Lawo has announced Power Core Max, a AES67 mixing engine capable of supporting up to four independent Lawo mixing surfaces.

In addition to its extremely large processing capcity, routing and I/O capabilities, Power Core has 96 available DSP channels and the capacity to handle hundreds of analogue, digital and AES67 audio signals.

Lawo maintains that Power Core may be the most powerful DSP mixing engine so far conceived for AoIP networks: ‘With the Power Core Max licence pack, a single engine can be controlled by more than one mixing surface,’ says Lawo Radio Marketing specialist, Clark Novak. ‘Project managers are excited about the ability to support two, three, and sometimes even four mixing consoles. This makes Power Core Max perfect for large multi-studio projects, but broadcasters with medium and smaller facilities can use it as the I/O gateway and mixing engine for an entire radio station! There’s nothing else like it.’

Customers can choose from a number of licence packages tailored to a variety of operational needs and price points. The new Max package allows connection of as many as four independent Ruby mixing surfaces to a single Power Core engine suited to today’s multi-studio radio facilities.

Introduced as a DSP mixing engine and modular I/O system for Ruby radio consoles, many broadcasters are now using Power Core as a gateway between legacy audio formats and standards-based IP media networks, thanks to its abundant I/O capacity and a flexible licence set that helps tailor capabilities to required workflows.

Key features:

• Up to 96 fader channels distributed among up to four physical Ruby consoles or VisTool virtual mixers.
• 1920x1920 internal routing matrix.
• 80 user-definable summing busses and 96 channels of DSP: compression, limiting.
• 128 dual-redundant Madi channels and 128 AES67/Ravenna channels, standard.
• Eight expansion slots for even more mic, analogue, AES3, AES67 and Dante I/O.
• Dual-redundant front-panel SFP ports for AoIP. Now, broadcasters have their choice of optical or copper network connections, sans the cost of external  edia converters.
• ST2022-7 Seamless Protection Switching for dual-redundant AoIP network connections.
• ST2110-30 compliance for seamless interoperability of audio and video equipment in combined radio/TV broadcast.
• 1U-high chassis.

More: www.lawo.com