MediaMatrix, a Peavey Commercial Audio (PCA) brand, has announced the introduction of the third-generation SCION media and control processor, a descendant of the NION platform that leverages ADi’s SHARC DSP architecture to provide a highly scalable and configurable processing system.
It incorporates the new MediaMatrix sNET native AES67 media transport protocol that’s capable of delivering up-to 512 x 512 networked audio channels from a single device. The SCION frame can be configured from an entry level device to a fully featured unit — or something in between — with optional hardware modules.
Sharing some “DNA” elements with NION provides backwards compatibility, allowing integrators to design system upgrades as well as new projects with a straightforward migration path due to NWare 3.0’s new dual-compiler tool that enables SCION and NION nodes to coexist in the same project. NIO card-based I/O is also compatible with SCION.
