Extron Electronics VN-MATRIX User Guide - Manual (Page 18)

Section 1: Introduction VN-MATRIX User Guide
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Unicast TCP
This method transports data using standard TCP (Transport Control Protocol) and should only ever be
used for single point-to-point transfer of data.
TCP is a connection-based protocol and, therefore, data is guaranteed to be delivered. However, in
the event of excessive network traffic, delivery may be delayed which will impact on real-time
performance.
The decoder defines which source to ‘connect to’. Other than defining an IP Address and source type
(if required) no special source encoder setup required.
NOTE: Multiple decoder connections are theoretically possible using this method but NOT
recommended. Each additional connection will create extra loading on the encoder CPU which will
ultimately result in poor display performance. In addition, multiple TCP streams carrying the same
source data is an inefficient use of network bandwidth.