Luminex GigaCore Series User manual

USER MANUAL
GIGACORE PRODUCT FAMILY
GigaCore 10
THANKS FOR CHOOSING LUMINEX
Description: User Manual GigaCore 10.
REVISION: 20200204-REV 2.8.4

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CONTENTS
1. INSTALLATION.................................................................... 4
1.1 Mounting the device ..............................................................4
Rack mount...................................................................4
Rack mount - two devices...................................4
Truss mount .................................................................5
Wall Mount ...................................................................6
1.2 Power up the device ...............................................................6
1.3 Description....................................................................................7
1.4 LED Indicators..............................................................................8
1.5 Connecting to the web interface....................................8
1.6 Reset ..............................................................................................8
2. GIGACORE FEATURES EXPLAINED................................ 9
2.1 RlinkX ..............................................................................................9
2.2 Groups .........................................................................................10
2.2 MultiLinkX................................................................................... 10
3. CONFIGURATION............................................................12
3.1 Connecting to the web interface................................. 12
3.2 Status Page.................................................................................12
3.3 Global Page................................................................................13
3.4 RlinkX ...........................................................................................17
3.5 Groups........................................................................................... 18
3.6 PoE ..................................................................................................20
3.7 Profile Manager .......................................................................22
4. RESET ...............................................................................24
4.1 Reset ............................................................................................24
4.2 Reload Default..........................................................................24
4.3 Factory Reset.............................................................................25
5. TECHNICAL SUPPORT....................................................25
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1. INSTALLATION
1.1 Mounting the device
GigaCore 10 is a device that can be mounted in a truss as well as
in a rack. Please read the following instructions to make sure the
device is mounted and secured correctly.
RACK MOUNT
In case you want to mount your GigaCore 10 in a standard 19-inch
rack, you must attach the included mounting ears. Connect the
longest ear (A) to the right-hand side of the device with 4 screws,
re-used from the device. Attach the shorter ear (B) to the left-hand
side again with the 4 screws.
RACK MOUNT  TWO DEVICES
In case you want to mount two GigaCore 10 devices in a standard
19-inch rack you can mount the two devices together. This is a way
to save space as the two devices will only consume a single row in
your 19-inch rack.
Connect the shortest ear (C) to the left-hand side of the first device
with 4 screws, re-used from the device. Attach the other shortest
ear (D), delivered with the second device, to the right-hand side
of the second device, again with 4 screws. Use a pair of mounting
brackets (E) to connect the two devices in the middle on the front
side. Use a second pair of mounting brackets (E), delivered with
the second device, to connect the devices at the rear. Each pair of
brackets must be mounted with 2 screws.
B
A
C
E
E
D
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To combine a GigaCore 10 device with a Luminex half 19” device,
style LumiNode 4, the mounting procedure differs a little.
The bolt (F), not included, replaces the rear couplers at the rear
side of the devices. Use the correct bolt, M10x20, with a screw wire
no longer as 20mm. You can order this part from Luminex (Part
Number: R 90 01042)
Screw the bolt, through the LumiNode 4 back ear, into the side
M10 insert and tighten it. The rest of the mounting procedure re-
mains the same.
TRUSS MOUNT
To mount a GigaCore 10 in a truss, you must attach a M10 clamp
(G) to the M10 insert (H). After that, you can mount the clamp to
the truss bars. Please also secure the device by attaching a safety
line directly to the truss bars as well (I).
F
G
I
H
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1.2 Power up the device
Power-up the device with a power cable with Neutrik powerCON
TRUE1 connection (J) (please contact your local dealer if you don’t have
a suitable power cable on hand). The device will automatically switch
on. To shut it down after use, just un-plug the power cable again.
After connecting the power cable correctly, by default the power LED
indicator on the front panel will light up in green.
The GigaCore 10 requires standard AC power distribution from 100-
240VAC, 50/60Hz. Current required depends on the model.
The mating Neutrik® powerCON® TRUE1 connector is supplied;
however, you will need to purchase or construct a cable appropriate
for your application.
When installing a new connector please refer to the following wire
colour code reference:
WIRE* CONNECTION
Green/Yellow AC Ground
Blue AC Neutral
Brown AC Line
* International (Harmonised) Standard
J
WALL MOUNT
To mount a GigaCore 10 on the wall, you must attach the wall
mount brackets (A) (LU_10_00126). Connect the brackets with 4
screws, re-used from the device.
A
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1.3 Description
1.3.1 Front Panel
A STATUS LEDS:
Power: Indicates the status of the power supply.
PoE: Indicates the status of the PoE functionality and the PoE
supplies (GigaCore 10 with PoE only).
RLinkX: Indicates the RLinkX status.
B MODE:
Mode LED: Indicates the selected state for the port Mode LEDs
(see the“LED indicators”section for more details).
Mode button: Use this button to browse through the different
states for the port Mode LEDs.
C OPTICAL PORT LEDS:
2x Optical Port Mode: According to the selected state, the
LED will show different colours.
2x Optical Port Link/Speed: Shows the current speed and
link activity of a port.
D ETHERCON PORTS:
4x EtherCon 10/100/1000Mbs port.
E OPTICAL FIBRE:
1x Quad core or 2x Duo core fibre optic connector.
1.3.1 Rear Panel
F POWER:
1x Neutrik powerCON TRUE1 inlet.
G ETHERCON PORTS:
4x EtherCon 10/100/1000Mbs port.
AB
B
C
D D
FG G G G
D D E E
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1.5 Connecting to the web interface
The default GigaCore IP address is displayed at the rear of the
unit. Set your computer with a compliant IP address (do not
use the same IP address!).
Connect your computer to the GigaCore with a network cable.
Launch your favourite web browser.
Type the IP address of the switch in the address field followed
by enter .
PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THE WEB INTERFACE OF A SWITCH
CAN ONLY BE REACHED THROUGH A PORT ASSIGNED IN THE
MANAGEMENT GROUP (FROMTHE SWITCHYOU’RE CONNECTED
TO, OR FROM ANOTHER SWITCH THROUGH AN ISL PORT). YOU
NEED AT LEAST ONE PORT ASSIGNED TO THE MANAGEMENT
GROUP IN YOUR ENTIRE NETWORK TO REACH THE WEB INTER-
FACE OF ALLYOUR GIGACORE SWITCHES
FACTORY DEFAULT ALL PORTS ARE ASSIGNED TO THE MANAGE-
MENT GROUP.
1.6 Reset
Sometimes it can come in handy to reset the device. To do this,
press and hold the mode button for 10 seconds. Once the four
status LEDs blink red, release the button. This will reset all settings
to default. The user profiles will be preserved though.
For more detailed information on how to reset the device and
what reset options are available please check chapter 4 of this
manual.
1.4 LED indicators:
The LED indicators of the GigaCore 10 and GigaCore 10 with PoE show
the following statuses:
SWITCH LED COLOUR DESCRIPTION
Power (General status
LED)
Green All OK
Green blink Unit is writing to the flash.
Do not disconnect power
Orange Temperature warning
Red blink Temperature or Fan error
Red/Green
blink
The unit is flashing
new firmware. Do not
disconnect power
PoE LED (GigaCore 10
with PoE only)
Green Internal PoE supply OK.
PoE functionality OK
Red blink PoE supply or PoE
functionality error
RLinkX LED Green RLinkX is active
PORT LED STATUS DESCRIPTION
Link Off No Link
Green Gigabit connection
Orange 10/100 Mbps connec-
tion
Blink Activity
With the use of the mode button, the user can get all the necessary
information immediately. Press the mode button to browse through
the different states.
STATE MODE
LED
PORT
MODE
LED
DESCRIPTION
Groups White Group
Colour
The LED Colour
indicates the group
assignation of the port
RLinkX Blue Blue Indicates a redundant
port
MultiLinkX Magenta Magenta MultiLinkX is enabled
on this port
White MultiLinkX is active on
this port
PoE Yellow Yellow PoE is activated on this
port
Orange Port is sourcing PoE to
a device
Red Error with PoE
Dark Mode Off Off All port LEDs are
switched off. Switch
status LEDs remain
available.
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1 | INSTALLATION / 1.4 LED INDICATORS / 1.5 CONNECTION WEB INTERFACE / 1.6 RESET

2.GIGACORE FEATURES EXPLAINED
The GigaCore range of switches offers many unique features
which greatly simplify your everyday job.
These features will be explained on the following paragraphs.
2.1 RlinkX:
RLinkX, which stands for Redundant Link by LumineX, is an automat-
ed system to easily create redundant paths between your GigaCore
switches. Switches automatically create active and redundant paths,
providing an effortless method to create safe networks.
If one of the active paths fails, the switches will enable a redundant
path in a seamless manner.The recovery time is between 20 and 40ms.
By default, all GigaCore ports have RLinkX enabled, which means you
can interconnect any GigaCore switch between each other. All redun-
dant paths will be created automatically by the switches, no need for
configuration.
To create a redundant path with RLinkX, simply connect a minimum
of two links between two GigaCore switches. The blue RLinkX LEDs of
the connected ports will turn on, indicating the redundancy is active
and available.
If your port’s RLinkX LED turn off, you have lost one of your redundant
paths.
User connects two switches with
two links. The switches automati-
cally create a backup link.
Active link becomes unavailable Backup link becomes active
automatically
Active path
Backup path
RlinkX
20-40ms
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2.2 Groups (VLANs)
The groups function allows the user to segment the network into sev-
eral virtual networks (VLANs). The main benefit of this function is that
no group will affect the other ones, on protocol level.
The user can create several groups on the network, and each device
included in a group will be able to communicate with devices in this
group only. This will result in a better bandwidth, and no protocol con-
flict.
Three groups have been created in the illustration to the right: Red,
Green and Blue. Each device included in each group can communi-
cate with devices from the same group. Thus, the sound console and
the sound processor can talk to each other, without being flooded by
packets streamed by the two other groups.
The GigaCore switches offer 20 groups, to which the user can assign
any of the ports. Two devices must be part of the same group to com-
municate.
When more than one switch is used in a group-based network, the
Inter Switch Link group (ISL Group 0) must be used to forward the
group’s packages between switches.
2.3 MultiLinkX:
Most of the time, a redundant link set with RLinkX between two Gi-
gaCore switches will be good for the everyday event. A 1000Mbps link
is more than enough for most of the current applications. However,
it can happen that you’ll need to transfer a larger amount of data be-
tween the switches.
For example four video transmitters are transmitting four video
streams to each dedicated receiver. Each stream requires a throughput
of 400Mbps, which represents 1600Mbps in total.
However, only one link is active between the switches, as the oth-
er link is used as redundant link. So, a maximum of 1000Mbps data
transfer can be achieved on this link. In the above example, we need
1600Mbps of throughput to transfer all four video streams between
the switches.
This is not enough, the link between the switches will create a bottle-
neck, resulting in data loss or data delay. The video streams won’t be
delivered in time and will create lag in the video output.
The solution? MulitiLinkX!
MultiLinkx enables you to gather several links together and turn them
into one virtual link (link aggregation). This provides you with more
bandwidth between the switches, and thus more throughput. Multi-
LinkX can accept a maximum of 16 ports per aggregation, and up to 8
aggregations can be created on a switch.
Light Over IP Converter
Light Over IP Console
Sound Over IP Processor
Sound Over IP Console
Video Over IP Out
Video Over IP Out
Inter Switch Links (ISL)
Rx: 400Mbps
Tx: 400Mbps
Rx: 400Mbps
Tx: 400Mbps Tx: 400Mbps
1000Mbps
Rx: 400Mbps Rx: 400Mbps
Tx: 400Mbps
Rx: 400Mbps Rx: 400Mbps Rx: 400Mbps Rx: 400Mbps
Tx: 400Mbps Tx: 400Mbps Tx: 400Mbps
1000Mbps
+1000Mbps
Tx: 400Mbps
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2 | GIGACORE FEATURES EXPLAINED / 2.2 GROUPS / 2.3 MULTILINKX

Working with PTPv2 on MultiLinkX
When working with PTPv2 (PrecisionTime Protocol v2), you’ll notice an
inverted PTPv2 icon to indicate the PTPv2 enabled port is in an aggre-
gation. You must always link the lowest ports of the active aggregation
to each other to avoid problems with the PTPv2. It is recommended to
never create a cross link between ports in a different order.
1 + 1 is NOT 2!
By adding an additional link into the aggregation, it’s easy to think you’ll
have double the bandwidth available.
However, MulitLinkX relies on LACP (Link Aggregation Control Proto-
col). The algorithm used by the protocol requires several parameters
of the Ethernet frame to decide to which port of the aggregation the
frame will be forwarded.
The protocol uses the following parameters:
Source Mac Address
Source IP Address
Source Port (TCP/UDP)
Destination IP Address
Destination Port (TCP/UDP)
The ports included in the aggregation
In some circumstances it might happen that several data streams will
be forwarded to the same port. To know where the data stream will be
forwarded to, you can have a look at our aggregation planning web
page.Type the following link into the address bar of your favourite web
browser: http://IPOFMYSWITCH/aggregation_code.html
According to the parameters of your Ethernet frame, the page will
show you which port will be in use. This allows you to predict, but also
to solve some problems. In the unlikely event of an overloaded link in
an aggregation, the user can solve the problem by simply changing
the appropriate IP address for the source, for example.
MultiLinkX technology is available on the ISL ports only!
It is also a good habit to allocate the specific number of links
in an aggregation to fulfil your throughput requirements, plus
one link. If one link fails, you’ll still have the minimum number
of necessary links to transfer all your data!
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3.CONFIGURATION
In the next paragraphs we will describe how to configure your
GigaCore switch via the build in web interface. An alternative way
to configure your switches is via the Araneo software which can be
downloaded from our website www.luminex.be/araneo.
PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THE WEB INTERFACE OF A SWITCH
CAN ONLY BE REACHED THROUGH A PORT ASSIGNED IN THE
MANAGEMENT GROUP (FROMTHE SWITCHYOU’RE CONNECTED
TO, OR FROM ANOTHER SWITCH THROUGH AN ISL PORT). YOU
NEED AT LEAST ONE PORT ASSIGNED TO THE MANAGEMENT
GROUP IN YOUR ENTIRE NETWORK TO REACH THE WEB INTER-
FACE OF ALLYOUR GIGACORE SWITCHES
FACTORY DEFAULT ALL PORTS ARE ASSIGNED TO THE MANAGE-
MENT GROUP.
3.1 Connecting to the web interface
Every GigaCore switch embeds a built-in web server, which excludes
the need of a dedicated application to configure the unit. Browsers
such as Chrome, Internet Explorer (IE9 minimum), Firefox or Safari can
be used to reach the web server.
Every unit comes with a default IP address, visible at the rear of the unit.
Set your computer with an IP address within the same subnet (do not
use the same IP address!).
Example 1: Switch IP address: 192.168.1.1, Netmask
255.255.255.0 / Computer IP address: 192.168.1.2, Netmask
255.255.255.0
Example 2: Switch IP address: 192.168.2.112, Netmask:
255.255.0.0 / Computer IP address: 192.168.2.113, Netmask
255.255.0.0
Connect your computer to the switch with a network cable and
launch your favourite web browser. Type the IP address of the switch in
the address field, and press enter. You’ll be prompted to enter a login:
Use admin in the user field and leave the password field blank.
This takes you to the status page of the GigaCore switch.
3.2 Status Page
The status page is split into several panes:
(A) Switch image: The top image gives you a quick overview of the
switch port status (front and rear). Active ports are filled with the fol-
lowing colours:
Orange: 100Mbps link
Green: 1000Mbps (1Gbps) link
(B) Wink: The wink feature allows you to easily identify a GigaCore
switch in a stack of devices. Click on the Luminex Logo on the switch
image, all four status LEDs on the left-hand side of the switch will start
blinking three times.
(C) Main menu: On the left-hand side, you can find the main menu.
Click on any tab to reach the corresponding menu.
(D) Port status: This table gives you a quick overview of the switch’s
port settings. Parameters such as port speed and legend can be mod-
ified in the following menu: Global > Port Settings.
(E) IP Settings: Find here all the network settings of the switch. These
parameters can be modified in the following menu: Global > Device
Settings.
(F) System info: Find here all the info of the device such as serial num-
ber, device name, system identifier, MAC address, system description,
and if a configuration profile is currently in use.This information can be
modified in the following menu: Global > Device Settings.
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A
C
D
E
B
3.3.1 Device settings:
This menu allows you to change IP and ID settings of the unit, and the
brightness of the front panel’s LEDs.
(A) IP settings: Assign here the IP address of your switch. This IP ad-
dress will be used to reach the switch’s web interface. If your network
is equipped with a DHCP server, you can enable the DHCP client of
the switch for it to receive an IP address automatically from the DHCP
server.
However, if DHCP is enabled, you can still assign an IP address to the
switch. This IP address will be used if there is no DHCP server available
at boot up.
Enter your default gateway IP address if your switch needs to be
reached from a routed network.
3.3 Global Page
The global page consists of four sub menus:
(B) ID settings: Set the name of your switch here and add a descrip-
tion to easily identify your switch in your network.
(C) LED Brightness: Set here the level of brightness you wish to apply
to the front panel’s LEDs.
(D) IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol): Enable or Dis-
able the IGMP unknown-flooding state here. When enabled all unreg-
istered multicast traffic is forwarded regardless.
(E) Enable SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol): Here
you can configure whether you want to use SNMP. Enabling or Dis-
abling SNMP requires a reboot of the device.
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3.3.2 Port Settings:
This menu allows you to change the port’s speed, add a legend to
each port and enable remote monitoring per port.
The port speed drop-down menu offers the following options:
Disabled: Disable the port. The port will appear
greyed out on the top switch image.
Auto: The port automatically detects the speed
of the connected device (default).
10Mbps HDX: 10Mbps Half Duplex
10Mbps FDX: 10Mbps Full Duplex
100Mbps HDX: 100Mbps Half Duplex
100Mbps FDX: 100Mbps Full Duplex
1Gbps FDX: 1000Mbps Full Duplex
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A C
D
B
3.3.3 Utilities:
This page brings you the tools to reset your device in different ways
and set some default security parameters.
(A) Reset: This menu allows the user to bring the switch into different
levels of reset:
1. Preserve IP Settings: Tick the upper checkbox if you wish to bring
the device back to the default settings but keep the actual IP pa-
rameters set on the device.
If you leave this checkbox unticked, the device will set the IP ad-
dress back to the factory default address printed on the label on
the rear of the device.
2. Preserve all user profiles: Tick the lower checkbox if you wish to
bring the device back to the default settings but keep all the pro-
files stored in the profile manager.
Press“Apply Reset”once you have selected the appropriate options for
your reset. Resetting the device with both checkboxes unticked will
bring the device back to factory default.
(B) Reboot: Press the “Reboot Now” button to reboot the device. All
your settings will be preserved.
(C) Security: The user can use this feature to set a password to protect
the access to the web interface. The default login for the web interface
is: Username admin and leave the password field blank.
Click on“Change password”to apply your new settings.
(D) Default prole: By clicking on the checkbox the user can protect
the profile stored in slot 1 from being deleted or overwritten.
When the user performs a Reload Default from the front panel’s mode
button (see Reload Default later in this manual), the device will be re-
boot into profile 1. This is a handy tool to quickly recall your favourite
profile.
Once the first profile is protected and set as default, a padlock will ap-
pear on slot 1 on the profile tab.
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3.3.4 Firmware:
This page brings you the tools to reset your device in different ways
and set some default security parameters. To upgrade the switch, click
on the Upload Firmware button and select the firmware file you saved
on your computer. The upgrade procedure takes about 4 minutes to
complete.
WARNING: DO NOT DISCONNECT POWER
DURING FIRMWARE UPGRADE
Alternate image:
If you’re not satisfied with your recently uploaded firmware you
can reload the previous firmware version that was installed on
the switch. Press the Activate alternate firmware button to reload
the previous firmware. The downgrade process takes about 1
minute.
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A
B
C
3.4 RlinkX
RLinkX is designed to provide a plug and play redundant system.
This menu allows you to enable/disable RLinkX on each port of the
switch. A port with RLinkX enabled is represented by a blue circle
around the port.
RLinkX Settings:
To enable/disable RLinkX on a port follow the following steps:
A. Click on the port(s) you wish to select. Selected ports will be
highlighted.
B. Choose Enable On/Off.
C. Click Apply to submit the changes.
It is sometimes useful to disable RLinkX on some of the ports on the
GigaCore as some devices do not comply with the RLinkX packet the
switch sends out periodically to maintain its redundant link.
Once a minimum of two links are connected between two switches
the blue LEDs on these ports will light up indicating the redundancy
is active and operational.
3.4.1 Advanced:
MultiLinkX, our aggregation protocol, has been designed to work flaw-
lessly with RLinkX, our redundancy protocol.
To provide users with a more advanced and efficient method to re-
cover topology in case of a link failure, Luminex has developed a new
method for best link cost calculation in an aggregated network based
on the available bandwidth per link.
This calculation method is the default one when using MultiLinkX.
However, in the case you would have to connect your aggregated links
to an existing IT network, best is to select the usual path cost calcula-
tion based on RSTP.
To select this method, click on the Advanced button and select RSTP as
link cost. Press apply to submit your changes.
When a user connects a minimum of two aggregated links between
two switches, it is easy to think these are redundant links. However, this
is seen as a unique link between the switches. Therefore, the RLinkX
LED won’t lit up. This is normal behaviour.
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A
C
B
3.5 Groups (VLANs)
Groups is a technology which offers the user to easily segment the
network into several virtual networks (VLANs).
This menu allows the user to assign ports to one of the 20 embedded
groups of the switch.
A group is a combination of ports and the user can assign as many
ports as they want to a group.
The GigaCore range offers three types of groups:
Group 0 (ISL): This group is dedicated to the Inter Switch Link
(trunk). This is the name given to the interconnection links be-
tween GigaCore switches in a network. The ISL links are meant
to forward the group-based packets. In most cases the ISL links
will be the redundant links (RLinkX). If you already have con-
nected your redundant links, click on the advanced button and
press “Retrieve from RLinkX”. The switch will automatically as-
sign the redundant ports as ISL ports.
Group 1 (Management): This group is dedicated to the man-
agement of the switch (web interface). You need to have at
least one port of the switch assigned to the management
group to be able to reach the web interface. In a star, ring or
mesh network topology comprised of GigaCore switches you
need to have at least one port on one of the switches set in this
group in order to be able to reach the web interface of any of
the switches.
Group 2 to 20: These are the generic groups to be used for any
purpose such as sound, lighting, intercom, video….
To assign ports to a group please follow the following steps:
A. Select the group you wish to assign ports to. Use the coloured
index of the jog and rotate the jog to change the group. If you
wish to change the name of the group, click on the Name but-
ton. A name window appears to rename the group. Click “Apply”
to confirm your changes. Without “Apply” or “Cancel” to finish the
name change you can’t access any other groups.
B. Select the ports you wish to assign to the group. Selected ports
will be highlighted.
C. Click on the Assign button to assign the ports to the group.
The selected ports will now change to the colour of the selected
group. If you are not satisfied with the selection of ports and wish
to restart your selection you can click the Clear button to reset
the selection.
PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THE WEB INTERFACE OF A SWITCH
CAN ONLY BE REACHED THROUGH A PORT ASSIGNED IN THE
MANAGEMENT GROUP (FROMTHE SWITCHYOU’RE CONNECTED
TO, OR FROM ANOTHER SWITCH THROUGH AN ISL PORT). YOU
NEED AT LEAST ONE PORT ASSIGNED TO THE MANAGEMENT
GROUP IN YOUR ENTIRE NETWORK TO REACH THE WEB INTER-
FACE OF ALLYOUR GIGACORE SWITCHES.
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3.5.1 Advanced:
The advanced pane offers the user access to extended parameters
such as:
VID: Luminex group technology relies on the 802.1Q VLAN
protocol. By default, Luminex groups have a default VLAN ID. If
required, the user can change the VID of the group. Be aware
that if you wish to change this VID you’ll have to change it on
all the switches using this group.
IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol)
IGMP is required when using multicast protocols
Snooping: This button activates IGMP snooping. IGMP snoop-
ing is a smart way to manage multicast packets and forward
them to the registered ports. The main advantage of the IGMP
snooping is to avoid ports to be flooded with unrequested
packets.
Querier: IGMP snooping requires at least one switch in a group
to act as a querier. The querier registers the multicast packets to
the corresponding ports. If more than one querier is activated
per group, the switch with the lowest IP address will be elected
as querier. This election process is automated.
PTP (Precision Time Protocol)
The Precision Time Protocol is a protocol used to synchronize
clocks throughout a computer network. On a local area net-
work, it achieves clock accuracy in the sub-microsecond range,
making it suitable for measurement and control systems.
PTPv2: The Luminex GigaCore series support Precision Time
Protocol Version 2. With PTPv2 the GigaCore can be part of the
clock domain which is necessary for protocols such as AES67.
The user can enable/disable PTPv2 communications within the
selected group by validating the tick box and by selecting the
mode that best fit the setup.
• E2E – End to End
The E2E delay mechanism measures the delay from the Slave
to the Master.
• P2P – Peer to Peer
The P2P delay mechanism measures the delay between two
nodes only independent of their states.
Domain: please enter a value for your PTP domain here.
Press Apply to submit your changes. You can have only one PTP
setup per switch, so in one group only.
In the status page, a stopwatch will be displayed for every port
set in the group associated to a PTP domain.
AVB: The GigaCore switches fully support AVB/AVB Milan. In
order to configure a group to be used for AVB, select the group,
click the advanced options and tick the box AVB.
A warning screen will pop up to warn you for the following:
• PTPv2 is disabled in every group.
• MultiLinkX (aggregation) is disabled.
• VID 2 is not permitted for a group.
• Only use 100Mbps/1Gbps FDX port links.
• AVB can only be active in one group.
If you are using equipment that is not fully Avnu/Milan certified
there is a work around option available to make this equipment
function properly on the GigaCore switches.
If you choose the option “Legacy SET 1” the switch is still con-
figured for AVB but NOT Milan. The following warning will be
given when choosing this option:
Warning: Enabling this button makes the LeaveAll to send 2 iso
1 joinMts. This option can be needed as workaround in combi-
nation with some non Avnu/Milan certified components.
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3.6 PoE: (LU 01 00058-POE only):
PoE (Power over Ethernet) is a convenient way to transport both data
and power over the same network cable and doing so powering a
device with its data cable. Your GigaCore switch can then be a data
connection hub and power source for your end devices.
PoE supply will provide PoE enabled ports as a default configura-
tion (see the upper illustration on page 21).
A PoE enabled port is displayed with a yellow latch above the port.
When the switch is currently sourcing a PoE device through a port,
the latch will turn orange, as is the port LED on the front.
The PoE status page will offer the following information per port:
The Powered Device Class (0, 1, 2, …)
The power consumption (Watts)
The current consumption (mA)
The priority (low, high, critical)
The port status
On the right-hand side of the page, a bar graph displays the cur-
rent power consumption of the switch. The switch can deliver a
total of 130W to share on the 8 EtherCon ports, with a maximum
of 30W per port. (PoE+ compliant).
3.5.2 MultiLinkX:
MultiLinkX (also known as link aggregation) allows you to gather sever-
al links together in order to increase the available bandwidth between
switches. MultiLinkX is available for ISL ports only.
To enable MultiLinkX you first select group zero (ISL) on the group
page. Select the “Advanced” option and tick the box “Enabled” un-
der the text MultiLinkX. Press apply to submit the changes.
Once MultiLinkX is enabled on the ISL ports, a Magenta bar will
appear below/above the selected ports. Once MultiLinkX is active
on the ISL ports, the Magenta bar will turn White.
3.5.3 Tagged Management Group VID 1:
Sometimes it is required to integrate GigaCore switches with
third party hardware. In some systems the management
group needs to be untagged in the ISL group. On the Gi-
gaCore switches the management group is tagged by default.
A ‘Tagged’ port is an inter-switch link and an ‘Untagged’ port is a
host port.
To un-tag the management group VID:1, select group zero (ISL) on
the group page. Select the“Advanced”option and un-tick the box
“Enabled” under the text Tagged Management Group VID:1. Press
apply to submit the changes.
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