Installation Of The Ubex Matrix; Hardware Requirements; Ethernet Switch - Detailed Requirements - Lightware UBEX Installation And Network Setup Manual

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3. Installation of the UBEX Matrix

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I nstallation of the UBEX Matrix
This chapter introduces the hardware requirements of the UBEX matrix and lists
the required capabilities of the network switch for the best A/V performance:

Hardware Requirements

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Ethernet Switch - Detailed Requirements

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Connecting Steps
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Installation and Network Setup Guide for UBEX
3.1. Hardware Requirements
The UBEX A/V network has the following hardware requirements.
Devices:
▪ Layer 3 (L3) network switch
– 10 GbE support
– IGMPv2 snooping
– Non-blocking
– VLAN support
– Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
UBEX-MMU-X200 Matrix Management Unit
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▪ UBEX endpoints (transmitters and receivers)
– UBEX-PRO20-HDMI-F100
SFP+ modules:
▪ SFP+ transceiver modules for the endpoints
– 1 (for 10G link) or 2 (for 20G link) modules per endpoint
device
– Singlemode or multimode
– up to 10 GbE support
SFP+ transceiver modules for the L3 switch
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– 2 modules per endpoint device
– Singlemode or multimode
– up to 10 GbE support
▪ Singlemode or multimode fiber optical cables
– OM3 or OM4 is recommended
If the application does not require long cable extension, DAC cables
can be applied instead of the SFP+ modules and optical cables.
DAC cables:
▪ DAC cables
– 2 cables per endpoint device
– up to 10 GbE support
3.2. Ethernet Switch - Detailed Requirements
In the virtual matrix architecture, a third-party switch is used to transfer
IP packets. In connection with this switch, the following criteria must
be met:
10 Gbps non-blocking switch (capable of full bandwidth
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transmission between all ports)
Supports IEEE Std. 802.3ad-2000 Link Aggregation Control
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Protocol, with Link Aggregation Groups for each endpoint.
▪ Supports Internet Group Management Protocol version 2 (RFC
2236) snooping.
IPv4 (or Layer 2) Multicast Forwarding based on IGMP v2
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snooping, with at least 16 addresses available for each endpoint, e.g.
4096 IPv4 multicast addresses for 256 endpoints.
Supports IEEE Std. 802.1Q VLAN tagging: 1 VLAN reserved for
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UBEX control and media transmission, other(s) available for user
traffic.
Optional Requirements:
▪ Supports IEEE Std. 802.1Q (formerly 802.1p) priority code
point (PCP), and implements priority based queuing for at
least 1 prioritized traffic class. This is required to guarantee
uninterrupted media transmission regardless of the user traffic.
Supports Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP), in order to
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discover network topology.
▪ Supports IEEE Std. 802.1s (merged into IEEE Std. 802.1Q-2005)
Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP), in order to detect
switching loops in VLAN's.
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