Your intercom matrix, on every phone — over Dante

Why Dante

Most current intercom matrices already offer Dante or AES67 interface cards, and many trucks route intercom ports over Dante today. A Windows PC running Dante Virtual Soundcard joins that network like any other Dante device — no new hardware goes into the matrix and nothing changes for the beltpacks.

How it works

1. Install Dante Virtual Soundcard and the Active Intercom Bridge app on a Windows PC in the truck's Dante network.
2. In Dante Controller, route the matrix ports you want to share — for example the director partyline or a commentator IFB — to the virtual soundcard channels.
3. In the Bridge app, map each channel to an Active Intercom channel (up to 16 channels per bridge PC in the first release).
4. Remote users talk and listen in those channels from the app. For the matrix, each bridged channel is simply one more port.

No Dante in the truck? Use 4-wire

The same Bridge app works with an analog 4-wire port through an Audinate AVIO analog adapter or a USB audio interface. One 4-wire port equals one intercom channel, talk and listen.

What the remote side gets

• Push-to-talk keys for the bridged partylines, next to your own Active Intercom channels
• IFB from the director in the truck straight into a commentator's ear
• The commentator console into vMix or Relaya cloud production
• Mobile data or Wi-Fi, with the phone locked, through our TURN relay when networks are strict

Why we are building it

At crowded venues, wireless beltpack systems run out of clean spectrum while phones on mobile data keep working. Crews told us the same thing again and again: the phone intercom worked, but it could not reach the truck's matrix. The bridge closes that gap.