2. CONTENTSBiamp Audio: What Makes it Great 5
Bread and Butter DSP 9
Starship Audio 14
Audio Tech Deep Dive 21
Processing Technologies 22
Acoustic Echo Cancellation 26
Partitions 29
Redundancy Redundancy 32
Protocol Bridging 34
Tesira and Vocia Coming Together 37
Configuration Engine 41
3. 5
What we do (make your audio
sound great) isn’t seen, it’s heard—
around the world and around the
clock. Great audio knows no limits
on time or geography, because
it’s everywhere, all the time. When
audio is done right, it’s part of the
environment. The ambiance. The
total experience.
1 biamp audio: What makes it great
How We Do Audio
Photo courtesy of North Carolina State
University, James B. Hunt Jr. Library
4. 6
It used to be that a technical
professional had to be in
the room to operate the
AV equipment for every
conference call. We’ve made
it our mission to change that
by creating smart equipment
that makes system installation,
operation, and management
incredibly easy. Oh, and it has
to sound great. If it doesn’t
sound great, we’ve failed you.
This is how we do audio at the
most basic level.
It’s a thankless job, though,
being in the audio business.
But we do it because we love
it. If you scratch the surface of
our engineering team, down
where the passion is, you’ll
understand that we live and
breathe audio. We understand
why it’s important to the world,
to every environment, and to
every human on the planet. We
hear you, and we want to help
your clients be heard, too.
We l i v e &
b r e a t h e a u d i o
We break audio down into two
different categories: Everyday
and Enterprise. Our products
fit into those categories and
we’ll be talking about them
in terms of application and
process instead of just function
and features. We’re taking
things up a notch and digging
a little deeper.
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2 Bread and Butter DSP
Everyday audio is easy in and easy
out. It’s audio that meets the simple,
everyday needs of end users by
providing professional audio at an
affordable price.
Every audio installation needs a certain
basic DSP toolbox regardless of the
system size or purpose. It used to be
that if an installation required a little
more or less than what was offered
in the toolbox, the end user either
compromised on what they wanted,
or overpaid to get the system they
needed. No more!
How We Do Audio
Photo courtesy of North Carolina State
University, James B. Hunt Jr. Library
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Say your client needs a networked conferencing solution for two
conference rooms that connect to Lync®. They also want the conference
rooms to connect with each other.
*Just to clarify, that would be turning an Everyday audio system into an Enterprise audio system. Isn’t scalability great?
†Totally false. Except the application-specific and fixed I/O parts. Those are true.
We believe in creating audio solutions that give end users everything they need, and nothing they
don’t, without having to pay a premium.
Enter custom-built DSP systems to fit the audio environment and customer need. We’ve also
built our systems to be easily expandable with other Biamp equipment, and compatible with
third-party equipment and controls. We work hard to make products you can install with pride.
Products that are relevant across environments, offering smart small- to medium-sized solutions.
That’s the exact solution to meet the exact daily-use needs of the client. If they later decide to install
a facility-wide audio system using AVB, the necessary number of Tesira and TesiraFORTÉ AVB CI
servers can be purchased as needed to expand the existing system. There wouldn't be any do-overs,
just add-tos.*
The basic DSP toolbox is extremely important. Customizing it to fit is where the magic happens.
Unless we’re talking about TesiraFORTÉ, of course, which are fixed I/O devices with application-
specific powers such as flying, communicating telepathically with animals, and time travel.†
You’ll need one TesiraFORTÉ AVB CI server for each room. That’s it. The
TesiraFORTÉ AVB CI can directly connect with Lync (or other soft codec
applications) via its USB port, in addition to providing general high quality
Let’s look at an Everyday application:
THE SITUATION
THE SOLUTION
audio for the room. Using AVB as its networking protocol, the TesiraFORTÉ AVB CI servers
can seamlessly communicate with each other.
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Nexia®
We’ve referred to Nexia as our basic DSP, but that doesn’t mean it’s not robust and able to take
on complex applications. Its processing capability makes for a very powerful system that can do
everything for a single room: video- and teleconferencing, speaker processing, and multimedia
presentation. A “basic” DSP, as far as Biamp is concerned, still comes packed with a full set of
sophisticated audio design tools.
Audia®
As an Everyday audio solution, Audia gets you customizable analog hardware that we configure for
you in the factory, and that you can easily change later in the field. That’s one of the best things about
it. You can choose exactly how many channels in or out, and add telephony, too. Do you need POTS or
VoIP? You can use both! The ability to adapt and customize audio distribution as needed is important
to your clients, which means it’s important to you, which is why it’s important to us.
TesiraFORTE
TesiraFORTÉ merges all the classic functionality of Nexia to the power of the Tesira platform by
using AVB. This great set of tools comes in four different models with optional AVB networking, and
optimized for specific business applications with fixed I/O configurations. TesiraFORTÉ speaks to the
heart of our Everyday audio promise: giving end users everything they need, and nothing they don’t.
James Hunt Library Installs First-of-Its-Kind Audio System with Dynamic Audia/Nexia Duo
Raleigh, NC
USA
Building an audio system for a 24/7, high tech facility that accommodated a variety of audio
spaces–from silence to surround sound and single activity experiences that took place throughout
the daily lifecycle of the building.
[13] AudiaFLEX CM [7] AudiaFLEX NC [1] NPS-1 paging station [2] Nexia CS [2] Nexia PM
[1] Nexia VC
challenge
system solution
takeaways
Hunt Library needed an audio system that was just as innovative and robust as the building itself.
By choosing Biamp’s Audia and Nexia DSP platforms as the best solution to solve the complex
challenges of the Library, the NCSU faculty and students have the library they’ve always wanted.
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3Starship Audio
So, what qualifies as an Enterprise
audio system? To us, Enterprise means
it’s not just a “big” system (i.e. lots
of inputs and outputs), it means the
system is comprised of many different
applications like conferencing, BGM,
paging, general audio, lecture capture,
mix-minus, and court recording.
Enterprise means all of those
applications (or some combination)
on one platform with the capability
to integrate with other products and
systems to create a single, cohesive,
networked system. That’s Enterprise (or
Starship, as we like to call it) audio.
An Enterprise network can consist of more than just a robust audio
system. It can include any system that runs on a network: printers,
security system, manufacturing equipment, even the sprinkler system.
All these mini systems that would have been handled separately, are
now running on one network, and coming back to one centralized point
(although there may be many devices at that point). Our equipment can
be a part of that one system that rules them all.
All the systems on an Enterprise network don’t have to run on the same
protocol in order to communicate and integrate with one another. With
that said, the design of a DSP is fundamentally tied to the protocol it
runs on. If the DSP only runs on a third-party proprietary protocol, then
it will only be able to communicate with equipment that’s compatible
with that protocol. Should that protocol be open standard or third-party
proprietary? AVB or CobraNet®
? Should we use a Dante®
card? What
combination of features will give integrators the best price-performance
ratio? These are the questions that keep us up at night. So, we decided
to program it all to be possible, and leave it up to the customer to decide
what they want and need.
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Bored with Using the Same Set of Processing Items When
Programming Tesira Inputs?
If you select a group of processing objects and add them to your Processing
Library as a set, you will get a new item representing that group of objects.
Drag it into your design and voila!, you just found a new way to save yourself
some time. This method can be used as an alternative to custom blocks.
TNT
How We Do Audio
TIPS &
TRICKS
9. We’d recommend a Vocia overhead paging and life safety system that
directly connects to the Nurse Call system by way of the Vocia Nurse Call
Integration package. With the release of Vocia 1.6, Vocia can now integrate
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THE SITUATION
THE SOLUTION
You have a healthcare client who’s looking to completely revamp the audio
distribution and overhead paging and life safety system throughout their
multi-campus facility, without interfering with the current Nurse Call system.
Here’s an Enterprise application:
much more easily with Tesira SERVER or SERVER-IO to receive direct BGM and general audio signals
over CobraNet, instead of tying up limited CobraNet channels by going through the Vocia world.*
*Vocia 1.6 also integrates with Audia for this same purpose!
TesiraFORTE
TesiraFORTÉ enhances the Tesira platform by offering four different models with optional AVB
networking. Each model has a fixed I/O configuration that has been optimized for specific business
applications. Equipped with a robust toolbox designed with Enterprise systems in mind, TesiraFORTÉ
offers multiple combinations of inputs and outputs, and 8 channels of USB audio. TesiraFORTÉ can
serve as the heart of your audio network or help you re-imagine your existing Tesira system. The
choice is yours.
Vocia®
A little different from the audio focus of our other Biamp products, Vocia focuses very specifically on
professional-grade critical paging, life safety and voice evacuation. These functions are so important
that they need a very focused system that specifically addresses them. With Vocia, the intelligence
of the system is in the endpoints—the desk or wall paging station devices, in this case. This
decentralized architecture distributes processing and page routing across the network, and eliminates
the potential for a single point of system failure.
Tesira®
Tesira is really our flagship DSP, and we couldn’t be more proud of it. The Tesira platform takes our
legacy for customizable, configurable, medium-scale platforms and extends it to the large, extra
large, and super-scale platforms. By using AVB, its networking capabilities are easily among the most
flexible, scalable, and affordable on the market. There’s just so much you can do with Tesira:
• Partition an audio system into zones
• Take advantage of the configuration engine (the intelligence marrying your
design to a physical system)
• Customize the amount of DSP power in a single Tesira SERVER chassis
Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre Installs Urgently Needed DSP System Amidst Packed Event Schedule
Hong Kong,
CHINA
After a sudden DSP failure, HKCEC urgently needed a new DSP system that would
have to be installed around the convention center’s busy event schedule.
[1] Tesira SERVER-IO
challenge
system solution
takeaways
The Tesira networked media system solution has united old and new AV networks
with full system redundancy, future-proofed flexibility and scalability, and a system
CASE STUDY
2014
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4 Audio Tech Deep Dive
We’ll just come right out and say it:
we’re geeks!
We get extraordinarily excited when
debating the benefits of floating-
point and fixed-point analog to digital
conversion. Our pulses race when
we think about how to compile a
software program that runs two and a
half seconds faster. We tear up a little
when we hear a customer say, “Huh,
that’s clever,” when working with our
products. So, if you’ll allow us, we’d like
to tell you about some of the things
we’ve come up with, and why we think
they’re super cool.
How We Do Technology
Photo courtesy of North Carolina State
University, James B. Hunt Jr. Library
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5Processing Technologies
The core technology in the processing
of digital media has grown and evolved
over the years. We are proud to have
been a part of this. We embrace a
blend of well-known best practices and
innovative, cutting edge techniques to
bring a rich and powerful set of tools to
all of our customers.
How We Do Technology
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State processing
A design file contains processing blocks. Many of these blocks have parameters that are set during
commissioning and then those parameters sit in that state for a long time. Or maybe they are tied to
end user control for manual changes. These are things like levels, mutes, and router selections.
Dynamic Processing
We have many processing blocks that have dynamic individual parameters. These parameters are set
by the system designer, and will stay in that state, or change on their own if certain specific criteria
are met. Good examples of dynamic processing are found in automixers, compressors, and limiters.
Adaptive Processing
So, what is the next evolution in smart processing technology?
Well, how about processing that “listens” to a room and has
an understanding of the room’s characteristics at all times?
There would also have to be processing blocks that could use
that model of the room to maintain and dial in the precise
performance of the processing parameters in response. And,
just for kicks, it could do all that constantly, and to many
different parameters simultaneously.
An example of adaptive processing is Automatic Gain Control
(AGC). A microphone level is set. If the person speaking into
that microphone is below a certain threshold of input level,
gain will be added automatically to bring the audio up to the
specified level. If the person speaking is louder than a certain
threshold, the microphone signal is turned down accordingly.
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VoIP Product Compatibility as of January 2014*
Adhering to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) standard,
here’s a VoIP product compatibility cheat sheet:
VoIP-2 (Audia) SVC-2 (Tesira) MS-1 (Vocia)
Avaya SIP Enablement
Services 5.2.1
VoIP-2 / Avaya SES SVC-2 / Avaya SES (Not Tested)
Avaya Session Manager
6.2
VoIP-2 / Avaya SM SVC-2 / Avaya SM MS-1 / Avaya SM
Avaya IP Office 8.1 VoIP-2 / Avaya IP
Office
SVC-2 / Avaya IP Office MS-1 / Avaya IP Office
Avaya CS1000 7.5 (Not Tested) SVC-2 / Avaya CS1000 (Not Tested)
Cisco CallManager 9.0 VoIP-2 / Cisco
CallManager
SVC-2 / Cisco CallManager MS-1 / Cisco CallManager
ShoreTel Director 13.1 VoIP-2 / ShoreTel
Director
SVC-2 / ShoreTel Director MS-1 / ShoreTel Director
Mitel ICP 3300 6.0 VoIP / Mitel ICP 3300 SVC-2 / Mitel ICP 3300 MS-1 / Mitel ICP 3300
Light Grey: Certification obtained from manufacturer for product combination
Dark Grey: Passed in-house testing at Biamp, unless otherwise noted
*Check Cornerstone regularly for updated VoIP compatibility information.
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6Acoustic Echo Cancellation
We never stop working on the
technology behind our processing, and
refining our AEC is of particular interest
to us. Of all the technologies available
that enhance audio and make it more
intelligible, AEC is the fundamental
component.
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ACOUSTIC
ECHO
PATHS
FILTERED
SIGNAL
ORIGINAL
SIGNAL
AEC
REFERENCE
ERROR
SIGNAL
[FAR END] SIGNAL
[NEAR END] SIGNAL
WITHOUT ECHO
+
ADAPTIVE
FILTER
NON LINEAR
PROCESSING
NOISE
REDUCTION
These days, the relative ease
with which we engage with
AEC can lead the world
to believe that it’s easy. A
given. Even trivial. We use
the speakerphone on our
mobile phones, or have web
conferences over Lync®,
GoToMeeting®, and Google
Hangouts®. But the truth is,
the process of acoustic echo
cancellation is quite complex,
and the difference between
ordinary AEC, good AEC, and
great AEC is remarkable.
The less you notice the
acoustic echo, the better
the AEC is working. If you
notice the echo, then you
have a problem. When you’re
conferencing over a system
with great AEC it leaves you
feeling that the conference
was effortless from a
communication point of view.
You don’t realize how hard the
AEC was working for you. If it
does its job really well, you’ll
never know it was there. That’s
great AEC. That’s Biamp AEC.
How We Do Technology
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7 PARTITIONS
Over the years, you’ve shared stories
with us about the inconvenience of
having to bring an entire Enterprise
system online at the same time,
instead of being able to bring different
sections online as they’re completed.
That leads to system down time, which
your customers may only allow after
business hours, which means late
nights and long hours for you.
How We Do Technology
Photo courtesy of North Carolina State
University, James B. Hunt Jr. Library
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We are very happy to have put an end to all
that. With the partitions in Tesira, we created a
tool that makes it easier to build in phases, and
perform upgrades and maintenance.
The software partitions in Tesira are software-
only boundaries that can be used to separate
parts of a system file. Elements can be grouped
by function, specific location, or even a mix of
groupings. Regardless of how the partitions
are divided, they can go on- and offline
independently of each other.
CONVENTION CENTER
TRADE SHOW HALL
LOBBY
CONFERENCE ROOM A
CONFERENCE ROOM B
Even if the whole system is in one configuration
file, a single partition can be brought offline and
changed. It can then be compiled again without
the other partitions being affected. And when
the new file uploads into the system, the other
partitions never even have to stop running.
Developing partitions made us happier than
getting control of Australia in a game of Risk®
.
(You can’t win Risk without Australia. You just can’t.)
How to Set Proper Input Gain
To establish proper gain structure, your first concern should be input gain. Each
system input provides adjustable Gain In or Trim Level, with an associated Peak
indicator.
[1] For best performance, increase the gain on a given input until the Peak
indicator just begins to flash on normal signal content. The Peak indicator first
comes on with 6dB of headroom remaining (before clipping occurs).
[2] To provide additional headroom (that is, allowing for occasional louder
input signals), we recommend that the gain then be reduced by 12dB (two 6dB
decrements).
*You’ll find more helpful information like this on Cornerstone at support.biamp.com
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8REDUNDANCY REDUNDANCY
When Tesira was released, we created
two different server types. One that
could handle a lot of analog input and
output (SERVER-IO) and one that was
meant for processing centralization
with lots of expanders (SERVER). But
we know that centralizing processing
means that people might be worried
about having too many virtual eggs in
one virtual basket. So, we recognized
the need for basket insurance. While we
know that one of our SERVER’s failing is
extremely unlikely,* we also know that
peace of mind is worth a lot.
*No really. We even wrote a blog post about it: “Leading Causes of Biamp Equipment Failure.” Want to know the leading (non-user)
cause? Lightning strikes and other power surges. 33
Now you can deploy a
redundant pair, or even
multiple redundant pairs
of servers, and give your
customers that added level of
comfort. In order to make the
system work the way you need
it to, we made the redundant
pair a true pair. Meaning the
secondary SERVER knows it
needs to update itself with
every change the primary
SERVER makes, and it does.
This way, we ensure that if a
failover occurred, the sound
system would behave and
sound appropriately according
to the last update to the
primary SERVER.
Furthermore, if the secondary
has to take over the system,
when the primary comes
back it knows that it isn’t in
charge of the system anymore,
and may not be up-to-date
anymore. So, it reads all the
changes since it was last
running, and then acts as the
secondary. Brilliant!
VoIP Basics
Here’s a simple overview diagram summarizing steps involved in a VoIP call:
[1] The voice signal is first encoded into a known compressed audio format,
packetized in a real-time-protocol and then transmitted over the network.
[2] A VoIP protocol takes care of managing the communication session.
[3] On the receiving side, data is extracted from packets and the signal is
decoded back to analog audio. Success of this process is obviously sensitive to
delay and packet loss.
ENCODING &
PACKETIZING
TRANSMISSION
OVER NETWORK
LAN/WAN
DECOMPRESSION
& DECODING
VOICE
SIGNAL
VOICE
SIGNAL01001... 01001...
[1] [2] [3]
How We Do Technology
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9Protocol Bridging
We rolled out a new networking card for
the Tesira SERVER and SERVER-IO. It’s
the DAN-1 Dante interface card. With
this new card, a Tesira system can have
input and output interfacing with Dante-
based audio networks and equipment
outside of the Tesira network.
Translation: Systems that use a Dante
networking protocol can now benefit
from all the power of Tesira processing.
You can put a DAN-1 in a SERVER or a SERVER-IO. A SERVER always has an AVB card in it, which
means you can now have one chassis interface between an AVB network and a Dante network. Cool?
You bet. But here comes cooler:
You can also put a DAN-1 card in a SERVER-IO along with an AVB-1 card, and (drumroll, please) you
can even put an SCM-1 CobraNet card in that same SERVER-IO! Go ahead and read that again–we’ll
wait. With Tesira, you can have a single chassis that interfaces with AVB, CobraNet, and Dante. This
digital networking protocol bridge just added two lanes in each direction. Road trip, anyone?
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GREEN connectors = INPUTSORANGE connectors = AEC INPUTSBLUE connectors = ANC INPUTSBLACK connectors = OUTPUTS
US: 6RMBR00BSTC-2, Complies with FCC Part 68
IC: 3184A-STC24HW3
100 - 240V~
50/60Hz 5.5 - 2.3A
Serial 1
Serial 2
AVB-1
Primary
Secondary
AVB
connections
only
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Logic I/O
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Serial 1
Serial 2 GREEN connectors = INPUTSORANGE connectors = AEC INPUTSBLUE connectors = ANC INPUTSBLACK connectors = OUTPUTS
assembled in the USA
www.biamp.com
US: 6RMBR00B - STC-2, Complies with FCC Part 68
IC: 3184A - STC-2
S/N
Mic / Line Inputs
1234
EIC-4
Mic / Line Inputs
1234
Outputs
EIOC-4
1234
Outputs
EOC-4
123
Ethernet
BIAMP SYSTEMS
assembled in the USA
www.biamp.com
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52SJ
100 - 240V~
50/60Hz 40W
N24138
EX-MOD
OTHER COBRANET
DEVICES
OTHER DANTE
SERVICES
COBRANET SWITCH
TESIRA SERVER
EX-MOD EX-OUT
TESIRA SERVER I-O
DANTE SWITCH
AVB SWITCH
POE+
How We Do Technology
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10 Tesira and Vocia Coming Together
A preoccupation for us since Tesira
was released has been how to make it
integrate better with Vocia. Some of
our customers have crafted ways of
doing it in their installs, but we wanted
to create something more direct
for you. With the Vocia 1.6 firmware
update, Vocia amplifiers will now
be able to receive unicast CobraNet
bundles from Tesira or Audia servers.
That means your customers’ BGM
audio channels can be sent from Tesira
or Audia directly into existing Vocia
amplifiers via CobraNet channels,
and out through the existing speaker
system.
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Before Vocia 1.6, the BGM signals took over entire CobraNet bundles in the Vocia world, which left
fewer available channels for emergency paging–the priority function of the system. The beauty of
this release is that because the BGM now flows through the Tesira or Audia servers, the intelligence
inherent in the 1.6 release enables Vocia to override the incoming BGM signals to prioritize the paging
messages without having to operate on fewer channels.
The Vocia VI-8 increases the interoperability with Tesira and Audia by allowing paging audio inputs
(either analog audio or CobraNet from Tesira or Audia) to be routed to any assigned page code
within a Vocia world. You would use this to interface with existing non-Vocia paging stations (either
permanently or during cutover), with fireman’s mics or integrated voice evacuation modules, and
interfacing with standard sound reinforcement systems. Here’s an example: If you want to send
a facility-wide broadcast from an auditorium using Audia or Tesira, you can take over the paging
system and send your page throughout the entire Vocia “world.” It will override everything except
priority emergency pages.
VOCIA WORLD
VOCIA MS-1
VOCIA VI-8
VOCIA LSI-16
VOCIA TTS-1nc
VOCIA AMPLIFIER VOCIA AMPLIFIER
TESIRA SERVER-IO
NETWORK
VOCIA DS-10
DESK STATION
These DSPs just keep getting
smarter and smarter.
We’re so proud.
CASE STUDY
Denver, CO
USA
At 112 years old, the facility had never had an integrated audio system. It was important to
invest in the network infrastructure necessary to support the digital equipment, while also
maintaining the integrity of the building during the 126,000 square feet expansion.
Denver Museum of Nature and Science Expands its Facilities and Gives its 112-Year-Old
Building a Technology Face-Lift
[2] Tesira SERVER-IOs [1] SERVER [13] AudiaFLEX [3] Vocia VA-8600
challenge
system solution
takeaways
The goals of the Museum could not have been cost-effectively achieved with a single
product. Through the combination of AudiaFLEX and Vocia, the system works seamlessly.
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11 Configuration Engine
When we launched Audia in 2001, we
developed a software compiler to go with
it. But it was always a lot more than just
a compiler. We didn’t make a big enough
deal about it back then, so we’d like to
retroactively make a big deal about it now.
How We Do Technology
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A traditional software compiler takes code
that’s written in a human-readable format such
as a programming language like C, C++, Fortran
or Pascal, and converts it into machine code.
Machine code contains all the commands that
the actual processing chips read, and sets all of
the ones and zeroes to make the program work.
That is what a compiler does at its most basic.
In the case of a visual programming
environment like Audia or Tesira software,
our compiler is taking visual representations
of a program and turning that into machine
code. So, everything about an input block,
for example, needs to be turned into machine
code. The number of inputs, what those inputs
are “wired” to inside the design file, and what
physical inputs are actually being assigned
to that block, all needs to be converted into
machine code. Every single block. No matter
how big the file. It’s kind of a big job, and it has
to be perfect.
In computer time, that’s a lot of work and a lot
of computation cycles. But when we rolled out
our compiler in Audia, we were proud because
all that manual programming was no longer
necessary. The compiler quickly did all the hard
work. It also setup and configured CobraNet
connections for the system.
When we were developing Tesira, we asked the
compiler to do a lot more. We always knew that
our compiler was capable of great things, and we
wanted to realize that potential in Tesira. That’s
why we call it our “Configuration Engine.”
What does it do? It does all of the things that
Audia did, and then some. For example, anytime
audio needs to move from one piece of Tesira
gear to another, AVB streams are set-up to
contain any number of channels within the
420 x 420 channel count, connect listeners
and talkers, manage both kinds of devices, and
ensure all the right lines of audio are going to the
right place. Automatically. The system designer
never even needs to deal with it.
The configuration engine also computes the most efficient scenario of hardware that can operate
the design file, and tells you exactly what Biamp gear is needed. By “most efficient,” we mean “least
expensive.” Yes, the configuration engine will give you the most affordable system that can do what
your design is built to do. We know, pretty mind-blowing.
The configuration engine also keeps track of your partitions and knows what changes have occurred.
If you’ve changed a few partitions, but not all of them, and you hit the “Compile All” button, the
configuration engine will only compile the partitions that changed, dramatically cutting the compile
time.
In addition, the configuration engine takes responsibility for only taking down changed partitions
when you send an updated file back into a system that is running.
List of AVB-Capable Ethernet Switches
Tesira servers require an AVB-enabled switch to run. Here are some of the available AVB
switches currently on the market:
[1] Extreme Summit X430 [2] Extreme Summit X440 [3] Extreme Summit X460 [4]
Extreme Summit X670 [5] NETGEAR Prosafe GS724T
*You’ll find more helpful information like this on Cornerstone at support.biamp.com
TNT TIPS &
TRICKS
23. SO THERE YOU HAVE IT.
We do this work because
we love it and believe in it.
We are thrilled to be part of
this industry and take pride
in developing equipment
and technologies that
make your life easier, make
the industry stronger and
improve corporate campuses,
universities, transit facilities,
hospitals and conference
rooms, for thousands of end
users across the globe.
Not only do we invest in our
factory and equipment, but we
invest in our people. If you’ve
ever called our Applications
Engineers for tech support,
had the opportunity to
meet with any of our design
engineers or attended an
in-person training, you
know first-hand how smart
and willing they are to help
you. They’ve devoted huge
amounts of time to becoming
audio experts and it shows.
Technology is nothing without
the hearts and heads of good
people backing it up.
We believe that, because that’s
how we do audio.
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