User guide

Matrox Avio Series – User Guide 7
How it works
Matrox Avio consists of a transmitter unit and a receiver unit connected by a fiber optic cable. The
transmitter unit connects to the computer using a USB cable and two (2) male-to-male PS/2 cables
(one for the keyboard and one for the mouse). The receiver unit connects to your transmitter unit
through a duplex LC-LC fiber optic cable. You can connect peripheral devices (such as a keyboard, a
mouse, and monitors) to either or both your transmitter and your receiver. Connecting to both
requires two (2) sets of peripheral devices.
A Matrox Avio environment is made up of four (4) areas defined around its transmitter and receiver
units:
 Host – Connections between the host system and the transmitter unit. The computer is
the only host device. You must connect the video output of your graphics card to the
video in connectors on your tramsitter unit and your computer to the main USB
connector on your transmitter unit. To use the sound connectors at the front of your
transmitter or receiver units, you also need to connect the sound input and output of
your computer to the transmitter unit.
Host connections require male-to-male cables with the proper connectors.
 Local – Connections to the transmitter unit to control the host system. These
connections are optional. Local devices can be a keyboard, a mouse, monitors, sound,
and USB devices.
 Optical – Connection through a fiber optic cable between the Avio transmitter and the
receiver units.
Local
Host
Optical
Remote