Clear-Com uses AES67 audio extensively within our products and for two major reasons:

1. It is considered to be broadcast-quality audio.

2. The latency is incredibly low.

In order to support high quality audio with low latency, a timing clock called PTP is used to keep everything properly synced. There is normally 1x PTP GM reference clock in the system

PTP, or Precision Timed Protocol, is a network standard that is used extensively within the audio/visual world and requires your attention before deploying.

Here are some items to keep in mind:

1. Recommend 1Gb or more of bandwidth for each switch port.

2. Switch capacity that is 2x the number of ports. For example, if you have a 10-port switch, it should have switching capacity of 20 Gb/s.

3. EEE (Energy Efficient Ethernet) or Green Ethernet disabled.

4. IGMP snooping properly configured.

5. QoS (Quality of Service) properly configured.

6. AES67 devices cannot be more than 3 eth-switch hops from the PTP GM reference clock