High-Performance KVM: The Key to Flexible, Efficient Workflows
Hello everyone. I am Dion Cook from Aixa and welcome to high performance KVM the keys to flexible efficient workflows presented by Paul Mott. This webinar is brought to you by our sponsor today Raritin. But before I hand the presentation over to Paul, there are a couple of housekeeping items that I must address first. For you CTS holders, uh,
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Paul, I believe you're on mute. Thanks, Dan. Appreciate that. Um, thanks everybody. Uh so as Dion alluded to at the beginning here, we're going to talk a little bit about high performance KVM um and how that uh will certainly impact your lives and and end users lives as well. So just to give a quick introduction to myself, my name is Paul Mott again. Uh I'm the director of
product management for the KVM and remote access business of the Raren brand. So, those of you who who may also do business with the Lrand AV division, um we're slightly different. We are we are the data center or IT division, but you know, as as as our markets continue to uh to converge here, um I'm sure that that uh some of you may have worked with with both divisions. So, I've actually been with Lrand for uh 13 years now. Um I previously came from the Lrand AV division and then transitioned over to um to the data center division. Uh have
experience in lots of different types of AV technologies uh signals, signal routing, uh networking uh and all kinds of different uh AV infrastructure as well as uh data data center infrastructure. So happy to be with you guys. Thank you again for taking some time out of your day or maybe sitting down during your lunch break to uh to listen a little bit more about high performance KVM and earn some of those credits while you're at it. Okay, as a quick overview of the agenda, we're going to just have a a refresher and and an intro into into KVM, high performance KVM. A lot of you guys may already be familiar with this, but it's always good just in case. We're going to talk a little bit about how high performance KVM is used in the market today by our end users. And then we're going to talk
about the evolution of the market, kind of where we see things are going, how users are using this technology, and what we should expect to see next. Um, then we'll spend a little bit of time on the Rarin high performance KVM uh products for uh AV applications and how uh how we're a little bit different in the market than maybe some of the traditional products out there. and then we'll wrap things up and we'll certainly do a Q&A. If you guys have any questions, feel free to enter those in um under the QA section as as Dion mentioned. Okay, so just a a quick refresher. Most people know in this in this business know what KVM is. They've
maybe installed KVM or used KVM in the past. But for those who might be new to the industry, maybe haven't used a a KVM switch or installed one before, um it's a it really is an acronym. Stands for keyboard video mouse. And really at its simplest form, it's a device that allows the connection to multiple computers and allows the use of just one keyboard, mouse, and monitor um sometimes multiple monitors to to access all of those different computer sources uh very efficiently and conveniently. Um now, if
we look at kind of the history of KVM, it's it's fairly interesting. It really started way back when in the 80s um when all signals were analog. We didn't have to worry about any any digital switching or anything of that nature. So, we had these very unsophisticated rotary dial style KVM. Um if there's any old old-timers on the webinar, um you'll know what I'm talking about. These things were pretty prevalent back in the day. I remember I
used to use one uh back in the 90s uh just switching between different computers. I actually had a four- port one, so I was a little bit more more sophisticated. I had a four- port rotary dial switch to switch between all my different computers and servers that I had um at my desk.
Um, so very simple technology, literally just a bunch of wires in a box and you'd flip flip a switch and it would connect you from one computer to the other and you could essentially use your keyboard mouse like you would without having to right attach a separate monitor, a separate key set of keyboard mice to all the individual machines. Um now when we move into the '9s this is when kind of the matrix style KVM uh came came into into the picture. Now the reason for this was right as you know the the dawn of the personal computer age um started there was also uh you know a requirement from a business standpoint to start housing more information on servers. So that
meant more infrastructure to manage. That meant there needed to be a way to be able to kind of solve that challenge. Like what do I do if I have a hundred servers? Obviously I'm not going to buy a 100 monitors and mice and keyboard and plug these things in all over the place where all my computers are stored. So that really gave birth to the matrix style KVM. Um it could be a single user,
it could be multiple users. It's really all cablebased. So, you know, a combination of um maybe, you know, proprietary uh uh you know, DB25 style connectors that get connected up to this um uh and what have you. And and this was this was very popular for a very long time in the '9s. Um and some of
these are actually still deployed today, believe it or not, on legacy systems. Um I've seen some out there in in the wild. It's kind of shocking, but but they're out there. Um, moving into 2000, this is
where, you know, really the the information age boom started and just the requirement for more devices on the network. Um, you know, really high density server cabinets um, you know, started to come into the picture. um data centers started to scale massively um right as as the dotcom boom happened and you had all of these different businesses and websites and companies just adopting more technology. So that means they needed a better solution to manage all of those sources. And that's
where IP KVM came into play. And and really what IPKVM is, it's a it's kind of a a departure from a localized style cable KVM that might be um only accessible just to the the users really that are uh around the equipment. and it allowed remote users to be able to connect up to the internet um and then down to their their infrastructure whether it was broadcast or IT infrastructure AV or it um they could be able to do that right using basically just a web browser um or laptop uh you know on a laptop or on a desktop regardless of where they were. So, it
was really kind of a a watershed moment for the KVM industry, right? Moving things onto the network, allowing users to be able to, right, remotely connect um and and just the scale, right? We went from, you know, maybe a handful of computers connected to a KVM switch to, you know, dozens or even hundreds uh of of connections per KVM switch or per KVM switch infrastructure. So this is still very much useful today. Um you know Raritin is was one of the leaders or still is the leader in this market and uh you know continues to sell this to both um the AV market and the data center and IT space as well. Now a as we kind of went from the 2000s into the 2010s uh you know I'm sure all of you guys are are are very very familiar with the right the analog to digital transformation and what happened there.
So basically we had all of this audio and video data um that went digital necessitating the need for really a next generation KVM and that's where high performance KVM comes into play. Now you know it started off simply but again as as most most things do it scaled very quickly to the point where you know now in the market we have you know some of these large scale um cabinetbased uh you know KVM switches that can handle really high resolutions are you know really low latency um and and that's really what the market uh knows and loves today and that that's what's being installed out there. But, you know, as we get into the 2020s, we've started to see a shift and really it's it's it's moving back towards IP KVM and some of the benefits that it brings. And we'll talk a little bit more about that uh a little bit later in the presentation. So, this is kind of just a
quick history of KVM for those that that weren't aware or or maybe forgot. It's really come a long way since, you know, 40 years ago with these really old style analog dials to, you know, to network connected devices to really high performance uh style KVM then and then really back again to IP connected devices. So where is KVM used? Number of different types of infrastructure depend on KVM every day. Um for Raritin, you know, our bread and butter really is in the technology space. So we deal with um you know customers large to small that have a lot of different needs whether it's a hardware test lab where maybe they're working on the next generation of processors, motherboards, video cards, uh any type of electronic device, you know, in some way, shape, or form will likely have a KVM connected to it in the test lab. So they can do a number of tests across, you know, hundreds or even thousands of test devices as they're getting ready for the market. Of
course, general IT administration, that's where KVM started. I won't I won't, you know, I won't belabor that. Um, we've also seen a lot of use in industrial manufacturing. Uh, the the need to have KVM or really the need to remove people from certain environments has really been um a boon for for KVM and manufacturing. um as you know plants
become larger, as manufacturing equipment becomes more sophisticated, um there's been more and more of a need for for KVM to you know replace people or allow technicians to be able to remotely monitor, remotely access and and you know reduce uh meanantime to repair on some of this equipment to make sure that uh operations continue smoothly. And then of course various types of highdensity infrastructure again more IT focused um and I'm not going to get into that. And on the right hand of this slide you'll see you know this is really going to be the the core of the discussion the upper right hand corner high performance for broadcast AV command and control. Um that's where you
guys live and breathe every day and we'll dive much much deeper into that. Um but as a side note uh healthc care is also another emerging space. Um and some of you may may get some exposure to that as well working with you know healthc care focused end users. KVM uh is starting to uh you know revolutionize the health care industry. We all know that healthcare is a little bit behind on its digital transformation probably um uh you know bringing up the rear in that in that that respect but they're starting to look at KVM to augment some of the things they do not just in their uh infrastructure but in their patient space as well. maybe an interesting
topic for another webinar in the future. Okay, so high performance KVM really why is it extremely important to the market? It's really defined by environments that have a need for high resolution, low latency for missionritical tasks. Now, some some of you may already have some of these types of uh of install environments and and you know, this is certainly not all of them. There are a number of different types, but air traffic control, broadcast, and military command and control are really three typical scenarios where high performance KVM continues to be sold and continues to be used and appreciated by the end users. Um, you know, and it and
it's really about the ability to first present a tremendous amount of information to the users. Uh, being able to control various systems, um, being able to quickly shift between systems and be able to react very quickly, right? And as an air traffic control military command, I mean, it's really could be potentially life and death situations. So, you know, the the amount of latency is critical. You can't be laggy. You can't misclick something. You have to take action. Um, and you have to consume information and react to it um with the utmost importance. And the same
thing goes for broadcast. Maybe not life or death situations, but there's certainly a financial impact, right? If something happens and the screen goes blank, that's lost money, right? there's likely going to be some sort of uh potential financial impact or legal impact uh if you're not uh maintaining your systems and operating it to the utmost efficiency. So again, there are numerous types of applications for high performance KVM. Um, and and really it's all about being able to access a tremendous amount of data across numerous systems, being able to control those systems, being able to react quickly, um, and being able to perform, right, all of the tasks that you need to perform in the most efficient way as possible. Uh, now, couple of other
applications on here I didn't mention that kind of are emerging that are certainly out there. things like esports, um financial like trading desks, um and and again really anywhere where time and resolution are kind of the the the critical factors at play there. Okay. So, what does a typical high performance KVM system look like? It's generally defined by a switch at the center of the screen here and a combination of transmitters connected to your computer sources and receivers connected to displays. Now, some products from different manufacturers can vary. Sometimes you can maybe have multiple displays at every receiver.
Maybe you can have multiple uh target computers at every transmitter. But really what makes all of this work is the switch in between all of them. Now, KVM switches kind of started off as this proprietary technology, but really most KVM switches now really rely or at least high performance caves rely on some type of um network fabric. And in most cases now, it's some sort of 10 gigabit network um switching type of device. And
certainly the switch will have other capabilities and functionality as well. Um it's not listed here or shown but you know there could also be some type of management interface that layers on top of this so that uh you can uh provide access uh privileges to certain users to certain devices so they can get to what they can get to and maybe not access what they shouldn't. Now again, right, these systems have been around for a while. They're great. Super low latency, high resolution, right? 4K, some can maybe even do 8K, 4K, 5K, up to 8K. And and really, it provides all you need from a multi-system access standpoint. Now, of course, there there's also some cons to this. Now, just because it uses
a a kind of network switch backbone doesn't necessarily mean that it's routable or accessible uh remotely always from the network. Um, in some cases, it could be completely isolated unless you have some sort of, you know, remote accessory or dongle or or add-on product um that you plug in here. It's not routable. So, you can't take a um you know the input uh from a you know like a 4K target computer, route it over a network and have your receiver right on a in maybe a different floor of a building or a different um command and control center. Typically, it's very
very localized. Um and the reason for that is the high amount of bandwidth that these systems use, right? That's the trade-off with for low latency and and super high resolutions. There is some, you know, hardware compression and or hardware encoding and decoding that's happening on this, but it's still a tremendous amount of bandwidth. Um, and sometimes you can be limited in the amount of displays that you can connect uh on your receiver as well. um if you
need to add more displays depending on the application you need to maybe throw more hardware more equipment uh at the problem but very typical type of high performance KVM setup a switch kind of uh you know a KVM switch um uh is the foundation to this and then you can scale with transmitters and receivers uh in your environment as needed um and then once you run out of run out of spots on your KVM switch you buy another one and then continue to scale LSD. Okay. So, how is the market evolving? So, you know, we we we covered the the current high performance KVM and and what it can do, but the challenges that that are coming um are and and maybe are already even here are posing a problem to kind of the traditional um traditional architecture. And really this is this is really kind of keyed in on these four areas that that I'm going to talk about it here. The first being the fact that um you know target sources or target computers the data that you're you're trying to access might not always be in this the location that uh that where the h the high performance KVM is. It might be in
a different cabinet, might be on a different network, might be in a completely different location. Um, and you might need to be able to access that remotely as well. So, meaning you might want to be able to remote in and collaborate with some of the you some of the users may want to remotely access and collaborate with some of the on-site personnel, whether it's a sporting event or command and control environment uh for the military. Um, the need for remote access is becoming absolutely critical and you know, we hear this from from end users all of the time. And on top of that, workflows are
becoming more complex. You know, the the amount of overlays and data and, you know, analytics and and really the the the typical user of a high performance KVM gets bombarded with with things they have to do day-to-day. They have to create tons of different macros. they have to start looking at ways they can automate things so that they can make sure that um all of the data that gets presented on all of the different screens um is as how it should be um and they can react to it and respond to it um the most efficient way possible without fumbling through changing sources um and uh and and and generally just wasting time overall. And of course, last but certainly not least, budgets will continue to be a challenge for everyone. Uh especially in this
environment. Um who knows what's going to happen with tariffs and um there there's just going to be a general need to explore lots of different types of technology um to be able to solve all of the challenges that that the end users, you know, are going to continue to throw at us. Okay. So since we know the market's evolving, where where do we think it's going to go? And you know, I I'll share a little bit from our perspective since we we get a chance and an opportunity to talk with a lot of end users um uh and integrators uh and and resellers and and kind of really a number of different people that that influence um specification and buying decisions. So you know, the the first bullet shouldn't be a surprise. I think this trend started a very long time ago. Um really once the analog to
digital trans uh transformation happened in the AV space um it kind of opened the floodgates for the potential for um you know IPbased products to to really start to to emerge and you know you're going to start to see more and more of this and it's just going to be uh a continual push to having uh you know these two real industries merge together um and work in unison. Now, of course, high performance KVM, it's not going to disappear overnight. You know, it it's going to continue to be used, but what we think and what we see is, you know, high performance KVM over IP is really going to be kind of the next the next step in evolution for for the KVM market. And really, it's going to live side by side. It's gonna it's going to help solve some of these challenges that we just talked about.
And it's going to be a new way to deploy high performance KVM um that you know expands the possibilities um and maybe changes the way end users and integrators like yourself think about how KVM can be used. Um and of course right as costs you know become more and more of a uh of an important issue right the need for dedicated uh niche infrastructure to deploy technology uh is going to become a challenge it's going to become questioned um people are going to ask well why can't I just put this on my network right so high performance KVM infrastructure again not going away but at some point there's going to be a shift to kind of more standard off-the-shelf network switches and you know a move onto the production network versus having more isolated cordoned off parts of the network that just operate for a specific function which is high performance KVM. And then you know of course there there's tons of different types of of you know technologies out there for encoding and decoding audio and video. Um I'm certainly not an expert. Um, I'm sure there's probably a handful of you on here that that are. Um, we're going
to continue to see this evolve. There's a bunch of different competing formats out there right now. Um, one of the more interesting ones, at least from from from our standpoint, is JPEG XS. So, if
there's any uh if there's any uh uh you know, interested parties, I' I'd highly suggest checking that out. There's some interesting work that's going on around there. And you know what we're what we're starting to hear is that with some of the evolution around these, right, we're gonna we're gonna see some of these compression technologies really start to compete with some of the legacy technologies used today that drive really our high latency u or excuse me, low latency, high performance um KVM infrastructure. And of course, as things start to move more onto the network, as things become kind of more um consolidated, uh you know, there's going to be a lot of different opportunities um to adapt KVM to different environments. Um some of which I talked about, some of which maybe we don't even know about yet, but I'm I'm certain you guys are going to have, you know, these these end user problems come up. and KVM will always be a a very um uh useful tool moving forward and being able to really make sure that enduser workflows in their various types of environments continues to be efficient and continues to evolve along um with what they need to get done. Okay.
So how does Raritin play in the high performance KVM space and and and really what are the differences um in our product and and kind of how it works. So, you know, Raritin has really always been a uh high performance over high performance KVM overIP solution really going back to some of our earlier um IPbased products and then you know now with our you know enterprise KX3 uh KVM switches. I put transmitter and receiver on on here just because um we call them very different things. Again, we come from more of the
the technology world versus AV. Um, so these mean kind of different things depending on the audience you're talking to, but hopefully this makes sense. So, we have a number of different types of uh of products here. On the transmitter side, again, our KX3 for multiple types of devices. 1080p, that's the max. And then for 4K workflows, we have our KX4 101. That's a single port device that gets connected up to a target computer.
On the receiver side, we have two different types of workstations uh that the or I should say user stations is what we refer to them as. Now, we work a little bit differently than the rest of the um uh high performance KVM market and where our user station or our receiver is really built out of the box to be, you know, completely customizable. Um the workspaces uh can be moved around. Uh we could support up to four screens per device. uh and then
we can also have we can also link these together and I'll talk a little bit more about that uh on a later slide. So, the biggest difference that you'll see here is that instead of a proprietary KVM switch that kind of supports all of these different transmitters and receivers, you can use just a standard traditional single gigabit uh uh LAN type connection to all these different devices without having right the the isolation of a typical high performance KVM system. So, that's a huge value right there. Just being able to use potentially existing network infrastructure, not deploy more hardware. Um, huge benefit and it still works very well. Another huge benefit is just remote access in general. So, on a
lot of high performance systems, you need to buy some sort of add-on management piece um or what have you to be able to enable remote access. All of Raritin's high performance KVM products come with remote access built in. So on the KX KX3 or KX4 transmitter devices, these can be accessed remotely given uh given the right permissions um regardless of the need of a uh of a receiver being part of the equation. So if a user needs to jump on their you know their computer, their laptop to collaborate on something to just even to just monitor something remotely um that we have the ability to do that with zero additional cost to the system installed. And then of course right as these these systems can become more complex and you need to right secure them uh we have our command center secure gateway that provides kind of a single point of of authorization and access to the KVM infrastructure. Um and
it also allows you to a number of different management activities as well. You can you know batch types of jobs for firmware updates. Um yeah, you can do things like certificate management um and a whole host of other types of uh of kind of higher level administration um for the for the the the high performance KVM uh uh install. And and just last thing I' I'd like to note here, right? All of our uh uh you know, all of our uh access to all of our KVM switches or our transmitters.
Um again, uh uses uh really highly secured uh if needed uh uh compression uh really it's really military grade. We use FIP style compression algorithms. So for highly secured military types of environments, we check that box. Um and then we we also have the ability to um you know ratchet settings up for really high performance environments. Um so if you need to get the best performance possible, you can adjust the settings may consume a little bit more bandwidth but again compared to some of the other solutions out there. Um it is a fraction of the bandwidth used and like I I continue to mention it can be uh readily used on production networks that that exist out there.
Okay. So again some of the benefits you know really efficient way to deploy high performance KVM um doesn't require dedicated switch can use existing network infrastructure or a sing or uh you know standard gigabit Ethernet uh type switches that are that are pretty ubiquitous out in the market today. Um you know ba bandwidth is is really important when you're running on these production networks. can't hog up all the bandwidth um that might be potentially used for other types of systems and and purposes. So again, we have the ability to to fine-tune that throttle um up or down based on the environment and uh it's a it's a very nice way to um you know augment some of these potential uh legacy high performance KVM systems out there. A high performance KVM is pretty scalable, but when you have when you move to an IPbased solution, you just get even more flexibility and scalability. You're not
dependent on uh standard switches that are really only located one place. Essentially, wherever there is a network drop, you can connect a target computer or a transmitter. Uh and then wherever you need to put a user workstation, you can connect a um uh a user station or receiver device. Uh again, connect the network and set up the right permissions and then the user can start to access all of their CA high performance KVM infrastructure. Um and certainly remote access, you know, as that becomes more important, it's just standard on all of the product. um no need for you know any
additional uh devices or add-ons. It comes standard out of the box um with every transmitter type device. You can tunnel in, you can do administration um without having to even uh be on site or like I said have some other ancillary way of doing that. And you know what we've seen uh also is uh you know the the really the the need for more budget friendly solutions out there. So you know high performance but
not a high price and you know with with this type of uh IPbased K high performance KVMO uh type system you know lower upfront cost if you can use that uh you know existing infrastructure um you also don't need any type of pointto-point type extender which can can be prevalent on some of these types of products like if you need to set up a workstation in another room you need to right run a fiber drop or an Ethernet drop somewhere. None of that is necessary as long as there's network connectivity. Um there's no need for any types of KVM extender types of devices. Um and again, uh this is all
category cable based, so no fiber, no transceivers. You can keep it simple and keep it low cost to meet maybe some of those budget requirements that end users might have. All right. So, to kind of just go a little bit deeper on our individual products that kind of uh uh you know make up a high performance KVM system. Again, our DKX4101 on the top here. Um
you know, this is a again a single port HDMI based uh type of product. It has a local console pass through. If for whatever reason you need to be or you'd like the user would like to be able to pass through um to maybe a local screen, keyboard, wherever the the equipment is stored, they have the option. Um but right, this is really the fundamental piece to the uh to the high performance KVM infrastructure. There's also some other interesting things on here. um you
know you know super fast virtual media uh which can be needed in some cases when transmitting files back and forth especially remotely. Um we also have terminal block for control. I won't get into all the details there but you can do a number of different things with the terminal block whether it's either connected to a remote switch um remote equipment or potentially to uh the target uh device that's being uh controlled as well. So again, it works completely independent of the receiver. So you do not need uh a a a user station or a receiver for this to work. You could literally once this is on the network, you could open up a laptop, a web browser, start a KVM session um directly to the device and um um that's a very very handy tool especially for the administration of some of these systems, right? having to roll trucks, getting on site um to be able to fix something is not ideal. Once the device is on the
network uh and you have the right permissions, you can just uh portal right into this uh uh right into the the high performance KVM infrastructure uh fix what needs to get get fixed and uh and move on with your day. I know a lot of you guys will will likely have service contracts. So, this is a huge benefit for you guys. Um and and we all know that the AV industry's kind of moved in that direction over the last uh last several years, right? Remote maintenance is key. Um we talked about the you know the
the the super low bandwidth that that our products uh consume. Again, it's really just a a testament to our uh compression technology that we've been developing over the last, you know, 20 years or so. uh at the advent of of IP KVM into the marketplace, we continue to evolve that and we continue to look at new technologies as they emerge. Um I do want to spend maybe just a few minutes talking about uh AV automation and an AI ready system. So we're one of the only
uh manufacturers on the market that actually has a KVM client SDK. So what does that mean? It's a software development kit that can basically programmatically access a target computer, perform a number of different functions like keyboard uh keystrokes, uh mouse clicks in various positions on the screen, screen capture, screen recording. So it's a it's a extremely useful tool that you can layer on top of the the high performance KVM infrastructure that allows the potential for AV automation. So taking maybe very complex workflows um that might not necessarily um uh be possible with with maybe some of the macros and and uh and and and some of the tools that are out there today. and allows you to completely automate those. Now, we also know that, you know, AI is a big buzzword and and everybody's talking about it. We've all seen the headlines
and, you know, how much growth there is in in in the market and data centers, what have you. Um but what's interesting is uh you know at the edge right where you know maybe you don't have a large language model where you need an entire data center to process you know request for I don't know some sort of you know weird AI generated image. Um there's there's there's a huge movement in right deploying AI smaller more compact models at the edge to be able to perform a number of different tasks across a number of different industries right AV is not going to be any different than you know say industrial manufacturing or um or or or IT um there's going to be opportunities out there um and if you have uh programming experience and you have developers you know, within, you know, maybe your shop or your company.
Um, this is a very useful tool. We've opened it up. It's publicly available. Um, you can download this uh on our uh KX4 support site. Uh, and we feel that this is going to be kind of a uh the next revolution uh in KVM, right? not just having that direct hardware access to a target, but having the ability to automate tasks and then eventually when AI is ready, being able to kind of unleash that on various uh high performance um KVM workflows that we know that are out there today and are becoming increasing complex, right? We know that that fewer people are going to have to do more moving forward and this is going to be a very very interesting tool. um for a number of different industries to uh to utilize. So, if
you're if you're a nerd like I am and you and you want to see what the possibilities are, definitely check that out. Um now, on the receiver side of things, we have our DKX4 um enhanced user station. This is essentially like a thin client as as most of these receivers are. Um our particular flavor is an AMD Ryzen powered uh device with Radeon graphics acceleration. So that
allows us four video outputs per device. Um, and it is 4K 60 capable. Um, it's very compact. The image might not do it
justice, but this is like one of those small high-performance desktop PCs that that you may have seen out there today. So, um, incredibly useful. It comes standard with a Vasa mount, so you can mount it behind monitors. Um, and it has some kind of interesting characteristics to it. The first one is that it's extremely scalable. Um, meaning you can link two devices together, use one set of displays, one keyboard, one mouse.
Um, and you can basically scale this depending on however many displays that you might have depending on the application. Um, since it's all softwarebased, it just works. You plug them together, click a few settings on the uh on the primary device, and now you can essentially just continue to expand your your work environment across however many displays that you need to.
Now, I will say that uh it it it will have some limitations depending on the uh the sources, right? You're not going to be able to just, you know, kind of infinitely um uh infinitely decode 4K 60 uh uh streams. So there are some limitations on that, but uh some of that is documented out in uh in in our in our support documentation if you're interested in more. Uh another interesting uh uh functionality of our user station or our receiver is has completely customizable workspaces. So it doesn't necessarily have kind of some of the the static um the static layouts that um you know that we know are are part of some of these high performance KVM systems. allows complete customization um and saving of workspaces. And then you can use hotkeys depending on your workflow, depending on the type of system that's being used to very quickly switch between um all of the different uh computers that you might be interfacing with. so that you
can really, you know, consume a tremendous amount of data and work on many different tasks at once um all through one single interface, one through one device. So that's what makes up uh kind of the foundation of our high performance KVM system. I know, I'm sorry, it's not more complex. It's two devices and then you can bring your own network switch and once everything's connected, you're basically ready to go. Okay, so just a couple of quick takeaways before we get into Q&A. Right, we know
the high performance KVM market isn't going anywhere. There will continue to be a need to have very low latency, very high resolution um direct computer access to be able to complete a number of different tasks across a number of different industries. But high performance KVM is going to evolve. It's going to become more IP connected and that's going to ultimately help you guys help the end users. There's going to be
problems out there that just aren't possible are aren't able to be solved using an isolated high performance KVM. There's going to be uh remote access that becomes uh increasingly important to end users, right? The ability to monitor and maintain some of these environments remotely, right? as as certain groups of people might get consolidated or moved around, right? You may not always have the right people uh on site all of the time needed to support some of these. And of course for you guys, it gives you an opportunity to continue to um you know support your your service level agreements that you might have with some of your end users. Again, you know, high performance
KVM currently runs on 10 gigabit networks, but it doesn't have to. It can run on single gigabit networks, standard production networks that are that are already out there today. As long as there's spots on a network switch, you can start to deploy high performance KVM over IP um adjacent to or alongside of some of the existing high performance KVM and high performance KVM will continue to allow um for you know just an increasing amount of systems that we we continue to see get thrown at uh thrown at us daytoday on some of these environments. Um, it's going to allow, right, uh, you know, especially once when when when they become more IP enabled, it'll allow it allow for increased collaboration. It'll allow for people to remote in that aren't necessarily on site. Um, and it's going
to reduce the amount of potential hardware that you need and allow you to scale more efficiently um, as you deploy these system. So, that's all I had for my presentation. I hope that this was informative, that this got you guys thinking a little bit about the potential options out there in the market um and how you can deploy high performance KVM uh in your day-to-day uh uh lives. So with that, I will open it up to questions. Um let me just over here. Uh so the first question
I have, does the KVM system need to be on its own VLAN? Great question. Um it does not so uh the the rarit and high performance KVM is completely routable. So it doesn't need to be isolated doesn't need to be on its own separate network. Um it can run on a standard 1
gigabit production network without having to be isolated without having to have um you know like I said that dedicated 10 gigabit um KVM switch infrastructure to be there. uh message or question from Andy. So, could you start with just one transmitter device connected to one source computer and then use a laptop and web browser to access that computer across an existing network? Yes, absolutely, Andy. It's good to see you.
I think we've spoken in the past, so it's good to see that uh that you're on. Um yes, absolutely. You do not necessarily need a receiver device. As long as the transmitter or the KVM switch uh is in place, it gets encoded and it can be accessed uh not only from a receiver or user station device, but it can be also accessed on a laptop, on a desktop, anywhere that a user has uh network access. Um and you know I would
just say uh you know with a lot of the advancements in a lot of our uh a lot of our laptops and desktops today I mean we have extremely powerful devices from just right five 10 years ago. So a lot of the decode can happen uh and you're not losing really any uh um uh you know any resolution and and it continues to be you know low latency. And that's all I had for the open questions. Um, happy to hang hang
on here for a few more minutes if anyone's still typing. But again, uh, you know, thank you guys very much. Uh, I hope you got, uh, you know, a little something out of this and how high performance KVM is is starting to evolve. And, you know, we're looking forward to, you know, participating in in maybe some more of these webinars and helping you guys uh, get some more credits in the near future.
Okay. Uh, I think that's it. Paul, thank you so much. And I'd like to thank all of our attendees for joining us on today's webinar, High Performance KVM, the key to flexible efficient workflows. This recording will be available on the AVIX website here at aixa.org/webinars within about 5 to
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