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[Mac Kerr]

I finally got my second monitor. It sure makes it easier to be on PSW at the same time as monitoring the Riedel system with crosspoint view. You have to get your priorities right to stay sane in this business.

Mac

[Chris Hindle]

I finally got my second monitor. It sure makes it easier to be on PSW at the same time as monitoring the Riedel system with crosspoint view. You have to get your priorities right to stay sane in this business.

Mac

You da MAN !

[Pete Erskine]

As we get more signal on networks I think we'll see more bi-directional SFPs in switches to save fiber strands. As 10G switches become more mainstream we will really be able to pile a lot of stuff on the net. Dante uses about 100MB/48ch, Helixnet runs 24ch of comm in 100MB, Riedel Bolero antennas require a 1GB network but I think it's only about 100GB of bandwidth for a good sized system.
Mac

I along with Josh Flower who introduced them to me, have been using the bidirectional SFPs all the time.  For Riedel Nodes the A is in upstream and the B type in Downstream and with the Freespeak Splitters we put the A in the base and B in the splitter.  It is more reliable as well too. 

[Scott Holtzman]

I along with Josh Flower who introduced them to me, have been using the bidirectional SFPs all the time.  For Riedel Nodes the A is in upstream and the B type in Downstream and with the Freespeak Splitters we put the A in the base and B in the splitter.  It is more reliable as well too.

BiDi SFP's are way cool.  I used to think they used some sort of simplex fast switching but they don't.  It's a miniature CDWM (course division wave multiplexer) that encodes on on lambda and decodes on another.

I remember when a four port CWDM box took up 4U's of space. 

[Kevin Maxwell]

Yes, LMG, the sound and video shop in Orlando and Vegas.

Mac

We used to use them for the video end (mostly Projection systems) of some big shows we did at the Disney hotels. They hadn't gotten into audio back then. Les was talking to me about working for him on the audio part. I couldn't talk my wife into moving down to FL.

[Pete Erskine]

BiDi SFP's are way cool.  I used to think they used some sort of simplex fast switching but they don't.  It's a miniature CDWM (course division wave multiplexer) that encodes on on lambda and decodes on another.

I remember when a four port CWDM box took up 4U's of space.

it uses two different wavelengths and comes in 2 versions A-B with corresponding TX-RX swapped at the other end

[Neil White]

I along with Josh Flower who introduced them to me, have been using the bidirectional SFPs all the time.  For Riedel Nodes the A is in upstream and the B type in Downstream and with the Freespeak Splitters we put the A in the base and B in the splitter.  It is more reliable as well too.

Does Freespeak need specific SFP to transport the Antenna signal or does a standard gigabit SFP work?

We too have had good success with BiDi SFP in our Calrec Hydras and Gigabit SFP for general networks. Also been using the Cisco SG300 SFP to create star topology networks over fibre.

[Jeff Baumgartner]

Hey Mac!
Small world and welcome to my world! (NWA is my full time gig)
I was the shaved head guy fixing the installed audio in your room yesterday.
My Q-SYS DSP core took a dump and I had to swap in another but when I did the swap, I switched around a few of the dataport cables by mistake feeding those amps and it threw me for one heck of a loop until I finally realized that's what it was after rebuilding the config from memory.

[Mac Kerr]

Hey Mac!
Small world and welcome to my world! (NWA is my full time gig)
I was the shaved head guy fixing the installed audio in your room yesterday.
My Q-SYS DSP core took a dump and I had to swap in another but when I did the swap, I switched around a few of the dataport cables by mistake feeding those amps and it threw me for one heck of a loop until I finally realized that's what it was after rebuilding the config from memory.

Ha! Funny, it's a small world after all.

Mac

[Kevin Maxwell]

Ha! Funny, it's a small world after all.

Mac

Now that song is going to be stuck in my head for a while.

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