Greetings, I am new to the list and linux audio as I have taken over engineering a radio station. We will be building a brand new studio on campus in 2008, and I have already started to meet with the architectural committee. The more I consider our mission and where broadcast audio has the potential to go in the future, the more I find I would like to implement an open architecture infrastructure for the facility. At this point, one of the largest questions I am facing is the transport of the audio around the plant, and potentially around campus. The UW has invested a tremendous amount of effort in building a multicast capable infrastructure to handle communications needs of the campus into the future, so we will certainly have pipeline available if we wanted to get data from point a to b. The question is what type of transport would be capable of interfacing with what type of in-house switching and routing? The in-house needs would be a system capable of replicating something along the lines of what Z-sys:http://www.z-sys.com/pp_routing.html equipment is capable of providing. My first choice would be to replicate this type of routing in software as well [JACK on a large scale]. The question then leads into what will be the transport method? Cobranet http://www.peakaudio.com/CobraNet/Background.html is certainly promising with actual market availability, but it is still proprietary. I ultimately envision a system where an artist (DJ) sits at a terminal and has the capability to patch their own inputs with ALSA and JACK, bring everything up on a control surface for tactile use, and route to air, stream, or file. I welcome any comments in any form which anybody wishes to contribute. I will also continue to form my train of thought here: http://mattrock.net/WSUM/. Thanks to you all for providing an environment which has been long overdue to the audio world. Matt -- Matt Rockwell- Technical Director University of Wisconsin- WSUM Student Radio http://www.wsum.org/ PGP ID:0x290719C7
