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AUDIOWAY BRIDGE B1, B2, B3
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7.3 AWc-DANTE INTERFACE
AWC-DANTE front panel
AWc-DANTE card provides 4 Giga-Ethernet ports that allow various architecture possibilities.
Two modes are available, with their own wiring restrictions. Please read carefully the following lines to avoid
any mistakes and network errors when building a Dante network.
7.3.1
Switch Mode
When powered up for the first time, AWc-DANTE card starts in Switch mode.
In Switch mode, all 4 ports are switched together and behave the same way. There is no "Primary" or
"Secondary" capability. You can see your AWc-DANTE card as a regular 4 ports Giga-Ethernet switch.
This mode allows you to build daisy-chained and/or star architecture easily. In some small architecture, it can
reduce or even suppress the need of external Gigabit Ethernet switch.
This mode is AES67 compliant.
7.3.1.1 Daisy-Chain architecture
This wiring is the simplest, for the lowest cost. All devices are daisy-chained using a single Ethernet cable.
Please note that in this case, If a single cable is broken, or if a device fails, the whole network behind this
failure will be unavailable.
Please also be aware that each new devices chained will add latency to the network (a switch "hop").
7.3.1.2 Star architecture
Thanks to the 4 ports of AWc-DANTE card, previous example can be improved using a star architecture
without the need of an external switch. as described below.
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