Rane Mongoose

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Rane Mongoose Remote Audio Devices (RADs)
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Whats Mongoose?

• Mongoose is a Digital Router
• Ports for 8 RADs (Remote Audio Device)
• Each RAD can have up to 2 inputs and 2 outputs
• 16 X 16 from RADs plus 16 x 16 from CobraNet
• RADs Convert Audio to and from digital (AES3) at
  the wall
• Allows routing from RAD to RAD, RAD to CobraNet
  and or CobraNet to CobraNet

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Mongoose addresses these issues

• Plays well with others
• Works with any other CobraNet product
• Enhances capabilities of your favorite DSP, yet
  does not replace it
• Helps solve CobraNets bundle aggregation
  limitation inherent in some applications
• Simplifies wiring to save time money
• Solves last mile problem
• Cost effective CobraNet audio network entry and
  exit for a couple of audio channels

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Mongoose Applications

• Auditoriums, Churches, Hotel Ballrooms, Theaters,
  Stadiums, Arenas, Convention Centers, Campuses,
  medium to larger Bar/Restaurants/Clubs...
• PROBLEM transmit receive a small number of
  audio channels (2-6) to multiple scattered
  locations within remote rooms to/from equipment
  rack(s)
• SOLUTION Mongoose RADs

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RAD Network - CAT 5 Details
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Analog Method
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Mongoose Digital Method
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Tie Line Application

• Mongoose can be used as a digital router
• No CobraNet used when fewer than 8 RADs are
  needed

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RAD to/from any CobraNet device(including
another Mongoose)

• Need more than 8 RADs, use another Mongoose
• Any CobraNet device DSP, loudspeaker, console

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School Auditorium

• School play? 4 mics at the stage can be sent to
  the CobraNet DSP box (lower left) for mixing,
  then sent back (on the same CobraNet/CAT 5
  cable!) to the powered loudspeakers.
• The iPod and mic at the rear of the room could be
  used for music announcements in the system.

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Hotel

• Here, 16 RADs ( therefore 2 Mongi) needed to
  route audio throughout the system and to/from the
  CobraNet DSP(s)

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Front Rear panels

• 8 RAD port Indicators show audio sig/ol
  direction (in or out)
• CobraNet Indicators for the audio network
• Ethernet indicators for control network, plus
  Locate/Power
• IEC Locate/Power Indicators CobraNet
  Status RAD Status
• Physical Ethernet (control), CobraNet (audio)
  RAD Ports

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RAD Models

• RAD1 - Two Mic Inputs

• RAD2 - One Mic Input, One Consumer Line-Level
  Input (all 4 summed to mono)

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RAD Models

• RAD3 - Two Line-Level Inputs

• RAD4 - Two Line-Level Outputs more models
  on the way

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Back of RAD

• 8P8C connector (aka RJ-45) easily accessible
• At front of remote to permit lots of room for
  cable bend radius within electrical box
• Either Or Feature
• Euroblocks on mic inputs permit paralleling 2 XLR
  jacks into a single mic input stage (for
  situations where only 1 mic is plugged in at a
  time)

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Lots of RAD Options.
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RAD Labels

• RADs ship with a default label (as shown)
• Rotate it 180 to blank the label when using
  custom-etched plates or panels

• Custom labels supported
• Naming channels in Tracker software
• Print out labels from the Rane-generated pdf
  file
• Cut, Insert/Replace the defaultlabel, Align
  Trim in place

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Distance Limitations (CAT 5)
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Distance Limitations (fiber)
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Mongoose Tracker Software
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Some Early Mongoose Installs
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July 2008 - Arizona State Univ

• 5 Classrooms, 3 of them combine
• 27 RADs, 5 Mongoose with 4 Biamp Audias
• Consultant
• Paul Corraine, Convergent Technologies,
  Baltimore, MD
• Contractor
• TPI, Phoenix, AZ

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October 2008

• Arnhem Town Hall
• 2 Conference Systems
• 7 RADs, 1 Mongoose
• w/ Biamp Audia
• Design Geert Snijkers, Electric Sound, Amsterdam
• Contractor Pieee Solutions, Apeldoorn,
  Netherlands

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October 2008

• Schuberg Philis, Amsterdam
• Audio distribution to various rooms -
  restaurant, stereo bar, subwoofer, etc.
• 8 RADs, 1 Mongoose w/ Biamp Audia
• Design Geert Snijkers, Electric Sound, Amsterdam
• Contractor JNV Audio-Visueel,'s-Hertogenbosch
  (aka Den Bosch), Netherlands

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November 2008

• Great Wolf Lodge, Grapevine, Texas
• Room combine w/ BSS Blu-800s
• 12 RADs, 2 Mongoose
• Contractor M.G.R. Pro Audio/Video, Flint, MI
• Also going into future Great Wolf Locations

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