TDM-based Wheatstone Bridge systems provide tried-and-true audio I/O routing, mixing, and audio networking in a flexible expandable system that can easily grow to over 3,000 x 3,000 crosspoints. Four frame sizes—Bridge, Satellite, E-SAT, and MicroSAT— accommodates various I/O requirements for TOC and studio installations.

Wheatstone Bridge ties it all together, as a central switch for your studio and TOC racks. Multiple-level redundancy is a hallmark of the Bridge and E-SAT audio networking architecture: redundant system and control surface CPUs, redundant DSPs, and redundant Bridge chassis with dual Cat-5 links from each I/O frame can provide full redundancy with automatic switchover.

Any signal anywhere.

Sounds simple enough, but designing a digital audio network gets more complicated when you think about the requirements: enough non-blocking bandwidth between any two points in your entire system to transceive as many audio and logic signals as you require at any given time.

Wheatstone has been supplying large networked audio systems now for over 5 years, with numerous installations comprised of a dozen or more studios. Our experience with these larger installations led us to develop the Wheatnet – a super high capacity audio network switch. We learned that busy engineers shouldn’t have to worry about bandwidth limitations and system capacity when planning a facility. The Wheatnet simplifies the process. It acts as the hub in a "hub and spoke" topology, and you simply plug your studio I/O frames into it.

• The Bridge I/O Mix Frame houses a family of cards that allows system access for virtually any audio source format and interface path: analog, digital AES (with sample rate convertors), MADI, SDI de-embedding, and control surface mix engine cards.
• An audio-to-ethernet portal provides single wire integration to station audio automation playback systems.
• The mix engine is integral to the router; therefore any input is available to any mix, and any input or mix is available to any output system wide—forming a true router-based network system.
• The BRIDGE 2RU core can switch 3072 audio channels to 3072 destinations—all at once, virtually latency free, without blockout.
• Systems can even be built with a pair of these units to give 100% instantaneous glitchless system wide redundancy—a feat that cannot be guaranteed with any other known technology.
• The core switch can connect to 48 I/O mix engine frames, each capable of over 512 audio I/O paths.
• Because the frame’s audio cards are front loading, service can be performed in real time.
• A selection of cards provides translation from analog, digital, SDI, and MADI inputs or outputs. Naturally, redundant cards can stand ready in each frame for those applications where failure is simply not an option.
• The Bridge card frame can provide virtually any type of mechanical interface most suited to your application. Interface modules simply plug in from behind to provide RJ, DB, BNC or screw terminal connections.
• Wheatstone can even provide prewire assemblies from punchblocks (DB connector, plug-in screw terminals or simple pigtail).

WheatNet Bridge Audio Network

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