AV over CAT5 – Custom AV Installation

The commercial and residential markets have recently turned toward balun technology to resolve many cabling issues associated with custom AV.  Multi-room systems, production and sound systems, rental and staging are a few markets that are starting to reap the benefits of pre-existing Cat5.   The following diagram illustrates the use of MuxLab’s component video baluns to connect a number of high-resolution cameras back to a mobile video production facility.

Figure 4: Typical Video Production Application

Figure 4: Typical Video Production Application

Until recently component video could only be transmitted at low resolution over Cat5.  Today there are Cat5 balun solutions that support HDTV (780p, 1080i) resolution over Cat5 and this is opening new doors in the custom AV market.  HDTV is now as easy to connect over Cat5 as Ethernet.

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