All CobraNet® Parts are RoHS compliant.
Rane Corporation is an established innovator in problem-solving audio tools, professionally engineered with a focus on science, price/performance, and not frills and hype. Rane was the third licensee for CobraNet®. All Rane products are designed and manufactured exclusively in the United States, Rane’s product distribution is worldwide. Rane’s primary marketplaces are Commercial (music & paging, networked systems), Live Sound (FOH and monitoring) and DJ (performance, club, mobile & recording) featuring innovative analog and digital audio products for each category.
The Mongoose and its Tracker software work with Rane’s Remotes Audio Devices (RADs) and your CobraNet network to deliver digital audio to the “last mile” of installations – between the equipment room/rack and remote spaces. OK, it’s not a mile, we lied: it’s actually 150 meters (492 feet to those in Liberia, Myanmar and the USA).
The Mongoose’s 32-by-32 digital audio matrix router receives its first 16 audio channels from up to eight RADs via the eight rear panel 8P8C (RJ-45) Remote Audio Device ports. The second 16 matrix input channels come from two eight-channel CobraNet receive (Rx) Bundles via standard CobraNet Primary and Secondary/backup ports. The 32 matrix router outputs transmit 16 channels to eight RADs and 16 more channels to two CobraNet transmit (Tx) Bundles.
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CobraNet Networked Digital Audio Technology Bulletin
CobraCom Reference Platform Bulletin
Digital audio networking is an exciting technology that has seen rapid growth in an ever wider range of audio applications in recent years. Combining the functional and cost benefits of the latest developments in both audio and networking technologies, digital audio networking makes possible the implementation of applications that were heretofore too expensive and too cumbersome to manage.
CobraNet® technology, from Cirrus Logic, has emerged as the de-facto standard in audio networking technology with over 500,000 channels of uncompressed, low latency, real time professional grade audio installed to date. As part of their ongoing commitment to this technology, Cirrus Logic has introduced a new range of integrated circuits that make use of CobraNet technology easier and more cost effective than ever.
With the new CobraNet Silicon Series of integrated circuits, Cirrus Logic has taken full advantage of its audio expertise to give OEMs a revolutionary solution for new generations of audio equipment such as signal processors, power amplifiers, intercom systems, ceiling speakers, loudspeakers, I/O equipment, paging systems and many other applications that benefit from the high quality networked audio and control capabilities of CobraNet.
CobraNet capability can be easily and cost effectively incorporated into a variety of products with the Cirrus Logic CS1810xx family of CobraNet processors and CS4961xx family of CobraNet + DSP processors in 2x2, 8x8, and 16x16 channel configurations. Cirrus Logic has greatly reduced overall implementation costs and increased ease of design — all without licensing fees or royalties.
CobraNet continues to grow rapidly as its flexibility, utility, performance, and robustness are understood and appreciated by more and more leading manufacturers and end users alike.
Until recently, designing and building audio distribution systems with any degree of flexibility and intelligence has been a difficult and expensive undertaking, requiring large expenditures on wiring, conduit, switching equipment and installation labor. In addition, audio systems such as this using traditional analog technology have the added disadvantage of often being difficult and prohibitively expensive to reconfigure once installed.
With CobraNet networked audio, any audio input can be dynamically routed under software control to any audio output on the network in any combination, providing unparalleled routing flexibility; all over standard Ethernet.
Full remote control over the network is a standard part of the protocol with re-routing of audio easily accomplished via software rather than with expensive re-cabling or use of dedicated analog switching facilities. The network and protocol itself, not expensive cabling or switching equipment, is the switch.
Use of standard Ethernet wiring further reduces costs. Most facilities with installed sound systems include a data network that carries computer files, cash register transactions, HVAC control, security, etc. The audio industry's top designers are now seeing the advantage and value of also carrying audio over this type of network. CobraNet technology allows for the co-existence of audio and data traffic over existing standard Ethernet infrastructure resulting in substantial savings in design and installation.
With previously unattainable routing, control and monitoring flexibility, reduced system set-up and installation costs and professional grade audio delivery, CobraNet has emerged as the technology of choice in digital audio networking.
Please contact your local Cirrus Logic distributor or sales office for more information on the complete family of CobraNet processors.
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