Miranda CR Series Quick Start Manual

Product Summary
You will have received one or more routers, control panels,
remote panel modules, power supplies, and a CD that
includes documentation and software. See Figure 1.
The CR Series Compact Router family includes 1RU and 2RU
routers, control panels, and remote panel modules.
The product family includes HD, SD, "3Gig," and analog
video routers. It includes AES and analog audio routers and
machine control routers (a.k.a. port routers).
The 1RU control panels and routers include several formats:
16×16, 16×4, 16×2, and 32×1. The 2RU control panels and
routers include 2 format: 32×32, and 32×4.
The product names indicates their size and type. For example,
CR3204-AES indicates a Compact Router having 32 AES
inputs and 4 AES outputs.
Similarly, a CP1602 is a Control Panel that lets you switch 16
sources to 2 destinations (by default).
"RP" means Remote Panel module.
A CR16-PR is a 16-port Port Router (machine control router).
See Product Set, on page 8, for a complete list.
The 16×16 routers can switch any of 16 inputs to any of 16
outputs and the 32×32 routers can switch any of 32 inputs to
any of 32 outputs. The 16×4 router switches 16 inputs to 4
outputs. The 32×4 routers switch 32 inputs to 4 outputs. All
the router matrices are fully non-blocking.
The machine control routers are bidirectional, point-to-point
routers, transmitting serial data under RS-422, up to 1 Mb/s.
All other compact routers are unidirectional, X/Y routers.
A CR Series control panel can be mounted on the front of a
router or a remote panel module and provides direct visual
and tactile control of the router. However, any of the routers
can also operate without a control panel under control of an
automation system.
The CR Series routers can be connected on an Ethernet net-
work or used with the NV9000 Router Control System.
A CR Series "remote panel module" is a device that sends
commands to a network of routers and monitors the status of
the routers. A remote panel module supports a control panel.
The panel is then called "remote" because it can be located at
a distance from the routers.
A network also allows "local" or "captive" control panels.
Captive control panels are those that mount on a router.
The CR Series also includes configuration software that
allows you to make the most of your compact router system,
and button legend templates in several formats.
Product Number: QG0003-06 Revision: 1.5; Date: 27 Mar 09
QuickStart Guide
CR Series Compact Router
and Accessories
Figure 1. Package Contents
Power suppl(ies)
1 power cord retention strap
for each power supply
Routers
All CR Series routers except machine control routers have
connectors for bi-level or tri-level video reference (sync) sig-
nal and will switch according to SMPTE RP168-2002.
We recommend using a video reference. The video reference
is loop-through: you can pass the video reference on to other
routers or terminate the reference at any point.
Each router has two power inputs for redundancy, a ground-
ing lug, an RS-485/422 automation port, and an Ethernet
port.
In addition, each analog audio router has DB25 connectors for
I/O. See Figure 5. Each machine control router has RJ-45 con-
nectors for I/O. See Figure 6. All other routers have two 75Ω
BNC connectors for I/O. See Figure 4.
Each router saves its current state (crosspoint connections,
locks, etc.) in non-volatile memory.
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Quick-Start Guide
(this document)
1 software and
documentation
disk
Router(s)
1RU
2RU
Control Panel(s)
1RU
2RU
Remote Panel
Module(s) 1RU
2RU
1