The Mongoose and its Tracker software work with Rane?s Remotes Audio Devices (RADs) and your CobraNet network to deliver digital audio to the ?last mile? of installations ? between the equipment room/rack and remote spaces. OK, it?s not a mile, we lied: it?s actually 150 meters (492 feet to those in Liberia, Myanmar and the USA).

The Mongoose?s 32-by-32 digital audio matrix router receives its first 16 audio channels from up to eight RADs via the eight rear panel 8P8C (RJ-45) Remote Audio Device ports. The second 16 matrix input channels come from two eight-channel CobraNet receive (Rx) Bundles via standard CobraNet Primary and Secondary/backup ports. The 32 matrix router outputs transmit 16 channels to eight RADs and 16 more channels to two CobraNet transmit (Tx) Bundles.

A family of RAD models connect to the Mongoose. Each converts analog audio to or from 24-bit, 48 kHz digital audio. Shielded CAT 5e cable and termination transport four digital audio channels ? two channels in each direction ? as well as power, ground and a communications channel via Rane?s proprietary RAD Network. Status indicators are at the RAD signal entry points, at the front and back of the Mongoose, and in Mongoose Tracker software.