Distributed Video Systems can also consist of significantly larger solutions, which include multiple displays or monitors installed in multiple different rooms or locations throughout a home or business environment. While also still providing the ability to conceal all of the Audio – Video & System Control Equipment installed and centralized in a dedicated AV Equipment rack enclosure, in a specific room within the facility.
These Audio – Video equipment racks are typically installed within the dwelling or office in a dedicated closet, mechanical room, electrical room, etc. This centralized rack provides the central storage for all of the Audio – Video Source Components & System Control Equipment. All of the relevant AV source feeds and system control signals are then distributed from this central rack location throughout the entire building to all of the corresponding displays throughout the facility.
Each of these unique systems have multiple different distribution protocols in regards to Audio – Video data transmission, which can be accomplished by transmitting the signals over various different types of cabling and wiring infrastructures. This flexibility of being able to transmit AV signals over a range of various different types of cabling infrastructure options provides a unique approach which allows for the ability to accommodate any type of AV Distribution installation use cases or system requirements.
The most common types of wiring infrastructure that is utilized for Audio – Video distribution, from the AV source equipment head end to the desired display or monitor location, is Category 5e/6/6A/7/8 Network Cabling. Commonly referred to as Ethernet cable this particular copper based wiring infrastructure can be utilized for multiple different data transmission types. In this particular AV use case, the category grade structured copper wiring is used for transmitting HD & 4K video content, up to hundreds of feet throughout the building utilizing a specialized piece of AV data transmission equipment know as a Video Balun.
Video Baluns provide the ability to utilize various different types of cabling infrastructure, such as Category 6 (Cat6) Ethernet cable, to simulate a virtual HDMI cable which provides the ability to transmit HD & 4K video signals from the centralized AV Equipment head-end rack location to a display or monitor at distances reaching up to 250+ Feet.
With the recent advancements of 4K Video becoming a predominant standard for many TV programs and broadcasting protocols, and also in some new use cases the evolution of 8K Video content transmission. It has become quite bandwidth intensive and increasingly difficult in regards to providing Audio – Video distribution methods enabling the successful and stable transmission of these new high-throughput 4K video signals at the same distances of traditional HD video over Category Network Cabling infrastructures (Cat5e & Cat6). Longer 4K transmission Distances are still achievable utilizing Category Grade wiring, however to accomplish these longer distances of 4K video signal transmission, would require the use of higher grade Cat6A/7/8 wiring to reach 4K distribution distances of up to 100+ FT.
