ALP881e
Versatile Multichannel Digital Audio for Mission-Critical Systems
ALP881e
The ALP881e is a low-profile, multichannel PCI Express sound card engineered for professional PC-based audio systems on Windows and Linux
Drivers for Windows and Linux
64 or 128 playback channels
64 or 128 recording channels
Switching ports mode Redundant ports mode
Benefits
Trustworthy protocol, regardless of PC performances
Compliant with AES67, RAVENNA, SMPTE ST2110-30 / ST2022-7
2 or 4 Eth ports for redundancy and switching
PTP slave, PTP master, PTP Grand Master
One product, 3 possible formats
Low profile bracket, full-height bracket and additional 2 Ethernet ports expansion card included as standard in the package.
4 Eth ports
Specifications
Format
Expansion card and full-height bracket included as standard in the package.
2 Eth ports – Low profile PCI Express
L: 168 mm x H: 69 mm x l: 20 mm
L: 6.6 inch; H: 2.7 inch; l: 0.8 inch
4 Eth ports – Low profile PCI Express
L: 168 mm x H: 69 mm x l: 40 mm
L: 6.6 inch; H: 2.7 inch; l: 1.6 inch
4 Eth ports – Full-height profile PCI Express
L: 168 mm x H: 99 mm x l: 20 mm
L: 6.6 inch; H: 3.9 inch; l: 0.8 inch
Expansion Bus
PCI Express TM (PCIe TM) x1 (x2, x4, x8, x16 compatible)
Control panel
Asio Control Panel: up to 8 ALP-X cards
Select I/Os used through Asio
(others can be used through Wasapi)
Digigram ALP-X Manager (Windows)
One unified control panel for the whole ALP-X range
Manages up to 8 ALP-X cards
Vu-meters, clock frequency
Firmware update

Drivers and OS
Versions
- 64 in / 64 out channels
- 128 in / 128 out channels
Network connectivity
- 2 x Gbps Eth ports that can be used in redundant mode (ST 2022-7),
- or in switching mode
Configuration with 4 network ports
- Switch mode (the 4 ports are identical)
- ST 2022-7 mode:
- 2 pairs of redundant ports,
- or 1 pair of redundant ports and 2 ports for Out of Band management.
Input and output channels
|
ALP AES67-64 |
ALP AES67-128 |
|
| 44.1kHz / 48 kHz |
64 x 64 |
128 x 128 |
| 88.2 kHz / 96 kHz |
32 x 32 |
64 x 64 |
| 176.4 kHz and 192 kHz |
16 x 16 |
32 x 32 |
Audio streams
- Max 64 input streams
- Max 64 output streams
AoIP compliance
- RAVENNA
- SMPTE ST 2110-30 Level A, AX, B, BX, C, CX
- SMPTE ST 2022-7 Class A,B,C,D
Buffering
Sample format
In band or Out of band management
- WEB GUI
- Aneman & MTDiscovery (Merging Technologies)
- NMOS IS=04 & IS=05 (Discovery & Registration, Connection management)
