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G&D: KVM and broadcast
go hand-in-hand
As the broadcast industry continues to en-
ter an era of IT and IP, keyboard, video and
mouse (KVM) technology will continue to
grow in prominence because of its ability
to provide flexibility in systems control and
operation, says Jochen Bauer, marketing
director, Guntermann & Drunck (G&D).
This is why the German company is exci-
ted to be back at BroadcastAsia to showcase
its range of KVM solutions to broadcasters
in the region who are moving beyond tradi-
tional broadcast systems.
At booth 4R2-05, one of the company’s
key highlights is the DP-Vision-IP KVM
extender. Comprising a transmitter and a
receiver, DP-Vision-IP supports DisplayPort
video resolutions up to 2560x1600 at 60Hz
or 3840x2160 at 30Hz, and is able to be
integrated with other G&D systems.
Supporting broadcast, control and auto-
mation systems, the DP-Vision-IP offers
“unlimited transmission distance”, with up
to 100m between two active network com-
ponents. The KVM extender also enables
automatic video optimisation for effects such
as tearing, jerking, latency and hard-eye co-
ordination, while transmission is compressed,
visually lossless, pixel-perfect and with ideal
hand-eye coordination.
While there may not be many 4K/Ultra
HD (UHD) or 8K deployments in Asia-Pacific,
the interest to find out more about these
technologies is emerging from countries
such as Japan and South Korea, notes Bauer.
Therefore, even if you are not ready to
offer 4K/UHD or 8K services, Bauer invites
visitors to check out the company’s Display-
Port KVM extender — the DP1.2-VisionXG.
Equipped with the ability to extend com-
puter signals via fibre optics over distances
up to 10,000m, the DP1.2-VisionXG features
support for 4K/UHD resolutions at 60Hz. It
also provides the delivery of 8K resolutions at
30Hz using two video channels, and at 60Hz
using four video channels.
The system consists of a computer
module (transmitter) and a user module
(receiver), and in order to allow users to
achieve “perfect hand-eye coordination”, the
transmission of high-resolution DisplayPort
video signals is uncompressed, pixel-perfect
and lossless, according to G&D.
The dedicated transmission via optical
fibres offers sufficient bandwidth for an un-
compressed and pixel-perfect transmission
of 4K/UHD and 8K videos at 60Hz, as well
as for keyboard/mouse, RS232, USB2.0 and
audio signals, the company maintains.
The DP1.2-VisionXG also offers features
such as a screen-freeze function, a monitor-
ing function, a redundant power supply,
SNMP (Simple Network Management Pro-
tocol), and two network ports. It also uti-
lises the advantages offered by G&D’s HDIP
compression technology, which allows the
lossless transmission of video signals with a
resolution of 4K/UHD at 60Hz.
With HDIP, the DP1.2-VisionXG is able
to extend computer signals either via fibre
optics up to 10,000m or via CAT cables up
to 140m.
“Asia is growing to be a key market
for us as we see more demand for KVM
in the region, and we are confident that
BroadcastAsia2017 will be a successful show
for us once again,” Bauer concludes.
Jochen Bauer (left), marketing director,
Guntermann & Drunck, and Frank Nolken,
international area sales manager, Guntermann
& Drunck, welcoming visitors to check out the
company’s range of KVM solutions.