Air gaping sACN Networks

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. 

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  • the reason i like the "low-tech" solution of having two gateways connected by DMX is that it's very simple. from a configuration standpoint, from a reliability standpoint, from diagnostic standpoint and last but not least it's simple to understand for external people having to learn, modify or extend the system.

    provided all you need is quite a small number of universes since this solution doesn't really scale well.

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  • the reason i like the "low-tech" solution of having two gateways connected by DMX is that it's very simple. from a configuration standpoint, from a reliability standpoint, from diagnostic standpoint and last but not least it's simple to understand for external people having to learn, modify or extend the system.

    provided all you need is quite a small number of universes since this solution doesn't really scale well.

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