Ultimo is a complete, fully-featured, ready-to-use Dante interface for networked audio products, extending the benefits of Audinate’s networking system to a wide new range of audio devices. Integrated into a single 13 x 13mm chip, Ultimo provides an integrated, networked audio solution over a 100Mbps Ethernet interface.
Recognised for innovation in digital media networking, Ultimo Audinate claims to have created ‘the industry’s most economical networked audio solution’, enabling manufacturers to design cost-effective Dante products for the edge of the network. As with Audinate’s other networked products, Ultimo uses high-quality, low-jitter clocks with ±1μs time alignment between networked devices. Ultimo does not require specialised switches, and works with existing network infrastructure.
Ultimo includes well-established Dante features like automatic device discovery, plug-and-play networking, network-based firmware updates, and customization of device names and channel labels.
‘The Ultimo integrated chip solution accelerates the migration from analogue to digital signal distribution,’ says Gary Southwell, Audinate VP of Product Management. ‘It allows our OEMs to achieve their desired cost targets for networked low channel count endpoints for the first time. Ultimo is already a success, and is actively being designed into commercial products by many of the industry’s largest and most recognised A/V OEMs.’
Applications targeted for Ultimo include powered speakers, microphones, speakerphones, amplifiers, paging stations, personal monitoring systems, A/V wall plates, recording interfaces, analogue/digital break-in/break out, and musical instruments.
Product development kits are available now.
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