WaveWare Adaptive AlphaNet - Manual (Page 17)

Step-by-step tutorial in setting up connection devices, sites, and groups
2 — Installing AlphaNET™ 3.0 software and setting up sites 17
Step-by-step tutorial in setting up connection devices, sites, and groups
What are sites and groups?
Sites and groups are terms used by AlphaNET
™
3.0 software to
describe how messages are sent to signs. You create sites and groups to
make sending messages to multiple signs flexible and easy.
A site in AlphaNET
™
3.0 software is a collection of one or more
signs, and a group is made up of one or more sites.
To help you better understand, a tutorial is presented below. In this
tutorial, a complex example is created in a series of easy-to-understand
steps.
Overview of the tutorial
In this tutorial, we’ll set up sites and groups for an imaginary
company pictured below. The table shows how signs are assigned in this
company:
Table 1: Overview of the tutorial company
Group Site # signs 1 Connection Device
Production
Manufacturing 2 • local
Shipping 1 • wireless
Engineering 3 • local
Administration
Sales 2 • LAN
Lobby 2 • local
R & D 2 • modem
1
A sign is connected to a PC running AlphaNET
™
3.0 software by a direct cable (local)
connection, by a modem (remote) connection, or by a wireless transmitter.