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title: "Front and Rear Panel Overview"
slug: "la5291-front-and-rear-panel-overview"
updated: 2024-11-04T13:39:25Z
published: 2024-11-04T13:39:25Z
canonical: "docs.telosalliance.com/la5291-front-and-rear-panel-overview"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Front and Rear Panel Overview

## LA-5291 Front Panel

![Figure 1 - Front panel](https://cdn.document360.io/57e3cd80-d493-453c-9672-ad1b043dadc3/Images/Documentation/panel(24).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-07T18%3A04%3A58Z&se=2026-11-07T19%3A04%3A58Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=vSCrwBxSogsiITsjMVS%2BWEZOdd09LDYU%2BCeef0XZIiM%3D)

Figure 1 - Front panel

LA-5291 front panel features include:

- **Reset button** for restarting the unit from the front panel (1A)
- **Four status LEDs** indicating the **status of each power supply** (1B, 1C), the **overall status** of the unit (1D), and **sync** for the reference clock (1E)
- A **color LCD display** to show status and basic configuration parameters (1F)
- A **five-button navigation cluster** with Left, Right, Up, and Down arrows plus a green “OK” button (1G)
- A **USB port** used for software updates (1H)

The front panel is used for the initial setup and configuration including setting the IP address of the Control Ethernet port. Additional configuration is accomplished via the remote user interface.

## LA-5291 Rear Panel

![Figure 2- Rear panel](https://cdn.document360.io/57e3cd80-d493-453c-9672-ad1b043dadc3/Images/Documentation/callouts(29)(1).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-07T18%3A04%3A58Z&se=2026-11-07T19%3A04%3A58Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=vSCrwBxSogsiITsjMVS%2BWEZOdd09LDYU%2BCeef0XZIiM%3D)

Figure 2- Rear panel

The rear panel of the LA-5291 contains the following connections:

- Two **RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet connections**, one for network remote control (2A) and one for AES67 I/O (2B)
- **3Gb/s HD/SD-SDI input and output** (2C) on female BNC connectors
- **Quad-Link SDI** or **MADI I/O** (2D) - optional
- Five **AES-3 I/O connections** (2E) on female BNC connectors
- Parallel **GPI/O control port** (female DB-15) for five inputs and five outputs (2F)
- Two **IEC power inlets** for the redundant internal universal auto-ranging power supplies (2G)

> [!NOTE]
> **Note -** Although the hardware is present for two independent SDI I/O paths, only the first SDI I/O is active at this time. The second path will be enabled in a future firmware update.