A collaboration between Riedel Communications and Studer is to bring Studer users a highly scalable audio routing system offering I/O capacities in excess of 10,000 x 10,000 connection and providing direct integration with the Riedel MediorNet system over Studer’s A-Link digital interface – a point-to-point topology similar to Madi, but faster and with a potential capacity of 1,500 channels per connection.

The first company to enter into a distribution agreement with Riedel, Studer will offer systems comprising both consoles and routers. The companies have jointly developed A-Link interface cards for MediorNet, and Studer Vista and OnAir DSP engines. A single 2U-high MediorNet box fitted with six A-link cards can deliver a 4608 x 4608 matrix, connected to A-Link cards in Studer’s SCore Live DSP systems using optical cables to provide a redundant routing system.

MediorNet also allows further expansion and integration, since the it may be configured to support video and audio routing, with de-embedded audio from the SDI streams being sent to the Studer consoles, and the return signals embedded back onto the video. For larger-scale applications, MediorNet may be configured with several networked frames in a unique distributed routing network, complete with redundant-ring topology.

‘We’ve been working with Riedel for two years on this,’ says Studer’s VP and General Manager, Andy Trott. ‘The power of the combined systems is unrivalled in the audio market and we see great opportunities for our customers from these developments. To have such a massive I/O capacity in such a small amount of hardware would have been unimaginable only five years ago.’

The partnership also means Riedel expands the capabilities of its network backbone since existing customers can now integrate Studer consoles simply and cost-effectively.