NV8500 series routers offer a highly flexible switching architecture. A single router can switch both audio and video signals. NV8500 series routers receive and send audio and video signals on a single I/O card. The hybrid architecture of the NV8500 routers can disembed audio from its video inputs, recombine audio from multiple inputs, and re-embed audio at its video outputs. The NV8500 series routers can also switch MADI channels and embed the channels in video outputs.