Aki Mäkivirta, Manager of R&D, about RAVENNA:
"Genelec has been conducting an extensive research programme on the potential of IP technology for professional audio applications for some years now. We believe that standards-based IP audio networking is the right, reliable and robust way of approaching the needs of the professional audio market. Widespread use of IP networking solutions can facilitate customers with the benefits from the latest developments in IP technology and continually improving services. International cooperation across the industry is required to realize the open IP networking technology solutions for the professional audio market. RAVENNA is an excellent example of such cooperation. RAVENNA offers the way forward to open, standards-based, end-to-end IP solutions with quality acceptable to the professional audio world. RAVENNA establishes the foundation for moving pristine digital audio all the way from microphones to processing and storage equipment out to the loudspeakers."