What is MXL, and Why Does It Matter for Broadcast Audio?
When we talk about audio over IP in broadcast, the conversation almost always centres on network transport. How do we get audio from A to B over an IP network? That’s where Ravenna, AES67, Dante, and MADI-over-IP live. It’s an important problem, and the industry has largely solved it. But there’s a different problem that gets less attention: once audio arrives inside a software-defined or cloud-based facility, how does it move efficiently between applications? How does one process hand audio to the next without creating a bottleneck? ...