Advice

This article will cover some networking best practices to ensure Mediacast and other network traffic does not affect RMP-100 performance.

• Place the device on its own dedicated VLAN (e.g., a "Q-SYS RoomSuite" VLAN) with a unique IP subnet.

  Note

  Do not share the broadcast domain with AV media, corporate, external Dante/AES67, guest networks, or other Q-SYS networks that will have Mediacast traffic on them.

   
• Configure the VLAN so the RMP-100 can reach NTP, DNS, DHCP, and the Reflect cloud service through controlled routing.
• Do not allow multicast routing to leak AV streams from other VLANs into the Q-SYS RoomSuite VLAN.
• Keep AV media streams (Mediacast, Dante, Q-SYS Discovery) on their own separate VLAN(s).
• If RMP-100 cannot be placed on its own VLAN, consider using VLAN isolated ports, or port-based ACLs, so devices on the same VLAN cannot talk to each other directly — each device can only reach the gateway/uplink and approved services so that the undesired Mediacast traffic can be contained away from RoomSuite.
• If managing ports, leave ports enabled for http/https access to the Room Manager web interface. See Network Settings.
• If managing ports, make sure to leave ports enabled for Reflect access to RMP-100. See Getting Started with Reflect.

  Note

  RoomSuite should still be able to get to reflect.qsc.com.