Solid State Logic has delivered its configuration to-date to a large, but unnamed, international broadcast facility.

At the core of the system are two sets of redundant T80 Tempest Engines with a total capacity of 1,600 fully-processed audio paths, assignable to any control surface. The control network includes two 82-fader surfaces, each with three operator positions and four large multi-gesture touch screens. There is also a PC-based T-Solsa (SSL Online/Offline Set-up and control Application) control position with an additional 16-fader hardware control panel, assignable to either control surface.

The full system has more 5,400 input channels and 4,500 output channels of SSL Network IO, all connected to a redundant Dante Network operating at both 96kHz and 48kHz.

While large, this system is still scalable by adding additional System T control devices, Tempest processing engines, and Dante, AES67, SMPTE 2110-based I/O. Dante routing is distributed, so no dedicated routing hardware is required - simply a suitable IP infrastructure built with COTS (Common off-the-Shelf) switching hardware. A single 24-port Ethernet switch, for example, is the equivalent of a 12,000 x 12,000 cross-point router.

Any Dante I/O can be added to a System T network, which means that System T can be integrated with more than 1,000 I/O devices from more than 350 manufacturers, including multi-format devices such as the SSL Network I/O: Madi Bridge that can bring existing I/O to the new IP-based infrastructure.

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