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Theme fund: NGI0 Commons Fund
Start: 2025-10

Open source MILAN hardware and software stack

Reliable real-time media streaming over ethernet networks

The open-source MILAN project implements a MILAN audio interface (a.k.a. a “sound card”) and companion software stack. MILAN is a standard for transporting precisely timed digital audio in real time and with extremely low latency over Ethernet. By delivering an open hardware circuit board with analogue audio I/O and an Ethernet port, together with the free and open source software required to operate the board as a MILAN endpoint, this project democratises audio networking and enables makers and musician communities to come up with new applications for reliable, real-time, high-fidelity audio networking.

Run by Green Light Audio

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This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).