User Manual

M-Series 10 / 28 rev. 1.2
Device Description
Congratulations on your purchase of a M-Series device standalone MADI switch with Optical Digital Network
Interface with Cat5 based SANE, Ethernet and data interfaces. The M-Series device manual will quickly
demonstrate the advantages of the device and help to ease your day-to-day workload in a professional audio-
visual environment.
The M-Series device is a standalone MADI switch, which can be networked and integrated with the OPTICAL
OPTOCORE
®
and CAT5 SANE DIGITAL NETWORK SYSTEMs. The unit provides up to eight MADI input and MADI
output ports, offering up to 512 input and 512 output digital audio channels on coaxial and/or fiber MADI. Each MADI
port can be adjusted to handle different formats according to the AES standards (56 or 64-channel MADI). Device can
operate in sample rates up to 192 kHz (sample rates above 96 kHz are available upon request). The device is
perfectly suitable for 3
rd
party equipment integration, especially with Soundcraft, Studer, Lawo, SSL digital
consoles.
The M12 can be equipped with any combination of two MADI boards – 4 dual-port coaxial MADI board or 4
duplex optical MADI board. As a result M12 switch can be delivered in 3 different flavors – M12-OPT (8 duplex
Optical MADI ports), M12-BNC (8 dual coaxial MADI ports) or M12-OPT/BNC (4 duplex optical MADI and 4 dual
coaxial MADI ports).
The M8 can be equipped with one of MADI board - 4 dual-port coaxial MADI board or 4 duplex optical MADI
board. M8 switch can be delivered in 2 options – M8-OPT (4 duplex Optical MADI ports) or M8-BNC (4 dual
coaxial MADI ports).
Redundant fibre Optocore connections can be established using two provided SFP-based LC multimode or
singlemode optical LINK-interfaces. The dual redundant ring structure provides maximum safety in a network with
an outstanding low latency. It facilitates the use of the advantages of fibre optical transmission in all sorts of
temporary and permanent applications, especially when long distance connections and high-quality audio are
required.
The M-Series device enables connectivity to the SANE network via RJ45 ports. It is possible to use SANE as a
Cat5 based cost-efficient extension to the optical core system. SANE ports may be used as point-to-point MADI
over Cat5 or as a bridge interface between SANE and OPTOCORE, providing in total up to 128 input and 128
output additional channels.
Two built-in Ethernet ports can be used to establish 100Mbit Ethernet LAN through the OPTOCORE and SANE
networks. The M-Series device together with R-Series devices behaves like one 100Mbit Ethernet switch. SANE
ports can be used for Ethernet transport as well, so up to four ports can be used to provide Local Ethernet
connection via single M-Series device.
The M-Series device provides both word clock input and output. Additionally four RS485 ports allow the transport
of a wide range of standards such as RS422, DMX, MIDI, and CAN-Bus (bi-directional, requires special firmware
version). In addition to the audio signals, video and data signals are transmitted through the common fibre
connection. The dual power supply unit, with automatic switchover, permits a redundant power supply and
safeguards against malfunctions in the event of a power supply failure.
The M-Series devices are the perfect I/O interfaces for a wide range of professional audio devices with MADI
inputs and outputs such as digital consoles and I/O systems. The high number of channels exchanged by one M-
Series device makes it the ideal and the most cost effective interface for digital console systems as well as a
perfect central device offering individual channel routing feature. The number of input channels can be defined in
groups of eight by the OPTOCORE CONTROL software. Only this number of channels is allocated for
transmission via fibre optical connection. This keeps the system highly flexible in order to build the network
exactly suiting the application needs. The M-series device, for example, can transmit 128 channels to a digital
console system from various Optocore devices such as DD32R-FX, X6R-FX or V3R-TP. If only eight return
channels from the console are required, only those eight channels instead of 512/256 inputs can be received at
Please note:
Fiber MADI ports on M-Series devices are equipped with special fiber transceivers
which support both singlemode and multimode connectivity. Please use multimode
cable in each case