Looking to use M-series switches for Dante audio and NDI video. Anything I should worry about?

Hi muzicman82 

Thank you so much for your message. You're all set!

The M4300 series has been greatly enhanced and now fully approved for Dante Audio (mDNS management, DSCP trust and priorities, etc.). For your main switch, please just follow the configuration here and make sure you are using the latest firmware:

https://kb.netgear.com/000060205/M4300-Configuration-Guide-for-Dante-Audio-Devices

Latest firmware: https://www.netgear.com/support/product/m4300.aspx#download

Your setup looks fine, NDI is heavy mDNS traffic and M4300 is also certified there. VLAN 1 is optimized for NDI already with NETGEAR IGMP Plus enabled with default configuration, if you are using a different VLAN please just enable IGMP Plus on that other VLAN as well.

Please let us know of any questions, there is a great team of Pro AV professionals at NETGEAR for all network design and network configuration questions on M series, they can reached at ProAV.Design@netgear.com anytime. 

Last for your M4100, yes that will work with Dante Audio, please make sure you follow the M4300 configuration guide and replicate the DCSP Trust and the DSCP priorities the same. As long as you don't overscribe the 1G uplink to the M4300 that should be fine. There is no specific Bonjour enablement on M4100, but default IGMP settings (same as M4300) should work. Please let us know if any issue there as well.

I hope this helps,

Regards