Digital audio networking is here to stay. Itis the state of the art, and it is the future. But with whichstandard? Today there are multiple competing systems,and work on a compatibility standard is underway. Knowinga digital audio networking standard is the future that will be,what should equipment vendors and users do in themeantime to get ‘over the hump’ of these next few years?This paper will examine this problem by breaking downwhere some of the real design issues are. Given thedifference between the systems, what is the most that couldneed to be changed? How can an equipment manufacturertoday designing to use one particular digital audio networkinterface potentially leave the door open to the futurestandard even though that is not yet settled? Broadcategories of equipment design issues will be considered,like: network capability, synchronization, stability anddesign of local clocking hardware, stream formats, memoryfor buffering, mips for protocol parsing, real timerequirements on hardware and software.
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