Lazerface Posted August 10, 2020 Report Share Posted August 10, 2020 Hello, I am looking for advice and best practices when using Watchout on a mixed use network. I have full control over my segment of the network, which is on enterprise grade hardware (Meraki). The need for a mixed use network arises from a requirement for an NDI feed of a device logged into a video conference to be used in Watchout. Other than the obvious pitfalls of exposing show machines to internet (rogue windows updates, etc.), what other things should I be aware of? I don't have additional NICs available for the production or display machine to have a separate network for NDI, as I need to do this for an event in just over 48 hours. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBeddig Posted August 11, 2020 Report Share Posted August 11, 2020 Once the media has travvelled to your servers, WATCHOUT only needs a very small bandwidth. You need to make sure that you do not block ports and WATCHOUT uses TCP and UDP ports for the communication. I assume that you don't have bored technicians sitting in your network streaming videos all the time during the event! NDI uses appr. 125 Mbit/s for each encoder or decoder (FHD). So as long as you don't want to push WATCHOUT, NDI, a big lighting network over Artnet plus many channels over Dante through your network, I don't see a lot of problems here. WATCHOUT wouldn't really work with more than one NIC on a server or on the production computer anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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