Audinate Pty Ltd. and Lawo AG today announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the integration of Dante audio and video technologies into Lawo’s HOME Apps.
Amsterdam, 9 September 2024
This will include the provision of native discovery and management mechanisms for Dante devices and software as well as access to Dante audio and video within Lawo’s HOME management platform.
Seamless Integration of Dante APIs and SDKs into Lawo HOME for Enhanced Interoperability
For seamless interoperability, Lawo intends to integrate Dante APIs and SDKs for access to control, management and media signals for Dante networks directly into HOME. To this end, Lawo will also introduce new Dante Importer (southbound) and Dante Exporter (northbound) services into, and out of, HOME, which will be similar to the approach Lawo developed for the interaction between HOME-native and NMOS-compatible devices.
Memorandum of Understanding
The Memorandum of Understanding underscores the importance of the Dante network protocol in the studio, install and live-sound sectors and will enable the powerful coexistence of the Dante and RAVENNA protocols on a microservice-based application level. Already available for audio hardware, by means of Dante cards installed in a Lawo Power Core modular I/O and DSP gateway, the envisaged integration will now be extended to HOME Apps and also include Dante AV video signals.
Enhanced Audio Source Integration
The most obvious benefit of this collaboration will be the ability to mix a diverse pool of audio sources (Dante, SMPTE ST2110, NDI, SRT, and RAVENNA) with Lawo’s HOME mc² DSP app controlled from an mc² audio or crystal broadcast console, or a headless mixer setup.
HOME Apps’ Dante integration is expected to provide perfect interoperability and agility for a diverse range of Dante-enabled sources and destinations, such as power amplifiers, immersive audio speaker arrays, etc.
“The integration of Dante into HOME Apps is an important milestone for Lawo’s open, unified HOME platform,” states Jamie Dunn, Lawo’s Deputy CEO. “Providing Dante integration on a server-based microservice level is bound to yield a vast range of creative benefits for operators as it helps them navigate the transition to future-proof hardware-abstracted processing.”
“The industry is rapidly transitioning to software-based IP media infrastructure, and Lawo is at the forefront of that transformation” adds Aidan Williams, Co-Founder and CEO of Audinate. “We are excited to partner with Lawo to incorporate Dante into that vision. The integration of Dante into HOME Apps will provide Lawo customers with seamless access to Dante control, management and media signals, enabling entirely new, innovative workflows.”
Audinate and Lawo expect to unveil the result of their epoch-making collaboration for software running on generic compute in early 2025.
About Audinate Group Limited
Audinate Group Limited (ASX:AD8) has a vision to pioneer the future of AV. Audinate’s award winning Dante AV over IP networking solution is the worldwide leader and used extensively in the professional live sound, commercial installation, broadcast, public address, and recording industries. Dante replaces traditional analogue cables by transmitting perfectly synchronized AV signals across large distances, to multiple locations at once, using nothing more than an Ethernet cable. Audinate is headquartered in Australia and has regional offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Belgium and Hong Kong. Dante technology powers products available from hundreds of leading audio and video partners around the world. The company’s ordinary shares are traded on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) under the ticker code AD8. Dante and Audinate are registered trademarks of Audinate Holdings Pty Ltd.
About Lawo
Lawo is a global technology partner with a long history of delivering innovative solutions for live media production workflows. With a unified approach that combines workflow management and control, physical I/O, processing, and human interfaces, Lawo creates optimized solutions for productions including television broadcast and on-air radio, performing arts, houses of worship, and professional AV. Customer value is driven through simplicity, agility, technical and commercial flexibility, and through its team of experts who are passionate about enabling the creation of world-class content. Lawo products are manufactured to highest quality standards in Rastatt, Germany.
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