BANDWIDTH

PRAESENSA Network Setup – Technical Training Master

Bandwidth
 Maximum throughput of a logical or physical communication path
 Bandwidth will be determined by
 The sample rate (how many samples per second) [48 kHz]
 Encoding (how many bits per sample) [24 bps]
 You can’t just multiply the numbers (e.g. 48000*24=1.15Mbit/s) because:
 Ethernet (UDP) packets require additional info like MAC address, IP address, UDP packet header, CRC,
etc. This addes up to a total of 75 bytes!
 OMNEO encrypted audio adds 8 bits per sample
 If you allow more latency you can increase the number of samples in a packet (in PRAESENSA 32
samples are collected per audio packet)
 The number of slots (how many audio channels) [1]
 Changes in Bandwidth can affect the amount of time required for a set of data to travel from point A to
point B.

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Bandwidth
 After an audio channel has been set up, the bandwidth used by this channel will remain the same.
It doesn’t matter if the channel has been filled or not (muted)
 Valid for both unicast and multicast flows

 Latency doesn't affect bandwidth, but insufficient bandwidth can increase latency
 To guarantee the audio quality on the network you should avoid the use of > 70% of the available
bandwidth. So you can use up to 700Mbit/s on a Gbit Ethernet
 Be aware that you probably need bandwidth for control traffic. The amount depends greatly on
the application so can not be given here.

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Bandwidth
 Changing the latency would automatically change the number of audio samples per packet
according the following table:
Rx Latency Samples/packet 48 kHz/24-bit 48 kHz/secure

1 ms 16 2.95 Mbit/s 3.34 Mbit/s

>2 ms 32 2.05 Mbit/s 2.44 Mbit/s

 With >2ms latency the packet size can be larger, so relatively less overhead leading to lower
bandwidth
 For PRAESENSA is chosen for a latency of 10 ms, which allows 32 samples per packet
 PRAESENSA internal routing always uses multicast flows of 1 channel.

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Bandwidth
 Example calculation of One Channel in a Flow
 Sample depth is 24 bits
 Encryption adds 8 bits per sample
 32 samples per channel
 Sample rate of 48 kHz
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Bandwidth

 Packet size = Header + Samples per channel * channels per flow * sample dept
= 75 + 32 * 1 * (32 / 8)
= 203 bytes

 # Packets/s = Sample rate / Samples per channel

= 48000 / 32
= 1500

 Bandwidth = Packet size * # Packets per second [Megabits per second]

= 203 * 1500 * 8 / 1000000
= 2,44 Mbps

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