Following Telos Alliance’ Ravenna announcement at NAB, leading Chinese pro audio technology company Infomedia has joined the Ravenna partnership.
‘Infomedia is actively engaged in the development of audio routing units based on networking technology,’ Zhou Nan, CTO of Infomedia explains. ‘Defined and low latency is one of the key issues for audio routing systems made for radio stations. Another important issue is synchronisation of digital audio clock among the routing units. Since it has previously been impossible to guarantee a fixed synchronisation of digital clock and very low latency with any regular audio-over-IP technology, Infomedia had chosen CobraNet as the transmission and routing protocol some time ago. But as a protocol on the data link tier, CobraNet has some problems with flexibility and scalability.
Ravenna offers the flexibility and scalability of an IP-based protocol, but adds accurate synchronisation of digital audio clock together with a fixed and ultra-low latency. It also offers more features which are also very important to radio customers – high-availability of network connectivity with two network ports in one module. That’s why Infomedia decided to become a Ravenna developer’s affiliate.’
Infomedia has been serving the professional broadcast market for more than ten years, and is also a leading audio technology company around the world. The company provides end-to-end solutions for radio and new media industry with strong expertise in digital recorder technology and radio automation systems. Services include audio and video editing systems, radio and video play-out systems, MCR software for radio, networked audio routing systems, streaming platforms, IP audio codec technology, portable audio recording units and media asset management software.
‘After receiving strong commitment in the US through Telos Alliance, Ravenna technology has now arrived in China,’ Andreas Hildebrand, Senior Product Manager of ALC NetworX. ‘Infomedia has already gained substantial experience in the field of audio networking through their CobraNet implementations. We are very confident, that the skills of Infomedias R&D team will lead to a high-performance Ravenna implementation into their devices as well as to excellent support for Ravenna-based network roll-out.’
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