AV SuperFriends: Off the Rails - Never Ask the Network Guy to Do That

Recorded March 24, 2023

We’re joined by Paul Ziele to talk networking… and we get waaaay into it. We’re talking Mariana Trench, Kola Borehole, Hollow Earth. Record deepness… and we really only scratched the surface. We’ll have Paul back to continue this talk.

Paul shares his frustrations with AV people not knowing networking, Network people not knowing AV, and no one willing to budge more than a few wiggles to make it all work.

We also share a listener email about appropriate applications of 21:9 and we’re all (mostly) onboard! See, we’re not entirely anti-ultrawide aspect ratios…

 

Article discussed: Dirty Hands and IPMX https://www.avnetwork.com/news/dirty-hands-and-ipmx

Paul Ziele’s Deep Dive series https://www.avnetwork.com/news/zielie-deep-dive-series-introduction

 

Alternate episode titles:

It works until it doesn’t

Automagically

No one could mess that up

A lot of things breakdown when you leave a single subnet

It’s a secret because the manufacturer doesn’t know the answer

Dumber products or smarter integrators

Call me when nobody buys it

I hate security

There is almost no device in AV that has good enough security

Don’t put that button in; people will use it

They’ll change 15 settings at once

Put on your big boy pants

The Layer 2-3 boundary

If a limit isn’t given, then it’s unlimited

Forbidden VLAN