What are the possibilities of Vienna Ensemble Pro streaming through tunderbolt? I ask because I noticed that large sessions get the network card pretty hot when streaming 15MB/s. Thunderbolt seems ready to take on more than just hard drives and its bandwith makes you want to breach the limit. The only limitation I see is the current lack of a thunderbolt switch to make use of multiple slaves. Perhaps Apple needs to be asked about that.
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VE Pro via ThunderBolt
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though thunderbolt is a great connectivity (up to 20 Mbit/sec) for PCIe-like devices and display signals to my knowledge it cannot be mapped to a network layer.
so it would be restricted to any point-to-point type connections, though some controllers would allow daisy-chaining.
in former OS X and windows versions it was possible to run ethernet over firewire, but i'd assume we won't see this for thunderbolt.
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As it happens, thunderbolt can carry GigaEthernet - but you need a "translation" layer - ie, a "hub" to use it.... in which case, it is not that different to just plugging it into your computer. The new mac displays (connected by tbolt) have a gigaEthernet socket, and the new belkin thunderbolt hub has usb, fw and gigaEthernet ports.
I do not know of the ability "yet" to directly network 2 computers thru connecting up thunderbolt cables. I assume that if it happens (if it hasn't already) it would be thru still using a ethernet IP layer within the thunderbolt connect. I would expect this to occur at some stage given current implementations / uses of the tbolt technology.
Cheers! Brendan.
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hmmm, i couldn't find any hint that thunderbolt can carry gigabit ethernet, the specification says display port signals and up to 4 PCIe lanes.
this means you can plug a gigabit ethernet adapter (or some device which is providing a gigabit ethernet port) to your thundebolt bus, but then again you need a gigabit cable to a second gigabit adapter to get a TCP/IP connection between 2 computers.
formerly it has been possible to have TCP/IP connections over firewire, but this has been dropped with OS X 10.6 and windows vista ...
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Thunderbolt combines PCI Express and DisplayPort into a serial data interface that can be carried over longer and less costly cables.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)
whatever adapter you decide to connect at the end of the cable - as long as it supports the PCIe standard and does not require more than 4 lanes.
gigabit, an audio interface, SATA, firewire, USB, HDSP-modem, a flipper ... you name it, you invent it ...
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I'm looking at this too - using a brand new macbook which has no ethernet port - would I be best off attempting to try this by buying a) a tbolt to ethernet adaptor at the macbook end - or b) a pcie card for my Mac pro with thunderbolt on it? - I also wondered if doing this I could get the macbook to see the samples already existing on internal sata drives in my Mac Pro and effectively do no more than use my macbook's processing power to increase the overall power of the system. i can see the odd license issue arising - but i wondered how many people had at least looked at some of these experiments.
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OSX 10.9 supports automatic setup of IP over Thunderbolt. I use it to connect my MacBook Pro Retina and my iMac. I haven't had a chance to try VEP5 over Thunderbolt as yet but I would be surprised if it didn't just work.
If you want more info on IP over Thunderbolt you can check out this article: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9-brings-fast-but-choppy-thunderbolt-networking/.
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I may be way behind here, but for those that just picked up this thread, the Thunderbolt bridge is working for me on a mac book 15 retina running OS 10.9.5 and a macbook air (Slave) running 10.10.2 connected with a thunderbolt cable.
It is worth noting that the VE Pro5 server interface did not automatically see the the macbook air as available. I typed the IP of the MB Air into the Slave Address in VE Pro Server interface and viola, it connected.
