Front and Rear Panel Overview

Front Panel

Front panel features include:

  • USB 3.0 Type A connector (A)

  • 6.3mm (1/4") stereo headphone jack (B)

  • 1440x240 TFT touch display (C)

Figure 1 - AIXpressor front panel

Figure 1 - AIXpressor front panel

Rear Panel

Rear panel features include:

  • Dual 110V - 240V auto-ranging redundant load-balancing power supplies with individual power switches (A)

  • Four RJ45 1GB Ethernet connections for control and AoIP; LAN 3/4 internally connected to a switch

  • USB 3.0 Type A connector (C)

  • Status LED; green indicates normal operation (D)

  • Init/Reset Button; pressing briefly will shut down the CPU; pressing and holding until the Status LED flashes five times will return the unit to factory default settings (E)

  • USB 2.0 Type B connector for connecting to consoles, audio interfaces, Ethernet, etc. (F)

  • MADI I/O; SFP cages to hold modules for optical connections as MADI or tieLight interfaces (G)

  • 75 ohm BNC external sync connector, supporting Word Clock, AES, Black Burst, and Tri Level (H)

  • AES I/O via 25 pin D-Sub female connector; provides 4x AES3 In and Out; may be configured for 2x In and 6x Out (I)

  • Analog Output via 25 pin D-Sub female connector; provides 8x balanced analog outputs (K)

  • Analog Input via 25 pin D-Sub female connector; provides 8x balanced analog inputs, or may be configured for 4x In and 4x Out for a total of 12x analog outputs (L)

  • IF 1 - IF 4 slots to accommodate optional 3G-HD/SD SDI, 4x AES I/O, 4x analog I/O, 8x analog out, MADI I/O or Dante/AES67 interface boards (J)

Figure 2 - AIExpressor rear panel

Figure 2 - AIExpressor rear panel