Product specifications

ISIS | 2500 Network Zone Configurations

ISIS | 5500 Zone 2 Configuration (System Director and Switch 10 Gb Connections)

A 10 Gb connection between your Engine and switch allows you set up the switch and clients farther away from

the Avid ISIS system. When using a single Engine, it must be configured as the System Director and can use

either the 1 Gb ports or 10 Gb port to connect to the switch. You can use the 10 Gb port in the Engine for a single

or multiple Engine configuration. When using multiple Engines, you must connect the System Director and other

Engines to the switch using the ’ 10 Gb Engine ports. A stacked or cascaded switch configuration allows you to

connect up to 90 1 Gb Ethernet clients.

The 10 Gb board is an option in the ISIS | 5500-16 Engine. For instructions on installing the 10 Gb Ethernet

adapter board, see the Avid ISIS | 5500 Setup Guide.

Avid ISIS | 5500 Infrastructure — with Optional Storage

ISIS | 5500 Zone 3 and Zone 4 Client Configuration

A Zone 3 (indirect connect) configuration consists of a group of clients connected to an Avid qualified layer-3

switch (routed), with known Quality of Service (QoS), with traffic routed to the ISIS (one hop).

A Zone 4 (indirect connect) configuration consists of a group of clients using an Ethernet switch with unknown

QoS, with traffic routed to the ISIS (measured by the number of hops).

ISIS | 2500 Network Zone Configurations

ISIS | 2500 systems typically are integrated with ISIS | 7500 or ISIS | 5500 environments. The ISIS | 2500 System

Director and ISIS | 2500 Engine are connected to ISIS | 7500 or ISIS | 5500 switches that have been configured

with a separate VLAN on the Zone 2 switch. See your site network administrator for assistance with configuring

the separate VLAN on your switch. The following sections define the ISIS clients in each network layer by their

zone classification. Zone terminology does not apply to other clients such as Interplay Central.

Avid ISIS

ISIS 5000

Up to 90 clients

Ethernet switch

Ethernet client

Optional storage enclosures

10 Gb Ethernet

Avid ISIS