All the groups on Luminex switches are configured to work with the Audinate Dante audio protocol out-of-the-box, no additional configuration is needed.
GigaCore switches are managed switches with a friendly user interface. The Araneo software can be used to manage and monitor all GigaCore switches in a network at the same time.
Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE, Greeen Ethernet,...) is not available on GigaCore since it interferes with a lot of AV protocols
All GigaCore switches are at least 1Gbps capable. Select models have 10Gbps SFP+ ports which can be helpful for higher-bandwidth trunks.
GigaCore switches have a non-blocking siwtching capacity. Each port can run at full speed in both directions (TX / RX).
IGMP snooping and IGMP querier are enabled in all groups (VLANs) by default. It is easy to select a hierarchy of IGMP querier switches. Araneo recognizes the Dante-related IGMP subscriptions and shows these in the IGMP table:
The following video demonstrates a redundant GigaCore network with Dante multicast: