable. With Dante- provides low-latency,
enabled videoconfer- synchronized audio and
encing solutions, such video, making it ideal
as the Sennheiser TeamConnect Bars, you can cover larger areas, for Pro AV environments. The robust control software enhances
such as a lecture hall or large meeting room. Simply add extension system management and reliability, ensuring clear, consistent
mics for extra audio coverage or a second external USB camera performance across devices.
without additional cabling or configuration. This simplicity is
fantastic due to the scalability within a Dante network.
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Clockaudio CDT100
MK3 Dante Transporter
The Clockaudio Dante Transporter is a professional Dante interface
that seamlessly combines audio and control transport through
Ethernet. Users benefit from advanced Dante technology and a
high-performance hardware platform, ensuring flawless audio
quality and easy integration with a system. The CDT100 is ideal for
boardrooms, conference rooms, videoconference setups, and other
venues, effectively linking multiple table microphones and control
devices to the AV equipment cabinet.
PTZOptics Link 4K AtlasIED Atmosphere Dante
The PTZOptics Link 4K PTZ camera is designed for UHD video production. It Developed and designed based on industry
features 4K resolution at 60 fps and supports various outputs, including HDMI, feedback, the AtlasIED Dante-enabled
USB, and IP streaming. With 12, 20, and 30x optical zoom options and advanced Atmosphere DSPs revolutionize the product
AI auto-tracking capabilities, the Link 4K ensures precise video. The Link 4K family and expand the platform’s capabilities.
integrates seamlessly into Pro AV setups, making it ideal for broadcasting, live Engineered for flexibility and usability,
streaming, and high-quality videoconferencing. Atmosphere combines digital audio
processors, amplifiers, GUIs, programming
software, and controls to set a new operational
and performance standard for digital audio
systems. The Dante-enabled Atmosphere
signal processors provide enhanced
interoperability, scalability, and flexibility to a
broad range of applications, including
ballrooms and large meeting rooms.
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AJA Video Systems AJA Dante AV 4K-T and 4K-R
Incorporating high-quality, visually lossless video into AV-over-IP environments is
simple using AJA Dante AV 4K-T and 4K-R. The transmitter and receiver make it easy
to convert between Dante AV and 12G-SDI or HDMI 2.0. Users can easily manage audio
and video streams from the AJA Dante AV 4K-T and 4K-R with Audinate’s popular
Dante Controller software. Ultra-low latency and time synchronization ensure perfect
lip sync to in-venue screens and for broadcasts and streams.
NEUTRIK NA-2120-DLINE
NEUTRIK’s NA-2I2O-DLINE line I/O to Dante
breakout box simultaneously provides two
channels of Dante input plus two channels of
Dante output. Designed for harsh stage
conditions, NA-2I2O-DLINE features lockable
chassis connectors for both audio and network
connections. Its rugged rubber protection
cover can be removed for fixed installations.
Optional mounting accessories allow the device
to be mounted below tables, in floor boxes, or
equipment racks.
Sennheiser TeamConnect Bar Solutions
Part of the Sennheiser TeamConnect Family, the TeamConnect Bar Solutions are scalable, all-in-one
conferencing devices, designed to meet modern meeting demands with built-in camera, microphones,
and speakers. With options for small (TeamConnect Bar S) or mid-sized (TeamConnect Bar M) meeting
and collaboration spaces, the TeamConnect Bar Solutions easily integrate with major meeting platforms
and can be further enhanced with other compatible products, including those from Sennheiser.
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