RH Consulting has released the 2025 of its Networked AV Report. The report provides a detailed analysis of the adoption of AV networking protocols into manufacturer products, built upon 13 years of audio research and four years of video data.

It was made by leading audio consultants and engineers at RHC, and the report contains an analysis of 6,942 networked AV products across 676 brands.

RHC audio consultant Roland Hemming says one of the key findings from the 2025 report is that audio networking adoption for professional audio products is “complete”.

“There is a massive choice of networked audio products available in all categories, and in our opinion, the next increase we can expect to see in the coming years is the adoption of the technology in sectors such as musical instruments, commercial integration and unified communications,” he says.

Dante is the current market leader by a large margin, having been adopted by more products in the past year than all other protocols combined. Following in second place is RAVENNA.

Despite entering an era of ‘mass adoption’, the report outlines that it has taken 28 years to reach this milestone.

“Products are generally becoming more flexible and fewer variants are needed to deal with interfacing with other types of connection, partly a response to the recent supply chain crisis,” Roland says.

“With fewer analogue products on the market, we expect to see the adoption rates level out.”

On the other hand is the adoption of video-over-IP, which the report finds that NDI still leads the way in teams of product numbers, but Dante AV has seen the highest percentage growth with ST 2110 leading closely behind.

Roland says that video remains somewhat of a “wild west”.

“We can draw no sensible conclusions about what’s happening, as whilst NDI, ST 2110 and Dante AV show significant product number growth, there are different versions within each protocol and SDVoE products don’t all work together either,” he says.

“From an interoperability point of view, the product numbers are misleading and some major players in the market have not yet adopted any of the video-over-IP standards. Therefore, we can say that we’re still at the integrated phase of adoption.”

The annual RHC Networked AV Report can be downloaded for free from the RHC website.