Hello
I've never personally built an advanced network, but recently my homelab has grown significantly and I'd like to move those noisy racks to the nearby house.
I would need networking which is easy, but I would also move my two desktops which both require AT LEAST 3 displays, usb2 switch for keyboard and mouse and usb 3+/something hubs for faster stuff like usb ssds etc. So, we're talking about at least 6 separate channels of data that I need(3 4k display links, 1 slow usb2 switch link, 2 usb3+ links). And that is likely expected to grow.
Ideally I would love to pack everything, networking, video, usb devices into just one single fiber cable(well, actually two because of LC duplex connection). I'll probably have 2 dedicated server systems for that with 2-port 100g mellanox5 cards that will do most of the vlan and such magic to split it onto the further network appliances in their respected locations.
During this week I did a lot of research essentially ending up with idea that I need something like HDMI-over-IP or HDBaseT-over-IP solution. For 1080p there seems to be some cheap solutions on amazon which do work over regular switches(or rather, I expect them to work in my case, if I'd just properly route them through isolated ports on the managed switches on both sides or something like that), but for 4k I don't know if I'd find anything.
Do you think it's possible to combine all that stuff into just one fiber connection without a need to buy way too many converters and mikrotik switches..? Those things do get darn hot. Do you think it's at all possible? I'm rather new to this field.
If so, can you recommend some HDMI/DP, USB extenders for this job that you've tested? I've already contacted FS dot com on their HDMI 4k30fps extenders but they don't talk ethernet so only direct connection is possible they said. That's extra fiber link I don't need.
While my budget is broad and I do have quite some leeway to consider broad amount of options I'd like to at least keep it as simple as possible, with as less "heaters" as possible.
Can anyone share their experience with any particular extenders which work over ethernet and therefore can be routed/switched normally using managed ethernet switches?
The reason I want to do it this way is pretty simple - VNC and likes would not permit me to offload the processing, I would need powerful machine just to use VNC for displaying something like 8k desktop and watching youtube, and there are security considerations for the VNC client machine which further complicate things. A/V signal like HDMI/DP carried over an isolated ports on a managed switches appears to be a safer and simplier and faster solution with near-zero lag.
Thanks
I've never personally built an advanced network, but recently my homelab has grown significantly and I'd like to move those noisy racks to the nearby house.
I would need networking which is easy, but I would also move my two desktops which both require AT LEAST 3 displays, usb2 switch for keyboard and mouse and usb 3+/something hubs for faster stuff like usb ssds etc. So, we're talking about at least 6 separate channels of data that I need(3 4k display links, 1 slow usb2 switch link, 2 usb3+ links). And that is likely expected to grow.
Ideally I would love to pack everything, networking, video, usb devices into just one single fiber cable(well, actually two because of LC duplex connection). I'll probably have 2 dedicated server systems for that with 2-port 100g mellanox5 cards that will do most of the vlan and such magic to split it onto the further network appliances in their respected locations.
During this week I did a lot of research essentially ending up with idea that I need something like HDMI-over-IP or HDBaseT-over-IP solution. For 1080p there seems to be some cheap solutions on amazon which do work over regular switches(or rather, I expect them to work in my case, if I'd just properly route them through isolated ports on the managed switches on both sides or something like that), but for 4k I don't know if I'd find anything.
Do you think it's possible to combine all that stuff into just one fiber connection without a need to buy way too many converters and mikrotik switches..? Those things do get darn hot. Do you think it's at all possible? I'm rather new to this field.
If so, can you recommend some HDMI/DP, USB extenders for this job that you've tested? I've already contacted FS dot com on their HDMI 4k30fps extenders but they don't talk ethernet so only direct connection is possible they said. That's extra fiber link I don't need.
While my budget is broad and I do have quite some leeway to consider broad amount of options I'd like to at least keep it as simple as possible, with as less "heaters" as possible.
Can anyone share their experience with any particular extenders which work over ethernet and therefore can be routed/switched normally using managed ethernet switches?
The reason I want to do it this way is pretty simple - VNC and likes would not permit me to offload the processing, I would need powerful machine just to use VNC for displaying something like 8k desktop and watching youtube, and there are security considerations for the VNC client machine which further complicate things. A/V signal like HDMI/DP carried over an isolated ports on a managed switches appears to be a safer and simplier and faster solution with near-zero lag.
Thanks
