Connecting ISIS Hardware
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Two-Engine Connections
Three- to Twelve-Engine Stacking Summary With v2.
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Switches
When connecting three- to twelve-engines, connect and add the switches to the VLAN 10 subnet
(left side) first and then connect the engines to the VLAN 20 (right side) subnet. When accessing
the Agent Web pages for the engines, use your laptop through the Management port or the
Switch Agent Web through the Avid ISIS 7500 | 7000 software on your System Director.
Information on installing the software on the system Director is described in
In three- to twelve-engine configurations with IXS2000 switches, two IXSs are installed in the
first engine, see
“Three- to Twelve-Engine Connections With v2.x Switches” on page 73
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IXS2000 ports 1 through 11 are referred to from left to right as shown in the following figure.
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Inter-engine connection
CX-4 connector
Avid interconnect cable
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