Before You Begin; Installing The Media Server - Avid Technology Media Server Setup Manual

Chapter 1 Installing the Media Server Hardware

Before You Begin

Keep the shipping
boxes that come with
your Windows client.
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repackage and ship the
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Installing the Media Server

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Before you begin to install the Media Server, do the following:
• Unpack the Media Server kit.
• Check the contents of the Media Server kit against the packing sticker
on the outside of the shipping box to confirm you have received all the
components.
After you unpack your Media Server kit, make sure the kit contains:
• One Media Server with a 2-Gb optical Fibre Channel adapter board
and a Gigabit Ethernet adapter board
• One of the following:
- One optical SFP (small form-factor pluggable) connector
- One optical GBIC (gigabit interface converter) connector
• One Media Server software kit containing:
- The Avid Unity MediaNetwork Media Server Setup Guide
- The MediaNetwork Windows Fibre Channel Client Quick Start
Card
- The Avid Unity MediaNetwork software CD-ROM
Avid does not supply an optical cable with the Media Server client kit. You
must supply the cable separately.
The Media Server allows you to stream media files to your in-house
network or to the Internet. It receives requests to stream the files and works
with the File Manager to locate the files on the MediaNetwork storage.
Media Servers ship with Fibre Channel adapter boards and gigabit Ethernet
network boards already installed. They also have autosensing power
supplies that set the voltage correctly for either 120 volts or 240 volts.