Design considerations, Stand-alone cr6400 routers, Stand-alone cr6400 networks – Grass Valley CR6400 Family v.1.2 User Manual
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Installation
Design Considerations
Design Considerations
By the time you are ready to install your equipment and software, you (or someone in your orga-
nization) will have already made most of the system design decisions. In fact, the design
decisions will have been made before the equipment is ordered. The following is a review of the
concepts.
Stand-Alone CR6400 Routers
A single CR6400 router operates in stand-alone mode with an attached (or “captive”) control
panel. A single stand-alone router will work reliably and operation is extremely simple.
The single CR6400 can switch signals according to the type of I/O cards installed in the 4 slots at
the rear of the router. The CR6464-3Gig switches video; the CR6464-AES switches audio.
Stand-Alone CR6400 Networks
A stand-alone network includes 1–4 routers and one CP6464, mounted on one of the routers.
Additional CP6464s could be mounted on the other routers, but they would provide little or
no additional capability.
Each router in the network is considered a level. The levels are numbered and the level numbers
range from 1 to 4. The routers can be switched either independently or simultaneously for
multi-level takes.
The term level, in a stand-alone network, means little more than a router number.
CRSC Networks
A CRSC network includes a number of CR Series routers and panels of any type, all of which have
been configured in CRSC.
(It is actually remote panel modules that are configured, not the panels themselves.)
See
on page 25 and Chapter 6,
In CRSC, nearly every button of a control panel can be configured. Panels do not exhibit or rely
on factory default behavior. (Salvo buttons are also available.)
Under CRSC, a level is a router partition. Up to 8 levels can be defined in a CRSC network.
Under CRSC, the mapping of inputs and outputs to sources and destinations is completely
configurable.
(In a CRSC network, only panels mounted on remote panel modules are configurable. Panels
mounted on routers — “captive” panels — function in default mode and have limited use.)
NV9000 Networks
CR Series routers and panels can also be deployed in an NV9000 network. CR Series remote
panel modules must be set up (in CRSC) to function in NV9000 networks.
A remote panel module must be given a panel ID and configured in NV9000-SE Utilities.
NV9000-SE Utilities is the configuration software for NV9000 router control systems.
NV9000-SE Utilities communicates with routers using specific router protocols. For CR Series
routers, the protocol to use is ‘NV Compact Router Ethernet’.