Stagehand 101: The Ultimate Guide to the Galaxy of Training

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Last month I was working on a show when a weird problem blindsided me. It was a corporate event with a couple hundred lights on eight universes of DMX, and we were using sACN, which is a protocol that relies on an Ethernet network to send DMX data from the console to the fixtures. You would think that any network switch would work, but does it really?

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