An Open-Standards Network is The Way to Go

Technologies for Worship Magazine: Even advocates of open-standards IP readily admit that they did not fully comprehend the elementary power of a network switch until they started using one. When you look at the price of a NetGear M4250 switch, for example, which offers 48 one-gigabit-per-second (1Gbps) ports and a 960 Gbps switching backplane, immense switching and transport power can be had for a tenth of the price a MADI router would cost. “A network switch allows you to transfer an insane amount of information almost for a song,” says Caleb Morris of Morris Collaboratives, a systems integrator headquartered in Irvine, California, who dedicates most of his time to outfitting churches with IP-based audio and video equipment.