ORLANDO – Harman Professional’s HiQnet System Architect Version 3.0 system configuration software, the first version of System Architect to provide Audio Video Bridging (AVB) capabilities, debuted at InfoComm 2011. Version 3.0 offers AVB networked audio routing support, along with a host of additional functionality including support for the dbx SC 32 and SC 64 Digital Matrix Processors and the BSS Audio/NETGEAR GS724T 24-Port Ethernet AVB Switch, the world’s first true networkable AVB devices.
“Audio Video Bridging is clearly the future of audio/video signal distribution, and our System Architect version 3.0 provides systems integrators and installers with an important new tool for designing and configuring AVB-based networked A/V systems,” noted Adam Holladay, senior market manager, Harman Professional System Development and Integration Group (SDIG). “With System Architect version 3.0, the complexities of networked audio routing are greatly reduced.”
Harman HiQnet System Architect version 3.0 enables designers to efficiently and reliably configure a Harman AVB-based audio/video system using a vastly simplified graphical interface for audio routing. Signals are routed by dragging and dropping from a filterable list of all available source AVB signals onto the destination device icon in the main workspace – singly or multiple at a time. Releasing the mouse launches a pop-up routing dialog for the destination device and signals are assigned to available channel inputs. AVB enables time-synchronized, ultra-low-latency audio and video signals to be distributed over IEEE 802 Ethernet networks, offering the potential to greatly simplify A/V system wiring and installation while providing expanded signal-distribution and control capabilities.
System Architect 3.0 is compatible with all Harman AVB-ready products including the dbx SC 32 and SC 64 Digital Matrix Processors with the new AVB high-speed option card installed. The SC processors with the AVB high-speed option card are the world’s first truly-networkable AVB audio processors in that AVB signals may be routed over an AVB network. The System Architect 3.0 workspace also includes the BSS Audio/NETGEAR GS724T 24-Port Ethernet AVB Switch – the world’s first AVB switch for networking multichannel audio and video over standardized Ethernet. As with HiQnet devices, a representation of the switch may be loaded into the System Architect 3.0 Venue, and double-clicking will launch the NETGEAR management HTML pages in the default Windows browser so as to integrate control of the switches with the rest of the HiQnet system.
System Architect 3.0 was demoed at Harman Professional’s InfoComm booth, and also featured at the AVnu Alliance pavilion at that show.
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