Digigram eases IP migration in the studio with new AUDIOWAY BRIDGE, an all-in-one
gateway between Legacy and IP Audio

Digigram recently announced the release of AUDIOWAY BRIDGE, the first in the
company’s new AUDIOWAY range of IP studio solutions. Serving as a gateway
between legacy and IP audio equipment in the studio, or in multiple studios connected
by a managed network, AUDIOWAY BRIDGE allows users to input MADI, AES67,
RAVENNA, Dante/AES67, Livewire+, or AES/EBU and route audio to output in any one
of these formats. By facilitating the use of familiar legacy audio equipment alongside
newer IP-based systems in both on-air broadcasting and production, AUDIOWAY
BRIDGE reduces the cost and complexity of migrating to IP.

“AUDIOWAY BRIDGE offers the smart studio interfaces that allow for a seamless IP
migration. This first product in the AUDIOWAY range demonstrates our depth of
experience in designing mission-critical equipment for audio-over-IP applications,”
said Pascal Malgouyard, head of marketing at Digigram.

As a complete single-box system, Digigram’s AUDIOWAY BRIDGE can replace more
costly and complicated gateways that can be too specialised to facilitate broadcasters’
migration schemes. Occupying just one rack unit, the all-in-one gateway not only
bridges audio-over-IP (AoIP) streams and legacy signals but also ensures clock
synchronisation between the two systems.

The AUDIOWAY BRIDGE features dual AES67 gigabit 2 x 64 full-duplex I/O channels
and is equipped with both 64/64 MADI I/O and 8/8 AES/EBU legacy interfaces, as well
as a high-precision PTP master clock addressing all synchronisation between IP and
legacy audio. PTP synchronisation also combines with ultra-large receiver buffering
(20 milliseconds) to support a flexible IP highway on a managed wide area network.

The operation of the AUDIOWAY BRIDGE is simple thanks to its embedded routing
matrix and support for the open-source EMBER+ protocol, which eases connections to
studio management systems. In addition to SIP for Unicast streams, the Digigram
gateway is capable of discovering both RAVENNA (mDNS) and SAP (Dante/AES67)
AoIP streams, the former with ultra-low latency down to one sample per packet.

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