Specifications

DVI Switching
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control for up to 16 users and 32 CPUs.
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Intelligent design
A London-based graphics design company needed its designers to
access multiple servers, each containging individual client’s
campaigns, including high-resolution artwork. The servers all had
DVI-D video outputs, meaning traditional KVM switches were unable
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o cope with either the interface or the resolutions. The graphical
content needed to be displayed accurately and some of the servers
were multi-head systems.
The Black Box DKM provided the perfect solution by offering lossless
video, transported digitally around the site. The DKM is a digital only
solution and so introduces no smearing or fuzzies, and causes no
attenuation to the signals transmitted and received. Each individual
user only had access to his or her servers and security was maintained
through password protection. Reliability was provided through the
DKM’s dual power supply, and a link to the external SNMP
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anagement platform provided regular updates on the system status.
Not only that, the DKM’s DDC and EDID support ensured that
whatever resolution was set on each server, the monitors would sync
perfectly every time.
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Clear for landing
A large International airport required a method for providing a radar
video feed through to the air traffic controllers. Due to the size of the
airport, the distance across the airport from the radar station to the
air traffic controllers was significant. The customer was concerned
about interference from the radar, along with cable attenuation, and
problems they had previously experienced with cable characteristics
changing in different weather conditions.
The Black Box DKM provided the airport with the solution they
required by offering high quality lossless video, over both single
mode and multimode fibre. Fibre is impervious to radar interference,
cable attenuation and varying weather conditions whilst also
providing the required bandwidth to travel the necessary distances.
The DKM provided crystal clear video reliably and securely.
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Picture perfect
A large studio in London, offering pre and post production to clients,
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equired a matrix switch offering very high quality video from
multiple servers, and offering the flexibility to support different user
groups. The studios used were changing daily, and their customers
required access to the servers, from whichever suite they were
working in. Security needed to be integrated as to restrict one film
company, from looking at another company’s work.
Utilising a fully digitised transport system, the DKM Matrix Switch
offers high quality full high-definition, audio and serial, up to 140
metres over CATx cabling, or up to 10Km over single mode fibre. Each
user has an individual profile which provides their access rights and
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sers can only ever see the servers they are allowed to see. This gave
the customer the flexibility he needed to offer his customers the
ability to use any of the studios available and still access all their data
and film securely.
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The Matrix - in high definition
A large, remote data centre required a solution for its new high end
servers that only came with a DVI-D digital video output. All the
servers were set at different resolutions and they had experienced
issues with previous KVM switches being able to cope with the range
of resolutions output from the large number of servers. They had
several different user groups requiring access to different groups of
servers. Although security was not an issue, giving the users the access
to the correct server groups was.
The Black Box DKM Matrix Switch fully supports DDC, so each
individual monitor is provided with the correct EDID information to
sync correctly. This enables each monitor to sync correctly with each
server every time. Each user has their own access list with gives them
the access rights to their particular servers. Wherever they log on in
the building, they always see their list of servers and only their list of
servers.