Recommended Network Architectures; Peer-To-Peer Network Architecture - Basler Pioneer User Manual

Network Recommendations

4.2 Recommended Network Architectures

4.2.1

Peer-to-peer Network Architecture

A strongly recommended network architecture is direct peer-to-peer connection between your
cameras and your host PC. As shown in Figure 15, the cameras can be connected to individual
gigabit network adapters in the host PC or to a multiport adapter in the PC.
PC
1 Port 1 Port
Gig-E Gig-E
Adapter Adapter
Gig-E Gig-E
Camera Camera
Fig. 15: Peer-to-peer Connections
The main advantage of the direct peer-to-peer architecture is that each camera has an individual
connection to the host PC and thus each camera has the full connection bandwidth available for
transmitting acquired images. This means that you can operate each camera at its full acquisition
rate and not worry about sharing available network bandwidth between cameras.
The disadvantage of the peer-to-peer configuration is that it limits the number of cameras that can
be connected to a single PC.
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PC
1 Port
Gig-E
Adapter
Gig-E
Gig-E
Camera
Camera
Multiport
Gig-E
Adapter
Gig-E Gig-E
Camera Camera
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