Using SVSi with HiQnet or Dante on the Same VLAN

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Question: Answer:

Question:

Can SVSi equipment be on the same VLAN as HiQnet or Dante?

Answer:

No, the HiQnet traffic can be easily overcome by the multitude of multicast traffic on the VLAN. HARMAN encourages a separate VLAN for Video, Audio, and Control traffic, to avoid these types of disruptions within the system. HiQnet traffic would fall into the Control type of traffic and not be cataloged as Audio traffic.

For SVSi and Dante traffic to reside within the same VLAN, the network switch could be configured using a custom configuration file. There are multiple configurations changes and design considerations that need to be accounted for when deploying this type of configuration.