BirdDog today announced a three-pillar strategy to bring Dante, the world’s premier audio over IP format, into its product line-up:
- Dante will be supported in all existing hardware, including hardware already shipped by way of a $69 software update. This is expected to be available in Q2, 2020.
- Dante will be coming soon in BirdDog’s groundbreaking Audio Intercom software, Comms Pro via a $129 update.
- A new Dante Bridge software application, coming soon, will allow audio channels from NDI streams to be output to Dante and also for inputting Dante audio into the NDI world bridging the two worlds.
BirdDog Hardware 
BirdDog Comms Pro 
BirdDog Dante NDI Bridge
Key features
- New Dante Bridge software for bridging Dante and NDI, the World’s Premier IP formats
- New Dante support planned for all BirdDog hardware including Converters and PTZ cameras
- New Dante support for BirdDog Comms Pro, the revolutionary visual audio intercom system
What is Dante?
Dante is the leading AV-over-IP solution in the world, found in over 2000 products from more than 400 manufacturers. Dante replaces point-to-point analog and digital connections with a standard IP network that delivers completely lossless audio, massive channel counts and near infinite signal routing flexibility, all while being incredibly easy to deploy and use.
For many installations, many felt that it was one of the missing elements to NDI. With the new venture for Dante & NDI, mixing in audio sources with NDI video sources will now be easier than ever.
You can learn more about Dante at the Audinate website.
We are super excited to be partnering so closely with Audinate to bring Dante support to our customers… Dante is the world’s leading audio over IP format and support into our hardware has easily been our number one feature request.
Dan Miall, BirdDog Co-Founder and CEO
Dante is available in over 2000 products from more than 400 manufacturers, covering a diverse range of installations and applications across industries, including Houses of Worship, Arenas and Stadiums, Recording Studios, Conference Centres, Universities, Broadcaster Studios, Corporate Studios, Amusement Parks, Zoos, and Theatres.
Dante is used in thousands of devices offering our customers uncompromising audio quality and performance over IP networks. By enabling Dante in BirdDog hardware and software, users can now seamlessly interact with the entire Dante ecosystem. We look forward to seeing innovative IP based broadcast and live production workflows enabled through this partnership.
Aidan Williams, CEO of Audinate
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