But this is nothing new -- Peak Audio's CobraNet has been used for several years for exactly this purpose -- moving multichannel pro or semi-pro audio from place to place in a venue.
http://www.peakaudio.com/CobraNet/
It really shines in venues like sports arenas or outdoor concerts with significant distances involved. It's much more cost-effective than long multichannel snakes.
Rane
http://www.rane.com/nm84.html
and QSC
http://www.qscaudio.com/products/amps/rave/rave.ht m
Peavey
http://mediamatrix.peavey.com/
(and others) even build CobraNet input modules into their power amplifiers.
Now I'm just waiting for them to extend it to the emerging 10 Gigabit networking...
http://www.10gea.org/
WECo.
But this is nothing new -- Peak Audio's CobraNet has been used for several years for exactly this purpose -- moving multichannel pro or semi-pro audio from place to place in a venue. http://www.peakaudio.com/CobraNet/ It really shines in venues like sports arenas or outdoor concerts with significant distances involved. It's much more cost-effective than long multichannel snakes. Rane http://www.rane.com/nm84.html and QSC http://www.qscaudio.com/products/amps/rave/rave.ht m
Peavey
http://mediamatrix.peavey.com/
(and others) even build CobraNet input modules into their power amplifiers.
Now I'm just waiting for them to extend it to the emerging 10 Gigabit networking...
http://www.10gea.org/
WECo.