The Network Connection
For Your Audio Equipment

Preliminary

Many audio networks make a tough demand: Retire your present audio equipment, write-off the capital investment, and buy all new hardware.

360 Systems has a better idea. Keep your existing equipment, integrate it into the network, and take advantage of its service life. That’s what our AudioPort Network Interface is all about.

Here’s How it Works
Attach an AudioPort to 360 Systems’ Ethernet Audio™ network with a single wire. Plug its audio leads into your legacy audio equipment. That’s it. You’re now ready to record and play on the network with your existing gear.

DAT machines, codecs, CD libraries and even VTR audio do belong on next-generation audio networks. 360 Systems approach integrates your standard audio equipment into our network, so they work together. Now your staff can acquire audio in any format and pull it into the network. For example, a DAT news tape might be placed on the “NEWS\DAT” directory — making it available to everyone in the station.

AudioPort™ Makes All Your Equipment Networkable
The AudioPort converts analog audio signals to Ethernet data, and writes it as standard WAV files on the network file server. (We also make a model that works with AES/EBU audio signals.)

AudioPorts can also receive data from the network, and produce standard audio outputs. And if your equipment accepts serial or GPI commands, its transport functions may be controlled as well. With 360 Systems’ AudioPort you keep your present equipment, and we provide an affordable link to the Ethernet Audio network. The AudioPort interface is just part of 360 System’s next-generation approach to networking.

Preliminary information. Specifications subject to change without notice.