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beyond:system_and_networks [2023/10/26 23:10]
Lyra Letournea [Appendix Situations:] 		beyond:system_and_networks [2023/11/06 04:28]
Lyra Letournea [Just tell me what to buy!]
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 Sometimes, you may need to do driver-based adjustments, including disabling “Jumbo Frames”, “Energy Efficient Ethernet” and other driver level features. Found in this chain: Sometimes, you may need to do driver-based adjustments, including disabling “Jumbo Frames”, “Energy Efficient Ethernet” and other driver level features. Found in this chain:
  
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 If you don’t want to break the bank, your best choice is to grab high performance unmanaged networking equipment, unfortunately these are few and far between as generally those who need high performance, like to play around and create unique settings, but for most show production technicians, they just want to plug it in and for it to work. It can be tempting to purchase low grade and consumer level networking gear for home networks like cheaper TP-Link, or Netgear for example. Especially because “FB4 only has 100mbps on it anyway!!”. but instead, you should purchase something like [[https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/business-110-series-unmanaged-switches/index.html|Cisco’s small business unmanaged series]].  If you don’t want to break the bank, your best choice is to grab high performance unmanaged networking equipment, unfortunately these are few and far between as generally those who need high performance, like to play around and create unique settings, but for most show production technicians, they just want to plug it in and for it to work. It can be tempting to purchase low grade and consumer level networking gear for home networks like cheaper TP-Link, or Netgear for example. Especially because “FB4 only has 100mbps on it anyway!!”. but instead, you should purchase something like [[https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/business-110-series-unmanaged-switches/index.html|Cisco’s small business unmanaged series]]. 
  
-These devices are not that much higher price, but have the CPU built in to handle the amount of data, and low latency requirements of our industry. You can find similar products from other industry brands like Mikrotik, Netgear, TP-link, Zyxel and more. +These devices are not that much higher price, but have the CPU built in to handle the amount of data, and low latency requirements of our industry. You can find similar products from other industry brands like: 
 + 
 +  - [[https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/switches/business-110-series-unmanaged-switches/index.html|Cisco]] (Our Favorite) 
 +  - [[https://www.netgear.com/business/wired/switches/unmanaged/gs110mx/|Netgear]] 
 +  - [[https://store.zyxel.com/xgs1010-12-zz0101f.html|Zyxel]] 
 +  - [[https://www.tp-link.com/us/business-networking/unmanaged-switch/|TP-Link]]
  
 ==== Show Production Specific Networking Equipment ==== ==== Show Production Specific Networking Equipment ====
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 If you have more money to spend, and are looking to do some V-Lans, and make things a bit easier for yourself, then there are several companies who build and sell switches designed to do this. Some of the more popular ones are: If you have more money to spend, and are looking to do some V-Lans, and make things a bit easier for yourself, then there are several companies who build and sell switches designed to do this. Some of the more popular ones are:
  
-   - Luminex +   - [[https://www.luminex.be/|Luminex]] 
-   - ProPlex +   - [[https://www.proplex.com/gbs-network-switches|ProPlex]] 
-   - Swisson +   - [[https://www.swisson.com/en/products/data-distribution/|Swisson]] 
-   - Pathport+   - [[https://pathway.acuitybrands.com/|Pathway]]
    
 Their products aren’t cheap but do provide enterprise quality networking equipment while making it plug and play and easy for most show production professionals to set up and use quickly and easily. They also usually include pre-sets for common industry protocols to ensure the data is most efficiently transmitted.  Their products aren’t cheap but do provide enterprise quality networking equipment while making it plug and play and easy for most show production professionals to set up and use quickly and easily. They also usually include pre-sets for common industry protocols to ensure the data is most efficiently transmitted. 
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-LINK+Okay, I'll admit, we haven't done this yet, a link will magically appear at some point in the future when this gets setup. 
  
  
beyond/system_and_networks.txt · Last modified: 2023/11/06 23:43 by Lyra Letournea

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