Yes, you need Dante for this. And, I think the Dante backorder situation is better now. At least we got our card several months ago, after waiting over a year.
I can imagine a product that would allow GigaACE to go into a computer. GigaACE’s physical connection is standard gigabit ethernet, and the audio transport is standard ethernet packets (though as I understand it, GigaACE uses layer two packets for the audio data, not TCPIP or UDP). The big problem is that GigaACE was designed as a point-to-point interface, and uses practically all the available bandwidth of a gigabit connection. That means a computer would require a dedicated ethernet interface just for GigaACE. Possibly it would even need a proprietary implementation similar to the PCI Dante interfaces. So those are at least some of the reasons such an interface does not exist.
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