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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Josh Millward" data-source="post: 132639" data-attributes="member: 970">Re: Marc Lopez of Yamaha Commercial Audio Q&ASo, I find this pretty interesting. What is the physical interface mechanism for the "TwinLANe" setup? The channel capacity of Dante (or CobraNet for that matter) scales with the available bandwidth of the network links. So I would expect (though I have not personally tested it) that if you were to set up a pair of ports each on a pair of Gigabit network switches using LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol) you can increase the available bandwidth on that link from the 1Gb you get with a single port to 2Gb since you are using two ports. I would expect that doing something like this should theoretically provide the ability to pass up to 512 channels of 96kHz over the dual link Ethernet interface using standard hardware all the way around. Now, this all sounds like a real pain to set up if the end user had to be the one configuring Ethernet switches and the like, but if this capacity is built into the actual hardware to begin with I can see a lot of low cost, high speed data happening. For that matter, you could just use 10Gb Ethernet links and theoretically be able to move 2,560 of those beautiful, high resolution audio channels with one interface with either copper Category 6A (Class Ea, STP or UTP out to 100 meters) or Category 7 (Class F, STP out to 100 meters) or one of the many fiber options. It just seems to me that "TwinLANe" is an unnecessary complication when there are already better solutions available in standard Ethernet that will directly support Dante. This would allow Yamaha to keep building Dante directly into their consoles and it would not need to be an option. You know, standardize on one standard... this should also allow the end user to be able to just directly connect RIO boxes at 1GbE and processing engines at 10GbE to the same standard network switch.</blockquote>

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