MEU

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Hi

Does anyone know if the MEU can be used as a standard switch in an iLive network. ie can I connect non ME1 devices into it and access the iLive, other devices on the network and ALL dante channels?

I’m looking at getting a couple of these

which need POE and I wondered if I could just run them off an MEU instead of having to buy another POE switch as well.

Regards

Toby

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The bigger question is: do you really want to run the risk that the band will lose their IEMs even momentarily,for the sake of buying an extra $100 switch?

Duncan Whitcombe

@Dnxmirrorsounds

Mirror Sounds & metrochurch

Perth, Australia

T112, iDR48x2

www.mirrorsounds.com.au

www.metrochurch.org.au

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Hi Toby

No, you can’t use the ME-U in that way. The 10 ports do form a standard switch, but all 10 broadcast a dSnake stream, which uses pretty much all of the bandwidth available.

  • Jeff, A&H
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Thanks Jeff

@Duncan

If you can tell me where I can find a 16 or 24 port rack mount managed gigabit switch with POE for $100 then I wouldn’t need to ask.

The last switch I bought cost me $1800 so I was thinking if an MEU could be used it would nicely kill two birds with one stone.

Or one bird with two rack spaces so to speak.

I wouldn’t trust my audio to a $100 switch.

I’d rather not have to tell a client that the reason they had a 5000 pax riot on their hands when the audio stopped during a show was because I bought a $100 network switch which all of my control, audio and monitor splits for the whole show were passing through.

A switch is a single point of failure these days and not worth skimping on. There is a big difference between a cheap consumer switch and an enterprise managed switch which we really all should be using if we value the traffic passing over it.

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Hi Toby,

Why not just add a POE injector to power the unit?

Sounds like it would be a $30 solution

Gil Parente

Design & Integration

Entertainment Arts, Inc.

iLive 176, T112

iDR48 , iDR16, iDR10

Multiple iPads

Dante

Etc…

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I use POE a lot.

I have multiple access points, remote audio transmission equipment.

Injectors are ok, but they are messy and another point of failure.

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quote:
Originally posted by millst

There is a big difference between a cheap consumer switch and an enterprise managed switch which we really all should be using if we value the traffic passing over it.

Yes indeed - there is a big difference - a $100 switch could potentially fail and ruin your gig, an $1800 enterprise class managed switch could possibly fail and ruin your gig. The difference is $1700 and a false sense of security HaHaHa!! [:smiley: ]

Cheers

Richard Howey

Audio Dynamite Ltd

IDR48/IDR16/T112/R72/Mixpad,Tweak,

Dual M-Dante/DVS, 17"MBP/Logic 9/Custom Mackie Control

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If that was the case I would have bought an x32 :smiley:

I have a pile of 5 poked dlink and net gear “cheap” switches that are broke.

I have had precisely zero Cisco and linksys switches out of a fleet of 7 that have failed.

I like those odds.