SmartAVI releases new plug-and-play switch
September 7, 2010
SmartAVI Inc., a provider of digital signage and video/audio/control-signal distribution and switching over UTP/STP and fiber optic cable, recently announced the release of a new DVI-D switch, the RDU-2P.
The RDU-2P is a two-Port DVI-D and USB 1.1 switch. It can extend DVI-D and USB 1.1 signals up to 275 feet over two STP cables. Designed in cooperation with studio engineers, the RDU-2P has both a local switch as well as a remote switch. This design allows users in a studio environment to switch between two computers without having to go to their physical location.
The RDU-2P transmitter and receiver both have an integrated switch that allows the user to switch between the two computers locally or from the remote location.
The RDU-2P features fully transparent USB 1.1 support, allowing it to work with any USB 1.1 device. It supports DVI-D resolutions up to 1920x1200 and is compatible with Mac, PC and Linux operating systems.
With its DDC learning capability, the RDU-2P is fully plug-and-play. DDC provides plug-and-play capability to displays. When plugging a display into a computer, the DDC table in the display tells the computer the optimal resolution to use. In order to preserve this plug-and-play capability, the RDU-2P has integrated DDC learning.