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August 18, 2020
NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
V-Com is part of a system consisting of a Q-Sys Core, network hardware, and the V-Com stations themselves.
A single network connection handles both control and audio transport this connection can either be via CAT5e
Ethernet cables or Single-Mode/Multi-Mode Fiber Ethernet cables if the length exceeds 300 ft.
When using CAT5e, power can be provided directly over the Ethernet connection via PoE. Since the SFP
connection is not capable of providing power, a local DC power supply is required whenever you’re using this
interface for a fiber-based Ethernet connection.
One important thing to understand is that each V-Com station has two network interfaces that are switched into a
single physical port; one for Control and the other for Network Audio (Dante or AES67). Also, Q-Sys cores
handle AES67 and Dante very differently. AES67 can be utilized on the same network as Q-Lan, while Dante
requires a dedicated Dante IO card to be installed within the Q-Sys core.
With all of these factors in mind, here are the network architectures we recommend depending on which audio
network protocol you choose to use.
AES67 NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
The biggest advantage of using AES67 is that it co-exists peacefully with the native Q-Lan protocol used by Q-Sys
DSP cores. This means that you can interface to both the audio and control interfaces of the V-Page stations
simply by connecting one of the Q-Lan ports to the V-Page network.
