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Mura partners with American Portwell for large-scale video walls

June 29, 2012

Matrox Graphics Inc. has announced a partnership with American Portwell Technology Inc., a company in the embedded computing market, to launch the new Portwell M9020B 4U rackmount system for large-scale, highly functional video walls.

The Portwell M9020B has been jointly validated for use with up to 10 Matrox Mura MPX input/output display wall controller boards to support up to 40 full 1080p HD inputs and up to 40 full 1080p HD outputs from a single system. The Portwell system enables OEMs and system builders to create high-density video wall solutions for various markets including digital signage, mission critical control rooms, security and surveillance, and large public venues.

Using Matrox Mura video capture and display technology, the Portwell M9020B 4U rackmount system facilitates large-scale video wall designs. The system features a 10-slot, PCI Express Gen 2 x16 Portwell backplane to house the high-performance Mura MPX PCIe x16 Gen2 boards, with each leveraging 64 Gbit/sec duplex data transfer for full HD performance. Mura MPX display controller boards are multifunctional solutions capable of capturing, scaling, positioning and displaying a variety of input sources — including High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP)-compliant devices — across an array of monitors, projectors, cubes or tiles, the company said. The new Portwell system can also host other Mura solutions such as the Mura MPX-SDI video input/output board, and both the MPX-V16 and MPX-V8 analog capture SKUs, ensuring maximum I/O flexibility.

"American Portwell Technology is excited to partner with Matrox on developing the Portwell M9020B 4U rackmount video wall controller system," said Jack Lam, senior product marketing manager of American Portwell Technology Inc. "Our customers will benefit from the Portwell M9020B 4U rackmount system's outstanding performance in their high-end, greater-scale capture and display applications. Moreover, this integrated system solution will enable customers to speed up time-to-market by simplifying the implementation of their large-scale video display walls."

"Matrox sees a tremendous amount of potential with Portwell's latest video wall solution, as this provides OEMs and system integrators with a low-cost, high-performance value option to build truly amazing video wall systems," said Helgi Sigurdsson, product manager, Matrox Graphics Inc. "Incorporating Matrox Mura technology promotes the delivery of visually appealing and highly functional installations that will readily meet any and all customer requirements."

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