Could Pixelmad control up to 60 Universes of DMX?

[OlliR]

I will do some testing on 200+ universes as soon as I have some time for that...
I will also try to find out how far you can go on braodcast when using 100 Mb/s infrastructure... - you should get 250 universes as well (have seen that work on other systems...)

[samsc]

I will do some testing on 200+ universes as soon as I have some time for that...
I will also try to find out how far you can go on braodcast when using 100 Mb/s infrastructure... - you should get 250 universes as well (have seen that work on other systems...)

as long as the ethernet switch routes the data directly to the artnet boxes - it should work.
You can send 1Gb ethernet out from catalyst as artnet fine - even on fibre backbone-
what breaks artnet is sending too much data down the final cable between switch and artnet box - many artnet boxes only work at 10BT.
This final stage needs to be routed.

[OlliR]

Has anyone tested 200 Universes so far?
I guess it might also be a question of hardware - should be the 8xCore.

Highest number of universes I tested so far with pixelmad was 60. Worked fine on my MacBookPro. 25 fps without dropouts.

Right now planning an installation with 200 universes - and wondering if I should quote two media servers each running 100 universes rather than just one running 200 u.