Meanwhile, at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) in California, a 27-year-old recent PhD graduate called Robert Metcalfe has been tasked with adding networking functionality to the company’s new Alto computer - the machine whose revolutionary graphical user interface would famously ‘inspire’ Steve Jobs. In America, Skylab is launched, and Richard Nixon confesses to his role in the Watergate cover-up. In Britain, VAT and the Austin Allegro have recently been introduced.
The home of Ethernet: Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center. So why has it taken so long for Ethernet to reach the recording studio, and what key benefits does it have to offer? To find the answers, we need to take a look at the development of Ethernet itself, and that means going back, back through the swirling mists of time. Yet, in principle, Ethernet has unique advantages over other formats, and it has already come to dominate the worlds of installation and high-end live sound. It wasn’t until 2011 - 26 years after the publication of the IEEE 802.3 standard - that the first DAW-focused Ethernet recording interfaces appeared. Until recently, however, the oldest and most ubiquitous connection format of all was absent from this list.
Today, anyone wishing to add a high-quality, low-latency, multi-channel audio interface to a computer is spoiled for choice, with devices available in a whole host of formats: PCI, PCI Express, Cardbus, Expresscard, FireWire 400 and 800, USB Full-Speed, High-Speed and Super-Speed and Thunderbolt 1 and 2. We explain how it works - and why there are so many protocols! The humble Ethernet cable: key to the future of digital audio?Īlready dominant elsewhere, audio over IP is poised to take over the studio world.
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