INDIANA UNIVERSITY STREAMLINES VIDEOWALL CABLING WITH GEFEN

摘要

Indiana University's state-of-the-art Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL) is where students, teachers, academics, and on-campus professionals go to explore innovative applications of visual technologies. Supporting visualization-related activities in research, education, and community-related outreach for the university, AVL provides access to progressive hardware/software systems that assist teams in computing, designing, visualizing, simulating, and modeling 3D cyber systems. To produce flawless delivery of high-definition content to AVL's Science on a Sphere, AVL's UITS Project Manager and Team Lead, Chris Eller, chose Gefen Extender for HDMI 1.3 with Ethernet, which uses a single Cat-5 cable to send HDMI with 3DTV, Ethernet, and IR up to 100 meters. "We had a bit of a challenge here because even though the projectors are in the same building as the SOS, they are up to 150ft. apart," says Eller of the Science on a Sphere (SOS) display. "We installed four Gefen Extenders for HDMI 1.3 over Cat-5 with Ethernet to deliver signals from the projectors to our SOS with great results. We were able to use network cabling, which is much easier to maintain and service, and more economical than fiber."