Optocore upgrades DD32E to DD32R
Published: PRODUCTS
Optocore has upgraded its DD32E network interface to the DD32R, offering increases in feature set and efficiency, a reduced carbon footprint and a decrease in price.
The new R Series device provides 100 per cent more fibre bandwidth, offering 2GBit operation, for 1024 input channels per ring (plus an unlimited number of output channels). It also includes a full 100MBit Virtual Ethernet Switch over the entire network, and via the SANE port, the network designer can add analogue channels, further Ethernet and Madi devices to the network.
The unit has also had its power consumption reduced by 40 per cent. The DD32E multi-gigabit switch with 64 AES lines had a power draw of 22W, for the new version, this has been reduced to 14W.
Also new from Optocore is Multiple Emulation Mode (MEM) software, which will allow up to four mixing consoles will be able to control Optocore analogue devices, plus an unlimited number of computers.
MEM allows users to have a PC connected for matrixing and system diagnostics, while consoles control the gain of microphone preamps. The manufacturer claims that in more advanced set-ups multiple consoles can control the gain of networked preamps, even if these are different brands operating in parallel.
The manufacturer has also created new firmware for its DD4ME Madi network device to allow consoles from Digidesign to operate on its network. The new firmware enables the coaxial (BNC) ports to function not as Madi, but as Digidesign Venue’s proprietary coaxial digital snake. Several consoles and racks can be placed on the same network, and an unlimited number of splits of any input channel are possible.
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