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And to take this discussion to another level..... Behringer bought Klark Teknik and Midas. So they aquired the Sony Oxford built (in 2007 Klark Teknik bought Sony Oxford from Sony) AES50 and AES60. Right now the rest of the industry will move on towards AES67...... But once Mr Behringer finds out it's nothing more than a fancy version of AES60 I'm quite certain he will go to war...... Cause in his mind he bought the future of Pro audio. And left the rest of the bunch to deal with his patents.....
A couple minor quibbles...
AES-50 is a standard for audio transport over Ethernet, and it predates the IEEE standards that make up AVB. AES50 was extended to become SuperMAC, the Sony developed transport. It was further extended to become HyperMAC, also by Sony. Behringer owns the patents for SuperMAC and HyperMAC, but has no control over the underlying standards.
AES-67 is a recent standard, sometimes billed as a standard for audio transport over IP. But is a actually a standard for interconnection between different IP based audio protocols. It references the same IEEE standards that AVB references, but it operates over a higher layer in the network stack.
That said, I think Ethernet and/or IP stand to be the surviving transport for Audio, MIDI, DMX, Video, and Control (there is an AES standards committee hammering out an open control protocol, and there is also an independent consortium working on the same problem. This time around it appears they are talking to each other!)
I have a Dante I/O box in my studio. It just works, but latency is not on a par with any of the other approaches... yet. They recently upped the channel count from 64x64 to 512x512, and they are almost certainly working on the latency problem as I type, although I have no insider information one way or the other.
The real surprise right now is that Dante (proprietary) is crushing AVB,and Super/HyperMAC in the marketplace. Part of the reason may be audio folks are more comfortable working at the IP layer, Ethernet can be scary (not really) and device discovery/configuration is easier at the IP layer.
A friend of mine and I have played around with generic, network based I/O boxes for audio and MIDI. It will happen, it may not be us. And actually, as fewer and fewer folks depend on MIDI we could be completely off the mark!