Telos Alliance, the Cleveland-headquartered broadcast audio company that is parent to a host of familiar radio technology brands, has brought to market its next generation of AoIP interfaces.
As the successor to the venerable and proven xNode, the xNode2 is designed to be “universal translator” between external analog, microphone, and AES/EBU devices and Livewire+ AES67 AoIP networks.
The xNode2 retains a fanless half-rack form as seen with its predecessor. A redesigned internal hardware “serves as a foundation for meeting ever-evolving industry technical requirements,” the company says. Among these are dual 1000MB network interfaces for compliance with SMPTE 2022-7 (Seamless Protection Switching of RTP Datagrams), allowing streaming to separate network branches for audio redundancy and automatic failover to the available RTP stream.
Telos Alliance Program Manager Milos Nemcik said, “xNode2 carries forward the reliability, ease-of-use, and compact form factor that our customers love, while providing us with the platform we need to build an AoIP endpoint that will serve their needs for many years to come.”
xNode2 boasts a high-resolution, multi-function LCD color front panel display and an improved user interface. A combination of AC and PoE+ (IEEE 8023at) provides redundant power. Like the original xNode, xNode2 will be offered in five variations: Analog, AES/EBU, Microphone, Mixed-Signal, and GPIO.
The Microphone version of xNode2 will begin shipping at the end of October 2024, followed by AES/EBU, Mixed-Signal, GPIO, and finally, Analog xNode2 models by early December 2024.