Grass Valley CRSC v.3.2 - Manual (Page 13)

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Introduction
Chapter 1 provides concepts and definitions that are needed to understand CRSC — the
Compact Router System Configurator.
Please refer to the CR Series Compact Router User’s Guide and to the CR6400 Family User’s Guide for
complete detail about CR Series routers and panels.
Topics
Hardware Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
CRSC Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Usage Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Setting Up Your Configuration PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Installing CRSC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Hardware Summary
The CR Series products include compact routers, (compact) control panels, and (compact)
remote panel modules.
CR Series products include 1RU and 2RU video and audio routers in several formats, and
machine control routers.
There are 3Gig, HD, and SD versions of the video routers. The HD routers also support SD. The
3Gig routers also support HD and SD. The CR Series also includes analog video routers, AES and
analog audio routers, and machine control routers.
The CR Series routers and panels can be deployed in several different ways and in differ kinds of
networks. For information, see
Usage , following.
The matrices in the 1RU routers range from 16×2 to 16×16. The matrices in the 2RU routers
ranges from 32×4 to 32×32. The newer CR6400 routers (also 2RU) provide 64×64 switching
matrices. Video, audio, and machine control routers can be combined in a system to represent
multiple signal levels.
Control panels in the CR Series are designed to mount on the front of either compact routers or
remote panel modules. Remote panel modules are used in CRSC networks. They transmit
commands from the panels mounted on them to the routers in the network and receive status
messages from the routers in the network.
Control panels that mount directly on compact routers are termed “captive panels.”
Control panels that mount on remote panel modules are termed “remote panels.”
The CR Series includes CQX (“clean and quiet”) routers that support several smooth transition
types (including cross-fades) and rates.