Appendices
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A.4 Configuring the switches and devices
The layout is vital but so too is the configuration:
• Enable
IGMP Snooping
on all L2 switches.
• Ensure that
IGMP Fast-Leave
is enabled on all switches with ServSwitch Agility units connected directly to them.
• Enable the L3 switch as an
IGMP Querier
.
• Enable
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
on all switches and importantly also enable portfast (only) on all switch ports that
have ServSwitch Agility units connected.
• If any hosts will use any video resolutions using 2048 horizontal pixels (e.g. 2048 x 1152), ensure that
Jumbo Frames
are
enabled on all switches.
• Choose an appropriate forwarding mode on all switches. Use
Cut-through
if available, otherwise
Store and forward
.
• Optimise the settings on the ServSwitch Agility transmitters:
• If color quality is important, then leave Colordepth at 24 bits and adjust other controls,
• If moving video images are being shown frequently, then leave Frame Skipping at a low percentage and instead reduce the
Peak bandwidth limiter and Colordepth.
• Where screens are quite static, try increasing the Background Refresh interval and/or increasing the Frame skipping percent-
age setting.
Make changes to the ServSwitch Agility transmitters one at a time, in small steps, and view typical video images so that you
can attribute positive or negative results to the appropriate control.
• Ensure that all ServSwitch Agility units are fully updated to the latest firmware version (at least v2.1).