Originally Posted by John Kotches
George,

You have to assemble the stream and send it to wherever is next with high precision or jitter will be a factor.

In the end, the final assembly point must clock as there is no embedded clock within the TCP packets.

Cheers,

Agreed it eventually has to get carefully clocked into a DAC. That doesn't prevent the initial transmission from being ethernet. Reassembling, buffering and reclocking is peanuts. Slim Devices, Solos etc. have proven it works quite well. Managing more than two channels with say one ethernet link per pair is a challenge but quite doable.

- Fiddler (IMHO)

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