Grass Valley Switcher Products - Manual (Page 129)

Switcher Products — Protocols Manual 129
Section
5
Router Protocol
Introduction
The Kalypso Video Production Center and the Zodiak Digital Production
Switcher can be connected with a Grass Valley Group SMS 7000 routing
system for control of the router. This section gives an overview of this inter-
face. Commands used by this protocol for this purpose will be identified
but not described in detail. A complete description of the protocol and all
the available commands is available in the separate Routing Products Pro-
tocol Manual.
A Kalypso system can interface with a router to accomplish two different
and completely separate functions:
• Router Control, consisting of user initiated Panel, Menu, and R-MEM
control of router source selections for specific router destinations.
• Emergency Bypass option operation which involves source selection
for specific router destinations.
A Zodiak system supports Router Control, as listed above, but does not
support Emergency Bypass.
Native Protocol
Both router features interface to a Grass Valley Group SMS-7000 routing
system using Native Protocol. Native protocol supports Ethernet and serial
physical connections. The Router Control feature employs Ethernet, and
the Emergency Bypass option employs RS-422 serial connections.