Cardinal Peak and Audinate Announce Strategic Partnership Dante Networked Audio and Video Solutions

January 24 2024, 15:10
Cardinal Peak, the recognized product design and engineering services provider, and Audinate, the developer of Dante audio networking technology, have announced a strategic development partnership aimed at reducing time to market and development costs for new Dante-enabled pro audio and video products. With more manufacturers interested in Dante integration in a growing number of products, Cardinal Peak will support product engineering efforts.
By combining Cardinal Peak's renowned product engineering capabilities with Audinate's industry-leading Dante professional audio networking technology, now expanding to include also video signals together with multichannel audio on the same cable, the partnership addresses the growing demands for sophisticated, scalable and interoperable audio and video solutions across industries.

According to the two companies, the strategic partnership will value Cardinal Peak's embedded engineering and software development expertise, making it uniquely qualified to implement Audinate's software-driven AV solution, Dante Embedded Platform (DEP). A cost-effective option, manufacturers can run DEP on their boards without the need for additional modules.

The collaboration also focuses on leveraging the latest advancements in digital audio networking technology to design state-of-the-art products and solutions that cater to the evolving needs of professionals in broadcast, live sound, commercial installations and beyond.

"We are excited to embark on this strategic development partnership with Audinate and be a preferred integration partner for Dante," says Mark Carrington, CEO at Cardinal Peak. "By leveraging our expertise in audio and video technologies with Audinate's Dante, we aim to accelerate time to market for Audinate's customers."
 

Together, the companies intend to offer improved outcomes for the next generation in professional audio and video solutions, ensuring high fidelity and low latency for managing and distributing multiple audio and video streams across geographically large areas.

"Collaborating with Cardinal Peak to provide Dante enablement services is another way we can support our customers and help them to get their innovative products to market quicker and at a lower cost," ays Mark Gerrard, group product manager at Audinate. "Together, we are well positioned to deliver innovative, scalable and interoperable solutions that will shape the future of the AV industry."

As an Audinate design partner, Cardinal Peak has already developed multiple products using the Dante protocol, particularly for professional audio companies. Now, a growing number of companies doing AV solutions, projectors, signal distribution units and PTZ cameras also want to add Dante AV interfaces. Cardinal Peak knows how to leverage Dante to deliver those products as discussed in Cardinal Peak’s webpage on low-latency networked audio product design leveraging Dante.
 

Cardinal Peak is a Colorado-based product engineering services company and a wholly owned subsidiary of the globally leading technology and IT services provider FPT Software.
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