Audio bridge is applicable in stadiums, cruise ships, multi-purpose facilities, auditoriums, large-scale paging systems, schools, courts of law, university campus buildings, theme parks, performing arts centers and distance learning. It digitizes line-level inputs and uploads audio data onto the Cobranet Ethernet network. Each channel has software controlled, continuously variable analog input gain in 1/2dB steps. Up to 30dB of input padding is available for each channel.