Facts About Cobranet Peoria IL

Source: PRO AV Magazine
Publication date: December 1, 2007

By ProAV Staff

• The name “CobraNet” actually has nothing to do with snakes. It is named after the Shelby Cobra race car.
• CobraNet ostensibly stands for Coordinated Broadcast Audio.
• It was invented in the mid-1990s by Peak Audio's Kevin Gross and several other engineers.
• CobraNet was first exhibited at an NSCA Expo, and the booth featured race-car legend Carroll Shelby's personal Cobra (serial number 1), adorned with “Connected by CobraNet” stickers.
• The first beta site for CobraNet was a Super Bowl. The first CobraNet products were QSC Audio's RAVE network products.
• CobraNet is a combination of software, hardware, and network protocol that allows distribution of many channels of real-time, high-quality digital audio over an Ethernet network.
• The first CobraNet devices were purple-colored boxes.
• CobraNet audio signals can travel 100 meters over a Cat-5 copper cable and 2 kilometers over multimode fiber. Proprietary Fast Ethernet via single mode fiber solutions can reach even farther.
• CobraNet can carry up to 128 audio channels over a single Cat-5 cable. Gigabit links provide even greater channel capacity.
• CobraNet is now owned and manufactured by Austin, Texas–based Cirrus Logic.
• Cirrus Logic acquired Colorado-based Peak Audio in 2001.

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