QubicaAMF BES X - Centers with more than 68 lanes or split-house

Scoring network BES X Installation Manual, Rev.9, Jun 2018
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5.3 - Centers with more than 12 lanes and up to 68
lanes or split-house
If the bowling center has more than 12 lanes and up to 68 lanes, or if the lanes are divided in two or more
groups, additional scoring network switches that act as slaves are needed.
The lanes’ groups must be equally balanced in homogeneous groups. QubicaAMF supplies the additional
switches and the network cables.
All of the network switches supplied by QubicaAMF for this configurations have 8 network ports.
The connections for the main scoring network switch are:
 1 port for the home-run cable;
 1 port for the MMS switch;
 1 port for the Q-DAC switch;
 5 ports for the slave scoring network switches.
Always connect the Single channel video server to a slave scoring network switch, so the slave switch where
the Single channel video server is connected must never exceed the number of 12 lanes (six 4HD/5HD-HUB
units) connected, while the maximum number of lanes for the other four slave switches is 14 (seven
4HD/5HD-HUB units) connected. All of these facts poses the limit to 68 lanes.
When multiple switches are involved it is mandatory not to connect any 4HD/5HD-HUB directly to the main
scoring network switch. Between each 4HD/5HD-HUB and the Front Desk PC there must always be the
same number of switches, and these switches must never exceed the number of two (refer to table
T20.094).
The 4HD/5HD-HUB units have to be connected to the slave scoring network switch via standard patch
network cables. Refer to tables T.20.079 and T.20.096 for standard installations or to table T.20.082 if XLi
pinspotters with safety kit are present for the correct patch cables’ length.
If the customer purchases only the lanes then buy the MMS Digital system, TCS, Q-COM or single channel
video server in a later time after that the installation has been made and these rules have not been
followed, it will result in a complete rewiring of the scoring network.
Example: a bowling center with 34 lanes is split into three sub-centers, two with 14 lanes and the other
with 6 lanes. QubicaAMF supplies the main scoring network switch, the three additional switches, two kits
of cables for a 14 lanes center, one kit for a 6 lanes center, three 50 feet – 30m. patch network cable (one
each additional network switch), one Cat.5e 300 feet – 100m solid cable coil and two Cat.5e wall mounting
boxes.
The slave switches must be connected to the main scoring network switch in UPLINK mode. UPLINK mode is
automatically set in switches supplied by QubicaAMF, other switches may need a manual setting.
QubicaAMF suggests the installation of a cable conduit along the whole length of the curtain wall, to
accommodate the network cables.