What is Milan?
Milan is a standards-based deterministic network protocol for real-time media that builds on the technical benefits of the open Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) standard developed by the IEEE, such as time synchronization and guaranteed delivery through prioritized network traffic.
Advantages.
Created and maintained by pro audio market leaders in the Avnu Alliance, Milan promotes interoperability and reduces the risk of vendor lock-in.
Milan’s main advantages are:
- Future-proofing via open IEEE standards
- Improved reliability: no dropouts or degradation
- Deterministic behaviour via reserved AV streams
- Coexistence of control data and media streams on one network port
- Seamless interoperability between Milan devices
- Seamless redundancy
- Flexible media clocking
- Hassle-free network setup as no special settings, such as QoS, need to be set within the switches to ensure delivery.
Milan and converged networks.
Of special value in converged networks is no further need to isolate the subsystems to guarantee congestion free operation.
Additionally, advanced media clocking schemes can be defined by the user, so that several subsystems can be clocked independently at either the same or different sampling rates, while still sharing the same network infrastructure.
As an open solution, Milan not only offers you investment security, but provides room for better integration with each manufacturer’s products and subsystems. This renders the networking part of a system transparent to the user, giving them the freedom to focus on delivering the best audio to the audience.
Milan system solutions.
Milan-AVB provides a strong foundation to build your ideal system vision upon. The DS20 Audio Network Bridge, D90 amplifier, and DS100M Signal Engine were the first d&b products to integrate Milan networking. Building on this foundation, the DS22 Audio Network Bridge streamlines input management with sixteen AES3 digital channels, four of which can be switched to analog. The DS1 USB Milan Interface enables direct audio playback and recording from PCs and Macs to Milan devices and amplifiers. The 5DM amplifier is a Milan-enabled installation specific high-density four channel amplifier that delivers efficient, reliable performance and seamless integration into a variety of setups. Rounding out the current d&b Milan ecosystem, the DN2 Ethernet PoE++ Switch is an 8-port Milan-AVB PoE++ switch designed specifically to power and supply Milan audio to the new d&b U-Series networked loudspeakers.