Sierra Video View MADI-XX - Manual (Page 14)

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Alarm indicators
Flashing mini-alarms can be assigned to the bargraphs for under-level, over-level, anti-phase and
no-carrier (AES only).
The colors used are as follows:
・ Audio Loss: Yellow – position (left or right) indicates channel
・ Audio Over: Red – position (left or right) indicates channel
・ Anti-Phase: Cyan – middle alarm
・ Carrier Loss: White – middle alarm
If carrier loss occurs only that alarm will flash, unless audio loss had already been active for
the same channel.
Note: There are also mini-phase bars which can be turned on for each bar. The colors for in-phase and
out-of-phase are customizable.
Network requirements
There are many ways networks can be configured and a hard and fast rule is hard to make as
both latency and bandwidth will affect operation. Bandwidth requirements can be calculated from
are the sum of the alarm and level data together with any streamed audio monitoring feeds.
A MADI-xx frame being monitored by SOFT-xx will require up to 455kbps at startup assuming
one monitoring application and no streamed audio. Further monitoring applications will require up
to 370kbps each.
Streamed audio bandwidth is dependent on monitoring audio quality and the number of stereo
pairs being monitored. Full bandwidth quality requires 1.6Mbps for each stereo pair so the
maximum bandwidth needed for four stereo pairs would be 6.4 Mbps. This figure must be added
to the bandwidth needed for all of the Monitoring applications expected to be active at one time.
The next section discusses bandwidth requirements in more detail:
Level and alarm streams
Level and alarm streams use unicasting for every monitoring session invoked.
When the SOFT-xx starts it will establish one stream for a connected MADI-xx frame at
455kbps, which is the sum of the two streams. The alarm only stream is used for logging in the
configuration application (CONFIG-xx) and the other stream is used for a single monitoring
application (DISPLAY-xx). Each monitoring station requires a stream at 370kbps for level and
alarm data.