ednet has been in service since June 1992 and has over 500 sites on its ISDN Audio Network alone!

ednet provides equipment called codecs to allow studios, broadcasters and talent to send and receive high-fidelity production-quality audio (and video) over special digital telephone lines.

No. These connections do not use the public Internet. Instead, the audio travels over direct, secure, reliable ISDN digital data calls. These are 2-way, real-time connections that allow very high fidelity communications between cities or across oceans. It's like a "long distance extension cord" for your audio content.

The word codec is a combination of the term’s encoder and decoder. This is the piece of equipment that sends and receives the high fidelity audio. It interfaces with the ISDN equipment (sometimes call the Terminal Adapter or TA).

ednet has several products and services for sending video over ISDN. See the video section of this site to learn more.

ednet currently has members in 42 states of the USA, 6 Canadian provinces, 30 Countries around the world, and is growing every month. ednet has nearly 500 domestic and international Affiliates and Associates to connect with. To get specific recommendations for studios in a particular city, you can check our on-line directory under the affiliate section of this site, or you may call our scheduling desk at 1.800.93.ednet.

Yes and no, each codec type is capable of direct connections with similar types, based on commonality of compression standard. But some codec types are unable to dial direct to other brands. However, all ednet codecs can be interconnected or "EDlinked" (bridged, linked, digitally transcoded) to each other or to other codecs (i.e. Dolby, Telos Zephyr, APTx, Musicam CDQ2000 or Prima) through ednet's Network Operating Center in San Francisco.

For advice on how to choose an appropriate codec for your application contact ednet at 800-933-3638 with your specific needs for an immediate quote.

Yes. ednet can arrange a third party leasing program with any of our many leasing partners. Of course, we can also work with your own leasing associates.

Yes. While you may receive solicitations from another equipment dealer, we believe that there are advantages in acquiring your equipment from someone with whom you may wish to have an ongoing network affiliation and whom you know has knowledgeable 24x7 technical support.

Most of our products cannot be purchased directly from the manufacture. We work very closely with all of the manufacturers and they are well acquainted with the long-term advantages of affiliation with a network. When you purchase through ednet you actually have both the product manufacturer and ednet behind you!

Our monthly network connection charge is equivalent to a direct pass-through of ISDN charges, the monthly connection costs you would incur anyway.

Volume. To cover the costs of maintaining a managed network, ednet makes its profit from its arrangements to purchase long distance services at wholesale rates due to the volume it purchases.

Yes. You can become an ednet AFFILIATE by ordering ISDN service from us or transferring the ownership (and thus the responsibility) of your telecommunications lines to ednet. ednet will add your studio information to its electronic database and announce your affiliation to each of its other AFFILIATE studios, unless you choose to remain "unlisted".

Should you desire, ednet also offers a Network ASSOCIATE program, where you retain ownership and responsibility for your own lines, but will be listed in ednet's database of studios. This enables ednet staff to recommend your studio for various projects when producers approach them for studio referrals. Go to the AFFILIATE section of this site for more information on the program.

Yes. ednet will bill monthly from our telephone bill data. Our unique billing format gives you a clear picture of which studio you dialed, and for how long.

ednet updates its online directory continuously, listing all facilities that have become a part of the ednet service. The directory shows studio name, scheduling contact, and direct-dial numbers for network access, and is available to Affiliates through this web site.