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Trans-Europe Express Audio: testing 1000 mile low-latency uncompressed audio between Edinburgh and Berlin using GPS-derived word clock, first with jacktrip then with Dante.

Authors: Ferguson, Paul; Chafe, Chris; Gapp, Simon

AES Convention 148 · Paper 605 · May 2020

Abstract

For nearly two decades, networked audio research using jacktrip has shown that multi-channel uncompressed audio was possible over a National Research and Education Network (NREN) and was now becoming viable over some public network connections. There was however, a ‘Dirty Secret’, in the absence of any synchronisation between transmitting and receiving word clocks, periodic audio loss due to data over-run or over-run was a certainty. The authors describe a low-cost GPS-derived clocking solution for jacktrip and then apply it to off-the-shelf Dante equipment and Dante Domain Manager for the world’s first long-distance Dante audio over standard academic networks.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 148
AES Convention
148
Paper number
605
Publication date
May 6, 2020
Session subject
Applications
Affiliation
Edinburgh Napier University; Stanford University; Technische Universität Berlin (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Engineering Brief