Hi.
Bit of an unusual question. At our venue, we have the Lighting network and the house Automation network running in the same subnet over the same switches.
Since our integrator has the last word on switch configuration and IPs/Subnets, we are currently thinking about splitting the two networks physically so we can have our own switches. The problem with this is, that we lose control of the house lights and power relays from the Lighting desk, which is unacceptable.
I was thinking about Air gaping both networks and then just "routing" sACN traffic across the two networks. Here's my idea
1 Gateway configured as an output on the lighting network. 1 Gateway configured as input on the House network. Both gateways are connected via DMX cables. This way, you should be able to route 4 universes across the two networks while never merging subnets.
I was wondering if there is a product that imitates this kind of behaviour across all universes without the need to output to physical DMX. Or maybe theres a smarter option to do this inside a switch with VLAN routing.
Let me know what you think.
Thanks.