Sound/Video over IP (QLAN, Dante & more)

[Sterling]

Hey everyone. CCNA R&S here.

I have a potential client of mine that sometimes has issues with routing sound/video (for control systems) over ethernet. Some of the protocols include QLAN (proprietary by QSC) and Dante protocol (by Audinate).

I was wondering if anyone has experience with setting up networks to work with said devices? What kind of work/setup is needed?

I was told that Multicast routing, VLAN's, and QoS would need to be setup on L4 switches. (L3 switches for smaller setups)- this is due to the control signals also being on the network, and you wouldn't want the control signals to disrupt the UDP network traffic.

Thanks!

[Dennis Mink]

Are these protocols fully layer 3 compatible, i.e. do they run over IP.  Can you explain a bit about it?

[Jon Pain]

Check this out.  It's QSC Networking guide, and includes some Dante pieces in there too:

https://www.qsc.com/resource-files/productresources/dn/q_dn_qlan_notes.pdf

Should be all you need.