AxC-SWD5G User`s manual
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1. 8 Pee clipeum 9 921 SETUP THE SWITCH 9 9 2 2 VLAN SETUP ec Em 9 PASSES Vo nci 10 6 NETWORK ARCHITECTURES 13 7 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS enn 16 8 OPEN SOURCE LICENSES cciscioenunisnu ia eset me cU vio trinh cu 16 AxC SWD5G User s Manual V1 1 1 WELCOME Thank you for purchasing AuviTran s Audio Toolbox AxC SWD5G extension card We hope you will enjoy using it You will find here the necessary instructions to use your product Please read them carefully as misuse of this device might cause serious damage to you and your environment 2 OVERVIEW As all AxC cards within the AuviTran range the AXC SWD5G can equally be used in AVBx3 or AVBx7 ToolBox Using one slot only it provides 8 x RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet Port plus 2 x SFP Small Form Factor Pluggable cages for direct optical fiber connection via optional monomode or multimode SFP also called mini GBIC Gigabit Interface Converter modules Bring optical fiber into your network without additional external switch or media converter The AxC SWD5G card has two configurations unified Ethernet switch featuring 10 Gigabit ports or Two physically independent full speed Ethernet switches each of them offering 5 Gigabit ports for split redundancy network Thanks to AVS Monitor the AxC SWD5G can be fully and remot2. Audio ToolBox AxC SW 05 G Instructions M anua ET EEE AAE yn O m 4 i gt _ e TUN i a T hy S ten Ji E EET 2 p i terr P T i P p 2 for Audio ToolBox Platform Version 1 0 WARNING Always follow the basic precautions listed below to avoid the possibility of serious injury or even death from electrical shock short circuiting damages fire or other hazards These precautions include but are not limited to the following PRECAUTIONS Do not apply excessive pressure on connectors or any other part of the board Do not touch the metallic sharp parts pins of the product This product is electrostatic sensitive make sure you check this before touching or using it The disconnect devices of the Audio ToolBox unit are the appliance inlet of the auxiliary power supply and the appliance inlet on the rear side of the unit These must be easily reachable AxC SWD5G User s Manual V1 1 To prevent electric shock unplug the unit before handling The achievement of other operations not mentioned in this document is prohibited Repairs can be performed only by a technician trained and qualified Each connection must be Safety Extra Low Voltage kind SELV and must stay inside buildings LIMITATION OF LIABILITY In no case and in no way the provider of this Product AuviTran th
3. AVS Monitor Control Panel The above Fig 2 is an example of a running AxC SWD5G as it will appear on the AVS Monitor Control panel For each port this panel allows you to monitor the auto negotiate speed and the attributed VLANs Please refer to the chapter 5 2 2 to learn how to configure a VLAN Next to SFP ports number 5 and 10 the mention N A appears to show that in this configuration no SFP device is connected On the contrary AVS Monitor will display the type of module and link mode as describe below e AxP BD Single fiber bidirectional down monomode SFP mini GBIC transceiver with half LC connector AxP BU Single fiber bidirectional up monomode SFP mini GBIC transceiver with half LC connector AxP SX Double fiber multimode SFP mini GBIC transceiver with LC connector AxP LX Double fiber monomode SFP mini GBIC transceiver with LC connector e Copper Ethernet cabling SFP mini GBIC transceiver with RJ45 connector AxP BD and AxP BU must be coupled as they use different wave lengths for bidirectional transmission reception to work together in a single optical fiber This panel in indicates the switch mode Linked or Split and the Spanning tree algorithm you are using Refer to chapter 5 2 3 to know how to use the STP EE Switch Ports 1 5 Switch Ports 6 10 Fig4 SWD5G AVS Monitor display in Linked mode with RSTP spanning tree set AxC SWD5G User s Manual V1 1 8 5 2 Configur
4. or even data flows on multiple links The frame is tagged to identify a VLAN and each ports of each bridges on the network are configured to route tagging or un tagging the frame in the way to create multiple virtual LAN The VLAN ID 1 is the default VLAN This VLAN is mandatory even if you do not use VLANs capabilities If a port has no VLAN attributed it will be automatically link to the default VLAN AxC SWD5G User s Manual V1 1 9 Click on the ADD line on the table to set a new VLAN Then fill an ID number from 2 to 4096 and select a colour for an easier check up of your setup By validating the SET button you will see your new VLAN appear in the VLAN table Fig 3 where the relation between ports and VLAN is made In this table the lines represents VLANs and columns the ports The default VLAN has the ID 1 and a black colour It cannot be deleted all ports are by default untag member of this VLAN After adding a VLAN in the table you can modify the relation between a port and your VLAN by left clicking in the port column of your choice Ingress egress rule can be added on these ports in the table below with Interport Switch Fig 3 Between two VLAN capable switches use the Interport Switch option to exchange multiple VLAN packets on the same link On the opposite Untag VLAN will be used to send untag frame to end point devices which do not accept VLAN In advanced mode If you are in the advanced setu
5. MSTP versions of the spanning tree This very simple example below will help you to understand the utility of a spanning tree AxC SWO5G AxC SWO5G BAN Gg 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 st m 2 m _ 1 YA mexi i Likes RSTP Bridge 1 RSTP Bridge 2 RSTP Bridge 3 Fig 6 A simple loop network with RSTP In the example Fig 6 the three AxC SWD5G switches are fully configured to use RSTP algorithm Bridge 2 has been chosen as the master switch in the spanning tree This means that every bridge will try to find a path to reach him To avoid producing a loop on the network the spanning tree on bridge 1 closes the port on the link between bridge 1 and 3 AxC SWD5G User s Manual V1 1 10 AxC SWO5G port Gigabit Switch AxC SWD5G E TH port Gigabit Switch 1 3 4 5 3 4 5 Link lost RSTP Bridge 1 RSTP Bridge 2 AxC SWD5G Bie port Gigabit Switch 1 2 3 4 5 Y 3 Lukes Lu RSTP Bridge 3 Fig 7 simple loop network with RSTP As shown in Fig 7 if a link failure appears on the link between Bridge 1 and 2 bridge 1 will open its port on the link with bridge 3 in order to communicate with bridge 2 As a result the network is still fully operational For compatibility with regular switch auto negotiation a link change will take approximately 750ms 151 1 812 8 3 8 4 8 5 3 65 197 AxC SW
6. activity on the selected port This will disable the transmission of spanning tree management frames that may disturb a device that cannot manage them cf EtherSound devices for examples Set X the inter switch connections that use the select STP mode These are the only STP RSTP parameters To finalise a MSTP configuration check that all ID column STP fit your configuration STP ID can take a value from 1 to 63 Two or more VLANs can be attributed to the same STP ID e AMSTP bridge linked with a RSTP one will automatically use RSTP algorithm All MSTP bridges a network must have the same STP attributed to the same VLAN ID e Normalisations use many others parameters they will be accessible upon request contact AuviTran teams Available soon Please refer to the section 6 to find some network architectures examples using RSTP or MSTP AxC SWD5G User s Manual V1 1 12 6 Network architectures The audio ToolBox by AuviTran allows you to exchange your audio data between a various set of protocols The possibilities are huge but in order to help you to wisely setup your perfect sound network this chapter contains few examples of the use of AuviTran hardware Dante Single Loop Fig 9 shows a Dante network built over four AxXC SWD5G Thanks to the RSTP if one fiber link is cut the network remains fully operational From the control room the control link is used to configure all the hardware Dante and control frame
7. D5G Settings General Settings Dual Switch mode Rapid Spanning Tree mode Port Assignments VLAN d STP Id es ERE RSTP OTS MSTP Port Mode Properties Interport Switch Force Untag BPDU Filter L Recall Default Settings Fig 8 AVS Monitor Slot Setup panel MSTP To use the spanning tree ability simply set Rapid Spanning Tree Mode on Then each Interport Switch port will be RSTP active To work correctly inter port switches must be connected to a compatible RSTP device AxC SWD5G User s Manual V1 1 11 In advanced mode To configure an STP RSTP MSTP on your AxC SWD5G device simply set the Spanning Tree Mode on the desired algorithm First version of spanning tree It must be used only in case of backward computability with old switch It involve a Slow detection of disconnection reconnection with up to 10s cut of transmission Rapid Spanning Tree It provides a quick management of redundant link connection disconnection with a delay of a second In a simple case MSTP Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol It provides capabilities to manage different STP for each VLAN enabling to select a better path of links between switches for different VLAN Fig 8 shows that when spanning tree mode is selected the BPDU filter line appears in the bottom of the second table Set the filter X to inhibit any spanning tree
8. RSTP loop umi 0 90 w 5 100 3 xC n 5 jabe Swtrh A M Dente Card s es 2 EL N d A 3 f 1 A w Port 3 a AUDIO TOOLBOX AVBx7 AxC D Done Card t AC OS 3010 Bite Ez Sms eae a Pay Fount Power l s y lt 0 Activity y Erro 2 2 Ig 2 5 le lz head jos e Fig 10 192 channels over Dante The above Fig 10 shows the schematic of a 192ch over Dante network between two ToolBoxes As shown above Fig 7 and 8 a RSTP loop is pictured This time VLANs are used to route all three 64 channels from one AxC DANTE to the other Numbers on links identify VLANS Default VLAN 1 can be used for control frames The 192 channels will use about 600MB of our 1GB throughout AxC SWD5G User s Manual V1 1 14 ogy CONTROL VLAN ab DIRECTIONAL ETHERSOUN D s Fig 11 shows an EtherSound network where VLANs can be used to create a virtual loop To build an EtherSound daisy chain the frames will be routed from OUT ports into IN ports The scheme pictures green links for Ethersound the figures are the VLAN Ids and orange cable is the Control VLAN INTER SWITCH LIN Km Fig 11 Bi directional EtherSound network This setup gives you a smart example of double security in case of links failure First you c
9. an rely on the natural EtherSound capability to detect a link failure and to reorganize a new dasy chain adapt to the new conditions Second the rapid spanning tree which also resists in case a link is lost thus providing maximal security in your network AxC SWD5G User s Manual V1 1 15 7 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS How control the AxC SWD5G switch The AxC SWD5G can be added in any slot of your ToolBox Control of your hardware will be made through AVS Monitor and the connection of AxC ES100 or AxC DANTE to your work station This feature will be soon available from your AxC SWD5G directly How many AxC SWD5G can add in my ToolBox You may fill every slot with AxC SW5G if your network configurations requires so but don t forget that you should save one slot for an AXC ES100 or an AxC DANTE which will give you access to your Toolbox on AVS Monitor How can reset my AxC SWD5G to the factory settings In the panel Control of the AVS Monitor the button RACK SETUP gives you access to the Revert to Factory settings option linked a fiber network but it s doesn t seems to work What could do Fiber links are not automatically crossed uncrossed Please check that every optical fiber is correctly crossed between two switches Also keep in mind that AxP BD and AxP BU must be coupled as they use different wave lengths for bidirectional transmission reception to work together in a single optical fiber Once these adjustments achi
10. ation By a single click on your front panel device picture of the AVS Monitor Control panel the Slot Setup panel will popup r 8 Slot Setup 191 s2 s3 54 s5 56 AxC SWD5G Settings General Settings Dual Switch mode Linked Rapid Spanning Tree mode Advanced Port Assignments vand E EE T AE E T T B E T Port Mode Properties Pi pegs fr Ps X X Interport Switch Recall Default Settings Cancel Save amp Close Fig 5 AVS Monitor Slot Setup panel On this Setup panel Fig 5 all the features of your SWD5G switch can be configured intuitively All modifications on this panel will be applied by the Save amp Close button If you do not wish to save your modifications simply close the popup window or click cancel By selecting and apply Recall Default all parameters of the Slot Setup panel will be set as factory setting 5 2 1 Setup the switch mode These options are described in section 4 1 and 4 2 to select a mode set the matching radius button 5 2 2 VLAN setup VLAN SWD5G cards are implemented accordingly to the normalisation IEEE 802 10 which allows this hardware to be fully compatible with others commercial IEEE 802 Q switches VLANS are used to create Virtual Local Area Networks on a unique architecture This allows for example to split the sound and the commands on different routes
11. d network errors when building a network 4 1 Linked Mode When powered up for the first time your AxC SWD5G card will start in linked mode In this mode all 10 ports are switched together and behave the same way You can see your AxC SWD5G card as a regular 10 ports Giga Ethernet switch The green LED Linked on the front panel indicates that this mode is active fig 1 Please refer to the section 5 2 1 to configure the following modes 4 2 Split Mode AxC SWD5G MX HE SITE S ee ECT 1 2 3 4 5 EM mm af L 7 1 E j 4 i P T nonien 4 m 2 AE ne 1 j if gt A UA EA T In this setup your AXC SWD5G card will behave as two distinct 5 ports switches with the following distribution port 1 to 5 for the first 5 ports switch port 6 to 10 for the second 5 ports switch The red LED Split on the front panel indicates that this mode is active fig 1 Please refer to section 5 2 1 to configure the following modes WARNING In Split mode the spanning tree options is not available WARNING In this mode it is forbidden to cable a link between the two split switches AxC SWD5G User s Manual V1 1 7 5 AXC SWD5G ON AVS MONITOR 5 1 Control Panel View Your SWD5G card is fully functional for the AVS Monitor version 4 0 14 or further This software allows you to monitor and configure your new hardware Switch Ports 1 5 Switch Ports 6 10 Fig 2
12. e distributor or reseller or any other party acting as provider shall be liable and sued to court for damage either direct or indirect caused by and to the user of the board and which would result from an improper installation or misuse of the Product Misuse and improper installation mean installation and use not corresponding to the instructions of this manual Please note that graphics given in this manual drawings and schemes are only examples and shall not be taken for a real vision of your own equipment configuration AuviTran is constantly working on the improvement of the products For that purpose the products functionalities are bound to change and be upgraded without notice Please read carefully the User s manual as the new functionalities will be described therein TRADEMARKS All trademarks listed in this manual are the exclusive property of their respective owners They are respected as is by AuviTran Any use of these trademarks must receive prior approval of their respective owners For any question please contact the trademark s owner directly COPYRIGHT The information in this manual is protected by copyright Therefore reproduction distribution of whole or part of this manual is strictly forbidden without the prior written agreement of AuviTran Our product use open source software MSTPd and LWIP respectively under GNU Lesser Public License and BSD license With respect to the free open source s
13. ely managed using either IP Dante or EtherSound networks AVS Monitor will also provide statistics on any port an easy way to dynamically check and analyse in real time the capability of the links VLAN can be configured on any port to use multi protocol DANTE ES100 COBRANET DMX Ethernet over a same optical fiber at same time on the AxC SWD5G Use the user friendly spanning tree between two AxC SWD5G switches to prevent a link failure in your loop AxC SWD5G User s Manual V1 1 5 3 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS AxC Switch Switch card for the AuviTran Audio ToolBox platform 200 mm x 100 mm x 40 mm Format AuviTran Audio ToolBox platform cards 12V 3 3V Through AuviTran Audio ToolBox backplane 5 C to 70 0 to 95 non condensing 0 C to 40 C 5 to 90 non condensing 8 x RJ45 connectors 2x SFP GBIC connectors Dual Core ARM processor 204 MHz 192KB SRAM 4MB flash 8MB SDRAM 2 x 128KB Packet Buffer size with a data bus of 256 bits wide Auto Neg or forced at 1Gigabit s 100 Mbit s 10 Mbit s Full Half duplex mode Automatically adjusts for straight through or crossover cables on all RJ45 ports Up to 32 independent configurable 802 1Q VLAN STP RSTP 802 1W 2001 and MSTP 802 1Q 2005 1000 MB latency lt 2 9 us 64 byte packets 100 Mb Latency lt 4 9 us 64 byte packets MAC address table size of 2 x 8192 entries AVB Ready _ Supports 802 1 Audio Video Bridging AVB Sta
14. eved if your system is still non operational please contact AuviTran team Why do get some trouble to connect my Dante network with commercial switches The Green Ethernet capability of your switches must be deactivated to be fully compatible with the Dante protocol We look forward to and value our customers feedback Please share your most inventive network configurations 8 OPEN SOURCE LICENSES LWIP This includes un modified version of LWIP v1 4 1 The original files can be downloaded at http savannah nongnu org projects lwi Copyright c 2001 2004 Swedish Institute of Computer Science All rights reserved MSTPd The original files can be downloaded at http sourceforge net projects mstpd AxC SWD5G User s Manual V1 1 16
15. ndards 802 1AS Precise Timing Protocols 802 1Qat Stream Reservation Protocol 802 1Qav Egress Pacing and Jitter Tolerance AxC SWD5G can be inserted in any slot of any AuviTran Audio ToolBox platform AVS Monitor enables to remotely set control and monitor a Dante or an EtherSound network and provides enhanced control pages to manage the AxC SWD5G card specific parameters Windows 8 7 Vista XP for 32 or 64 bit versions AxC SWD5G User s Manual V1 1 4 FRONT PANEL WIRING AxC SWD5G Rem 1 2 3 4 5 n M 2 t D J 7 x 4 ii N J i i 1 E ace le M I m am E i rye EE el 4 M Fig1 AxC SWD5G front panel AxC SWD5G card provides 8x RJ45 Giga Ethernet ports and 2x SFP Small Form Factor Pluggable Giga Ethernet ports to allow various architecture possibilities The SFP cages also called mini GBIC Gigabit Interface Converter modules allow you to add optical fiber into your network Those modules are available in many formats e Multimode Fiber Gigabit SFP transceiver e Monomode Fiber Gigabit SFP transceiver e Single Fiber Bi Directional Gigabit SFP Transceiver Copper Ethernet Cabling Gigabit SFP transceiver Few modes with their own restrictions are available on your AXC SWD5G device Please read carefully the following lines to avoid any mistakes an
16. oftware listed in this document if you have any questions or wish to receive a copy of the source code to which you are entitled under the applicable free open source license s please contact us at http www auvitran com w2 index php contact contact form sendto info amp title General 20Information Full licences and open sources project home addresses are available at the end of this document AUVITRAN WEBSITE MORE INFORMATION Please visit our website for any question of further inquiry concerning our product range Updates will also be posted when available http www auvitran com PACKAGE CONTAINS e 1 AxC SWDB5G card Thumbscrews AxC SWD5G User s Manual V1 1 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS aee 2 LIMITATION OF CIA BIEI 3 TRADEMARK M 3 19 INI GHA TUE 3 AUVITRAN WEBSITE MORE INFORMATION enn 3 PACKAGE CONTAINS Mn S 3 1 WELCOMED usc NEL 5 2 OVERVIEW rer 9 3 TECHNICAL Contacta c Satu Cu 6 4 FRONT PANEL WIRING 7 EINRED MODE mapu 7 PME ABI 7 5 AXC SWD5G ON AVS MONITOR eere 8 CONTROL PANEL VIEW
17. p Force Untag will be also available The setup mode allows you to Tag none Interport Switch port s VLAN Ingress egress rules e U Untag Accept ingress untagged and tagged frame of this ID then distribute egress them untagged Untag rule is mainly used when a port is connected to a terminal device such as an AxC ES100 EtherSound Card frames will be untagged before reaching the device e T Tag Accept tagged frame of this ID then distribute them tagged This option is be used on bridge interlinks each frame will keep their tags so the switch will be able to distribute them on the relevant ports Force Untag Distribute all frame untagged override T distribute rule Interport Switch Ignore untagged frame To avoid untagged frame on a bridge interlink Delete a VLAN by clicking its line and on its ID column then clicking the delete button Fig 3 Please refer to the section 6 to find some network architectures examples 5 2 3 Spanning tree The spanning tree algorithm in AxC SWD5G is compliant with its description in the documentations IEEE 802 1W 2001 for the STP RSTP and 802 1Q 2005 for the MSTP The spanning tree allows you to create loops between bridges without causing any redundancy traffic and creating a backup route in case of a link failure STP is the first normalisation and because of the very long recovery time on a link change gt 30 seconds it is strongly recommended to use the RSTP or the
18. s are dispatched through the fiber links VLAN features of the SWD5G will be useful in this situation By tagging the control and Dante frames on a different VLAN the switches will be able to route those two types of frames separately In the rack cabinet the AxC SWD5G switch is also used to connect other hardware to the network without adding any switch To secure the voltage transformer of the AxC SWD5G and the whole ToolBox an auxiliary power supply is also available ask our sales team MIXER Digico Protools Soundcraft AuviTran 7 4 auxiliary power supply Bridge Dante DX8l in a Rack Fig 9 A Dante single loop AxC SWD5G User s Manual V1 1 13 192ch over Ethernet Soundcraft M7CL48 ES mixer 64ch Digico mixer 64ch LAxC MAD LAxC MAD pr SDente Card 2 9 9 s IOI 10 Oe in he Che in Qe s AUDIO TOOLBOX AVBx7 Axl SWODS5G BU an a s 4 D Ja an da X M Becondany Pert 4 jabe Swtrh A dente Card AxC DANTE Mette a 3 TAS Event Power LP lt L2 LP d f P f Activity Error v v Icorols la lo 6 7 a a Ready Main So 1 r wae f Aux s s J o SM Cap AuviTran ime 79 Avt 3 Pec 4 D D Port 3 Pert 4 4 192ch over Dante In a
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