Category: Network
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SAP Announcer Manual
As SAP is a legacy protocol, many modern encoders do not generate the announcements that Exterity set top boxes require to learn channels. To get around this CT have produced a configurable SAP announcer software.
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Panasonic Kairos
Training Materials Kairos Training Presentation Kairos Training Activities Kairos Training Routine Many of the topics covered during training sessions can also be found in video format, useful for a refresher or if you need to refer back at a later date! Kairos Tutorial Videos
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Kairos Training Rack – IP Map
Management (Untagged) – Kairos Core – 10.10.10.10 Mellanox Switch Mgmt – 10.10.10.51 Hyperdeck – 10.10.10.50 Kairos Creator PC (Trainer) – 10.10.10.237 Kairos Creator PC (Student 1) – 10.10.10.238 Kairos Creator PC (Student 2) – 10.10.10.239 Media VLAN 20 – Kairos Core – 10.10.20.10 Embrionix Decap – 10.10.20.2 Embrionix Encap 1 – 10.10.20.3 Embrionix Encap 2…
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Uninstalling Nvidia Cumulus from Mellanox SN2010 (and installing Mellanox Onyx OS)
Uninstalling Nvidia Cumulus from a Mellanox SN2010 switch and rolling back to Onyx OS By default, our Mellanox SN2010 switches will be running the Nvidia Cumulus operating system to allow for better future proofing, however, there may be a necessity to roll the switches operating system back to Mellanox Onyx which has a much more…
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Configuring Mellanox SN2010 for SMPTE 2110
Configuring the Mellanox SN2010 for SMPTE 2110 – A basic configuration The below is a basic configuration to enable SMPTE 2110 multicast traffic on a Mellanox SN2010. ‘Switchports’ which may have devices connected that will send or receive SMPTE 2110 traffic, including Embrionix modules, Panasonic Kairos etc will be placed into a single VLAN (VLAN…
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Makito X Encoders/Decoders MultiSync buffering to Sync 2 SRT Channels Together
The Makito X multi-channel synchronization feature is designed to work in the broadcast industry where remote producers typically capture multiple views of the same content and transport it over a network to a central production facility. All these channels need to be synchronized to within one frame period at the decoders, so that downstream equipment…
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IPTV and Iris Support Information
Please follow the links and instructions on this page for information relating tot he standard CT deployments of IPTV on the golf.
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Best Practices for Streaming to Wowza
Wowza provide information on their best practices from using their streaming service, which is available here
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How to change Public to Private Network profile in Windows 10
On occasion when dealing with media servers and networking you need to change Windows network profile from Public to Private, here it is couple of ways how to do it.
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Setting Up Failover WAN ports of a Cisco Router
If your venue provides a main and backup internet connection with different subnets on each line, it is going to be useful to have the Cisco 4431 or 2921 routers fail over between the two connections if one link goes down.
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Dodgy Network Emulator
Sometimes it useful to be able to simulate a wonky network… I found a pretty useful piece of software that goes by the catchy title of WANulator, early testing looks promising, and can be booted up from a USB in a liveCD environment on any i386 based PC and supports multiple ethernet ports. Check it…
