Related Documents; Terms - Yamaha SWP1-8 Owner's Manual

Related Documents

• Yamaha Audio Network Monitor User's
Guide (PDF)
This explains installation, settings, and usage of the
"Yamaha Audio Network Monitor" Windows
application.
• Command References (PDF)
This explains the commands used when making
settings from the command line of a computer.
These documents can be downloaded from the links in
the product page of the following website.
http://www.yamahaproaudio.com/
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SWP1 Owner's Manual

Terms

• VLAN
This stands for Virtual Local Area Network. A virtual
network is constructed separately from the physical
connections. When there are multiple networks of
differing types, setting up a VLAN allows a logically
separate network to be constructed that shares the
same physical switches.
A VLAN can be either a "Port-based VLAN" which
constructs groups using a physical connection for
each port, or a "Tag VLAN" which differentiates VLAN
groups by assigning a tag to each Ethernet frame.
In the case of a port-based VLAN, each VLAN requires
a connection to communicate with another switch.
Since a tag VLAN can use a single trunk connection
(cable) to communicate with other switches, multiple
tag VLANs can be connected together, but the total
amount of data must not exceed 1 Gbps. By using two
trunk cables with link aggregation, the bandwidth of
the trunk connection between two SWP1 units can be
increased to 2 Gbps. The VLAN presets of the SWP1
use tag VLAN.
• Trunk
This function allows multiple tag VLANs to transmit and
receive over a single connection. When one SWP1 unit
transmits VLAN 1 data via the trunk connection, the
SWP1 unit that receives this will transmit the data to
the port that corresponds to VLAN 1.
The bandwidth of the trunk connection for the SWP1's
VLAN preset is 1 Gbps per cable. If there is only one
cable, and the total bandwidth passing through VLAN
1 and VLAN 2 exceeds 1 Gbps, packets will be
delayed or dropped. The SWP1's VLAN presets
enable link aggregation of the trunk connection. If the
bandwidth will exceed 1 Gbps, or if you want to
provide redundancy to guard against cable breakage,
you should use two trunk cables.
: VLAN 1 port
: VLAN 2 port
: Trunk port
: Data flow