Crestron DigitalMedia Announces Support for Dante Network Audio Protocol

Two industry standards for AV signal management and distribution, Networked control and audio have now come together to enable seamless integration, fully digital and interoperability.

The multinational Crestron has announced that its versatile range of Digital Media video distribution systems (DM), Developed to connect remote sources to an extended display, as well as for connecting local sources, among many other possibilities, now supports Dante audio networking protocol, with its new input and output matrix switcher paths for 64×64 y 128×128.

In this sense, now shipping 4K HDMI and Digita Media switching for Dante (DMB-4K-I-HD-DNT) offers eight HDMI inputs, while 4K HDMI and DM output switching for Dante (DMB-4K-O-HD-DNT) Provides eight HDMI outputs with built-in 4K upscaling, and CEC embedded control is possible with the addition of a control system.

Dante is the industry's preferred networking protocol for streaming high-definition audio over Ethernet, Adopted by professional audiovisual system manufacturers more than any other networking technology. With this ideal integration, fully digital and interoperability with DM, The industry standard for AV and control signal management and distribution is possible.

One of its most common applications is with videoconferencing systems.. Send content from a source, a laptop for example, and connect it to the HDMI port of the DMB-4K-I-HD-DNT. Internal processing extracts high-definition audio and outputs Dante over Ethernet through the LAN port of the DM CPU.

Audio is sent to a local DSP (such as the new Avia DSP with the support of Dante supported soon by Crestron) in a conference room, that mixes the audio of the program with the microphones. The mixed audio is then sent to a codec.

The opposite configuration, although it is not so common, It is also simple: Dante output audio connects to the LAN port of the DM CPU, is processed internally, and then sent as HDMI to a local display.