That Netgear guide is great. Everything past the Unifi switch in the broadcast room is Netgear, a mix of 24 port and 8/10 port switches. All of them have IGMP support and QoS, but not all of them have very many settings that go that deep. I think only the 24 port guys let you even modify the queues for the DSCP tags, and even then I didn't see a way to add tags for it to recognize.
There's 6 strand fiber between the buildings and 2 pair are being used. The one fiber link is on a netgear switch with fiber connectors and it is a gigabit connection. The other one isn't (media converters, etc), but I'm not sure how those interact, it looks like there might be two 24 port switches in the MDF and the two fiber runs are both being used by each? I'm guessing both are being used to make a bigger pipe overall between the buildings, but again it's all on the same subnet.
It's been about 20 years since I've been in a networking infrastructure class, so I'm a bit rusty on what flies these days. Since there's an open pair of fiber on these runs I'm wondering if we couldn't just isolate all of our AV traffic to that pair. Can you patch fiber together at the rack? (I vaguely recall learning about how to splice it and taking a class that explained how bad it is to get fiber optic into your bloodstream, again like 20 years ago.) Or would you need some kinda SFP switch to connect those? The runs are not terribly long. This is our backup plan assuming configuration fails.
There's 6 strand fiber between the buildings and 2 pair are being used. The one fiber link is on a netgear switch with fiber connectors and it is a gigabit connection. The other one isn't (media converters, etc), but I'm not sure how those interact, it looks like there might be two 24 port switches in the MDF and the two fiber runs are both being used by each? I'm guessing both are being used to make a bigger pipe overall between the buildings, but again it's all on the same subnet.
It's been about 20 years since I've been in a networking infrastructure class, so I'm a bit rusty on what flies these days. Since there's an open pair of fiber on these runs I'm wondering if we couldn't just isolate all of our AV traffic to that pair. Can you patch fiber together at the rack? (I vaguely recall learning about how to splice it and taking a class that explained how bad it is to get fiber optic into your bloodstream, again like 20 years ago.) Or would you need some kinda SFP switch to connect those? The runs are not terribly long. This is our backup plan assuming configuration fails.