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Grass Valley Kaleido-X (7RU) v.7.70 User Manual

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Kaleido-X (14RU) Expansion

Configuring Router Card Expansion

To configure internal router card expansion

1 Open XEdit and load the database associated with the Kaleido-X expansion system you

wish to configure.

2 In the System list, review the state of the OPTION slots in each frame, to verify that it

matches the configuration of your actual system, and add or remove router cards as
needed (refer to Managing Cards in a Kaleido-X, or Kaleido-MX System Representation, in
the Kaleido-X User’s Manual).

3 Click the Router configurations tab, navigate to the KX Router logical router, and then

click its first level.

XEdit automatically created one physical router for every router card. In a factory-
default configuration, the KX Router logical router also includes all corresponding
physical levels in its first logical level.

4 If your router cards are not all listed in the Physical level (for example, this would be the

case if you just added router cards to your system), then you must add the missing
physical levels to your KX Router configuration (refer to Configuring the Internal Router
in a Kaleido-X (7RU),
in the Kaleido-X User’s Manual, for details).

Once you have all router cards from both Kaleido-X frames covered within the
KX Router configuration, some sources still cannot be routed to some destinations,
creating holes in the router matrix. This is because the sources of one frame do not