Posts

When planning temporary WAN services for major sports events, one question comes up again and again: how much bandwidth do our Ravenna audio streams need? Fibre connectivity is expensive, and over‑provisioning costs money. For years I used a basic Excel spreadsheet to estimate bandwidth — it worked, but it was slow to update, hard to share, and far from elegant. So I built something better. RavennaCalc is a clean, browser‑based bandwidth calculator for Ravenna/AES67 streams. It’s open‑source, takes seconds to use, and gives reliable estimates without the spreadsheet overhead. ...

Every year I go to a trade show and hear the same thing: SDI is dead, IP is the future, and anyone still running coax is holding back progress. I’ve been hearing this for the better part of a decade now. And yet, when I’m on-site at a major live event - wiring up comms systems, routing audio under pressure, troubleshooting at midnight before a show goes on air - SDI is still there, doing exactly what it’s always done. Quietly and reliably. ...