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Lyra Letournea [Show Production Specific Networking Equipment] 		beyond:system_and_networks [2023/11/06 23:43] (current)
Lyra Letournea [Why fames get “delayed” and the cause of "Purple FB4"]
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 Cue Frame> Cue effects> Cue Timing> Live FX> Routing> Projection Zone reshape> Projector settings application> Packaging> Delivery Cue Frame> Cue effects> Cue Timing> Live FX> Routing> Projection Zone reshape> Projector settings application> Packaging> Delivery
  
-BEYOND does repeat similar frames, and does some optimization, however when lots of effects, different routings, (or the real challenge), offsetting effects are introduced, this drastically increases the calculation time for output. This leads to your computer not being able to actually calculate every single frame before the cycle time expires and BEYOND needs to start over. This cycle time is important for speed and timing and safety reasons like the previous chapter describes. +BEYOND does repeat similar frames, and does some optimization, however when lots of effects, different routings, (or the real challenge), offsetting effects are introduced, this drastically increases the calculation time for output. This leads cheaper and lower performing computers to not be able to actually calculate every single frame before the cycle time expires and BEYOND needs to start over. This cycle time is important for speed and timing and safety reasons like the previous chapter describes. 
  
 CPU induced delay will often appear in real life in dropout or lag in order of zones. Where the first few lasers in your setup may be running fine but you may not even get any output out of your last few lasers, where it degrades more and more between each end. This is an example of very obvious CPU delay.  CPU induced delay will often appear in real life in dropout or lag in order of zones. Where the first few lasers in your setup may be running fine but you may not even get any output out of your last few lasers, where it degrades more and more between each end. This is an example of very obvious CPU delay. 
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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: 
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 +  - [[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]]
  
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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. 
  
  
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