AES Technical Committee

Network Audio Systems

Chair:    Kevin Gross    (Send E-mail)
Vice Chair:    Thomas Sporer    (Send E-mail)
Vice Chair:    Umberto Zanghieri    (Send E-mail)

To inform the AES and other organizations on issues pertinent to our committee's focus area, with an emphasis on local and wide-area networks. The emphasis accompanies a major increase in network scale, bandwidth and quality of service, making it possible to consider brand new classes of audiovisual applications, as well as unconventional and high-performance implementations of existing ones.


Areas of Concentration

  1. Research, Development Involving Networked Audio Systems
  2. Audio Systems Connected Via Large Scale High Speed Networks

Recent/Planned Activities

  • 127th AES Convention Workshop: Redundancy in Audio Networks
  • AES Whitepaper: Best Practices in Network Audio
  • 125th AES Convention Workshop: Audio Networking for the Pros
  • 119th AES Convention Workshop on Networked Audio Systems -- What, How and Why?
  • 117th AES Convention Special Event - Streaming DSD audio performance
  • 114th AES Convention Workshop on LAN delivery of audio and application to digital libraries
  • 109th AES Convention Special Event - Streaming 12 channel 24bit/96kHz audio performance
  • 107th AES Convention Special Event - Streaming AC-3 audio performance
  • 105th AES Convention Special Event - Internet2 "Round Table" Forum
  • AES Technical Council White Paper on Internet 2 " Technology Report TC - NAS1/98 "


Meeting Report:

These documents do not necessarily express the official position of the AES on the issues discussed at these meetings, and only represent the views of committee members participating in the discussion. Any unauthorized use of these publications is prohibited. Authorization must be obtained from the Executive Director of the AES: E-mail, Tel: +1 212 661 8528, Address: 60 East 42nd Street, Room 2520, New York, New York 10165-2520, USA.

2011-11-29     TC-NAS minutes: AES 131st
Description: Network Audio Systems Technical Committee Meeting Report from the AES 131st Convention in New York

2010-12-29     TC-NAS minutes: AES 129th
Description: Network Audio Systems Technical Committee Meeting Report from the AES 129th Convention in S. Francisco

2010-11-2     TC-NAS minutes: AES 128th
Description: Network Audio Systems Technical Committee Meeting Report from the AES 128th Convention in London

2009-10-15     TC-NAS minutes: AES 127th
Description: Network Audio Systems Technical Committee Meeting Report from the AES 127th Convention in New York

2008-12-6     Network Audio TC Minutes: AES 125th
Description: Network Audio Systems Technical Committee Meeting Report from the AES 125th in San Francisco

1999-1-10     Network Audio TC minutes 9.98
Description: Network Audio Systems Technical Committee Meeting Report ---including, information on committee's activities during the last AES convention in San Francisco in September.


Technical Report:

2011-11-29     Emerging Technology Trends
Description: Emerging Technology Trends Report updated November 2011


Other:

2011-1-7     Network comparison update
Description: Update for whitepaper network comparison chart. Adds Q-LAN and AVB

2010-10-13     Broadband Multimedia 2011
Description: Call for papers

1999-1-27     Brief: AES visits White House
Description: The AES was invited to the White House to speak about Music and Audio using Advanced Networks


Committee Members

 Atau Tanaka  Bernhard Grill  Bob Moses 
 Brent Harshbarger  Chris Gaunt  Christoph Musialik 
 David Wessel  David Zicarelli  Elizabeth Cohen 
 Gerald Schuller  German Casado  Hermes Wordemann 
 Jeremy Cooperstock  John Strawn  Jonathan Kay 
 Juergen Herre  Jun Murai  Karlheinz Brandenburg 
 Marina Bosi  Miguel de Miguel  Morten Lave 
 Oscar Cabezudo  Peter Otto  Philip Nye 
 Robert Ellis-Geiger  Robert Rowe  Stephen Pope 
 Thomas Sporer  Wieslaw Woszczyk  John Grant 
 Chris Fehring  Brenda Ferry  Dave Burnor 
 Kevin Heber  Kendall Castor-Perry  Chris Chambers 
 Carl Conrad  Steven Harris  Lars Jonsson 
 Stefan Shibata  Robert Sloan  Jeremie Weber 
 Junichi Yoshio  Kevin Gross  William L Martens 
 Nuno Fonseca  Mathias Coinchon  Conrad Cooke 
 Michael Page  Olaf Titel  Florian Lenzner 
 Peter Alyea  Tom Blank  Aki Makivirta 
 Richard Foss  Ram Shenkar  Istvan B. Kadar 
 Frederick Ampel  Alastair Walker  Juergen Peissig 
 Gregory Shay  Garth Wiebe  Mark Gilbert 
 Chris Jubien  Stephen Turner  Stephen Jones 
 Varuni Witana  Jonas Braasch  Andrew Elder 
 Umberto Zanghieri  Chris Chafe  Michelle Daniels 
 Stefan Heinzmann  Aidan Williams  Tom Schlum 
 Robert Gurdan  Warren Osse  Nyasha Chigwamba 
 Marc Benard  Herve LeDevelat  Andrew Hollis 
 Joffrey Heyraud  Dale Rochon  Mark Stebbeds 
 Rick Kreifeldt  Andreas Floros  Christiane Bangert 
 David Hoatson  Christoph Pfeiffer  Maxim Graubner 
 Peter Stevens  Alexander Carot  Alain Renaud 
 Robert Economaki  Anders Magnusson  Johan Berg 
 Ulrich Kraemer  Frederic Taury  Larry Bryan 
 Nathan Brock  Bradford Benn  Vene Garcia 
 Yves Ansade  Andrew Eales  Marc Brunke 
 Anton Prins  Tim Shuttleworrth  Zeb Wall 
 Osedum Igumbor  Philip Foulkes  James Dibley 
 Andreas Hildebrand  Gints Linis  Patrick Warrington 
 David Wooff  Harold Okai-Tettey  Ron Neely 

To request membership in this Technical Committee please e-mail the Chair by using the link above.

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