Andreas Hildebrand is acting as Senior product manager for RAVENNA. His experience is based on merely 20 years of occupation within the Professional Audio/ Broadcasting industry. He received a graduate diploma in computer science and worked as a software engineer and head of development for companies in Germany and US for several years. Later engagements included senior project management responsibilities for a news system implementation at CNN/ Atlanta and WNPR/ Washington DC. Before joining ALC NetworX he was leading the Product Management at David Systems, an international operating software company in the Professional Audio/ Broadcast marked.

Andreas Hildebrand has outlined a few headlines his presentation will include:

Overview on key technologies                                                                                                       

• AES67 explained – what, why, when?
• RAVENNA & AES67 – introduction to RAVENNA and how AES67 relates to it
• Application examples (in-house distribution, event setup, remote production, OB vans etc.)
• Q&A / round table (a final QA round table with available experts from ??? on the general topic – usually people like to raise some questions or discuss topics at the end)

Network Technology Basics – and how they apply to audio networking in general                 

• Introduction to networking fundamentals (OSI layer etc.)
• Differences between circuit switching and packet switching
• Characteristics of packet switching (transport, routing, packet assembly, latency, QoS etc.)
• Layer 2 vs. layer 3 networks (advantages / disadvantages, limitations etc.)