Grass Valley NewsBrowse Desktop Browsing System Installation v.3.1 - Manual (Page 16)

16 NewsBrowse Installation and Configuration Guide April 27, 2006
Chapter 2 Installing NewsBrowse
Rack-mount hardware components
Follow the instructions you received with the rack-mount hardware to install each
component of the NewsBrowse system. One rack-unit spacing is recommended
between components for ventilation.
About cabling hardware components
Refer to the system design for your particular NewsBrowse system and the
appropriate system diagram in
Chapter 1, System Overview to identify the hardware
components and cabling for your NewsBrowse system. Then turn to the appropriate
cabling instructions and connect cables as required.
Be aware of the following as you cable your system:
• When connecting the network, use 100Tx cabling and switches (or Gigabit uplink
in the case of the NAS). Zoning is not required on the switch if five or less clients
are active. If more than five clients are using the system, it is strongly
recommended that you use an isolated switch or a shared, zoned switch to isolate
the client-side LAN. Network traffic from the NewsBrowse internal LAN is
minimized.
• You may want to postpone cabling to external networks until after configuring
respective IP addresses.
• Single-channel encoders and live monitor encoders require analog video and audio
feeds. Digital to Analog conversion of signals may be required.
• Single-channel encoders require timecode feeds.