Audinate has announced a partnership with ASPEED Technology to extend Dante AV to the latter’s AV-over-IP chipset, with the new version — dubbed Dante AV-A — optimized to work on the ASPEED AST1530/1535 SoC (System on Chip) and initially supported by nine AV manufacturers.
Dante AV-A is designed to deliver high-quality video up to 4Kp60 4:4:4 resolution and two channels of audio that are compatible with Dante audio products to help simplify distributed AV system design. Independently routable audio and video flows means breaking out audio to installed DSPs, amplifiers and loudspeakers can be done with a single click.
Dante Controller software handles all audio and video device routing while Dante Domain Manager provides IT-level management, including continuous system monitoring, audit logs, and user access control.
“We are excited to partner with Audinate to bring Dante AV to the ASPEED platform,” states Chris Lin, chairman and president of ASPEED. “Our goal is to continue to add value to our manufacturing partners and their customers, and Dante AV is an increasingly requested feature. This partnership allows us to prequalify Dante as part of the AST1530/1535 SoC and make it available to ASPEED customers through our SDK, making it as easy as possible for OEMs and ODMs to add Dante AV to their products.”
Audinate CEO Aidan Williams adds, “As one of the most widely used SoCs in the AV-over-IP market, ASPEED is an important strategic partner for Audinate. This partnership and the introduction of Dante AV-A is an important addition to the Dante AV family, making it easy for manufacturers to integrate Dante AV and giving customers the greatest choice of hardware products that are all interoperable through the Dante control and management software.”
As noted, nine manufacturing partners have licensed Dante AV-A, including AMX by Harman, Aurora Multimedia, AVPro Global, Cypress, GoMax, HDCVT, ProAVIT, SY Electronics and WyreStorm. Audinate will provide a demo of Dante AV-A using the new WyreStorm encoders and decoders at booth 2821 at InfoComm.
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