At Cabsat 2015 Calrec will showcase two new network interface cards for its popular 3U modular Hydra2 I/O box. As the broadcast industry edges further towards complex networked infrastructures, Calrec continues to anticipate demand by increasing its range of modular I/O solutions. MADI interface card for 3U modular Hydra2 I/O box will be presented at […]
At Cabsat 2015 Calrec will showcase two new network interface cards for its popular 3U modular Hydra2 I/O box. As the broadcast industry edges further towards complex networked infrastructures, Calrec continues to anticipate demand by increasing its range of modular I/O solutions.
MADI interface card for 3U modular Hydra2 I/O box will be presented at the Calrec booth. The card offers a MADI stream input and output, via copper BNC or SFP fibre. The output streams simultaneously over both copper BNC and fiber SFP.
The card also offers user switchable Sample Rate Converter (SRC) on the input and a user switchable SRC on output. At 48KHz it supports up to 64 channels on input and 64 channel operation on output. At 96KHz it will provide 32 channels.
Also on show is Calrecs Dante interface, which works in conjunction with Hydra2 across the entire range of Calrec Bluefin2 consoles.
The development gives Dante connectivity to every client on a Hydra2 network via a simple, single-width 3U interface card. This provides 64 audio input and 64 audio output channels, with connectivity via dual-redundant RJ45 ethernet connectors on the cards front panel.
Dante is a proprietary networking technology developed by Audinate and is currently deployed across the globe to connect many different kinds of pro-audio equipment.
