Dante Audio Networking

Dante is an audio-over-IP technology used to route many channels of digital audio across a standard Ethernet network. In conference centers, schools, houses of worship, hotels, and amenity spaces, it can replace large bundles of point-to-point analog audio cable with network links between compatible processors, amplifiers, consoles, microphones, and endpoints. Routing is managed in software rather than by physically repatching every signal. A dependable Dante deployment requires more than connecting devices to any available switch. The AV and network teams should coordinate switch capacity, quality of service, multicast behavior, clocking, redundancy, VLAN strategy, endpoint power, and documentation. Cabling should meet the device and network design, be certified, and be labeled consistently. Dante is a transport platform rather than a complete AV design; loudspeaker coverage, gain structure, control, acoustics, and user operation still require normal audiovisual engineering.