AES67 is an open, vendor-neutral standard for sending uncompressed digital audio over a standard IP network. Where Dante, Ravenna and a handful of other audio-over-IP systems are each their own ecosystem with their own protocol underneath, AES67 was specifically designed as a common interoperability layer — most professional audio-over-IP systems, including Dante, can bridge to AES67.
In practice, AES67 matters most at the boundary between systems: a broadcast facility running Dante for audio and NDI for video needs something that lets the two talk to each other, and AES67 is generally that something. It's also increasingly the audio layer underneath SMPTE 2110 broadcast infrastructure.
If your facility is single-vendor and already standardised — pure Dante throughout, for instance — you may never need to think about AES67 directly. It becomes relevant the moment audio needs to move between systems that don't natively speak the same protocol, or alongside an NDI video workflow that wants its audio handled the same network-native way as the video.
The Pro Convert AES67 bridges AES67 audio networks with Icecast streams, analogue I/O and NDI audio. The Pro Convert Audio DX goes a step further, adding Dante and SRT audio to the mix — the better fit specifically where Dante-based infrastructure needs to interoperate with an NDI or SRT video network rather than a pure AES67 environment.
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