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EtherSound

Digigram · 2002

Evidence status · documented

Identity and core specifications are documented; some historical fields remain unavailable.

EtherSound, from Digigram, carried low-latency multichannel audio over Ethernet hardware. Its first products, the ES8in and ES8out bridges of 2002, put eight analogue channels on or off the network over Cat5 and standard switches.

Introduced
2002
Category
Audio-over-Ethernet protocol
Intended use
Low-latency daisy-chain audio for live and installed systems
Production
Digigram, France

Equipment photographs · 1

Fostex NetCIRA EtherSound interfaces

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Fostex NetCIRA EtherSound interfaces·CLI·GFDL

Why it mattered

  1. 01

    Its low, fixed latency suited snake replacement where [[cobranet|CobraNet]] was slower.

  2. 02

    Off-the-shelf bridges normalised swapping analogue snakes for Ethernet.

Engineering record

First products
ES8in/ES8out bridges, eight channels each[1]

Original pricing

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2026 equivalent

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Use in the field

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Manuals & original documents

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Sources

  1. 1Digigram unveils off-the-shelf EtherSound productsLSi Online · archive · 2002-09-15

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