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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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    I mean it may be overkill, but you can look at the luminex Lumicore range - its designed to link Guest networks into house networks - with some pretty powerfully merging and routing engines.  then you can have the Integrators supply it with a IP Address - and then you can have LX off in its own world - and know you can map through to the universes you need in the house - or easily tell a visiting person - patch these channels on this universe and youll be fine.


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    I mean it may be overkill, but you can look at the luminex Lumicore range - its designed to link Guest networks into house networks - with some pretty powerfully merging and routing engines.  then you can have the Integrators supply it with a IP Address - and then you can have LX off in its own world - and know you can map through to the universes you need in the house - or easily tell a visiting person - patch these channels on this universe and youll be fine.


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