User Manual

Connecting Yamaha Dante devices with AES67
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Feature Summary
Dante Controller v3.6.2.4 and later supports the AES67-enabled Dante devices, but as of
January 2017, the following requirements and limitations are applied to the use of AES67
with Dante.
 SAP (Session Announcement Protocol) must be supported.
This is one of four device discovery methods referenced in the AES67 standard.
Check if the transmitting non-Dante AES67 device supports SAP. Otherwise Dante
Controller cannot discover the audio flows coming from the device. Dante devices
support SAP if their AES67 mode is enabled. Even if the non-Dante AES67 device
does not directly support SAP, the vendor may have a software conversion tool
available, providing wider compatibility, such as ALC NetworX RAV2SAP.
 Multicast flow only (unicast is not supported yet).
 Up to 8 channels per flow.
 Multicast IP addresses must be in the range of 239.69.0.0 - 239.69.255.255/16.
In addition, the same network address range must be specified for other AES67
devices transmitting to Dante devices.
 48 kHz sampling rate only.
The Dante audio flows from/to the device will also be limited to 48 kHz if the device is
engaged in AES67 mode.
 24 bit (L24) only for transmission and reception.
 2 milliseconds fixed latency for reception.
 Primary network only (redundant network is not defined within the AES67 standard).
 100 Mbps or slower connections are not supported.
In addition, please be aware of the following notes due to known issues.
 Initialize the Dante module before the AES67 mode is enabled.