At IBC2024 in Stand 10.C23, Black Box will highlight its Emerald Unified KVM-over-IP products designed to offer secure, flexible and scalable workflows with low IP bandwidth usage. Emerald devices facilitate integration with H.264/265 video feeds, media controllers, automation systems, and other systems and provide access to physical servers, the public and private cloud with PCoIP Ultra support, and collaborative virtual machine (VM) sharing.
Visitors to the Black Box stand can look ahead at the Emerald product roadmap, including the upcoming Emerald DESKVUE PE receiver with 4K/60 video processing. The Black Box stand will also feature new additions to the Emerald family that unite KVM and advanced video processing under a single management system.
John Hickey, senior director of R&D and KVM systems at Black Box, said: “Our high-performance Emerald KVM-over-IP product line continually evolves to deliver advanced functionality and superior responsiveness, with intuitive operation and management.”
He added: “At IBC2024, we’ll showcase the latest addition to this award-winning family, giving attendees their first look at the new DESKVUE PE. Extending the display of up to 16 connections across four desktop displays or a video wall while maintaining exceptional video quality and low latency, this new receiver brings an added level of flexibility to collaborative production environments. We will also highlight various features and capabilities across the Emerald line that combine to enable secure, flexible, and scalable workflows.”
The Black Box Emerald KVM-over-IP platform is a scalable universal access system, allowing users to connect to physical and virtual machines with anywhere, anytime IP access over an existing IP network, WAN, or the internet.
Black Box will highlight the Emerald system’s security features, power and connectivity options that add resilience and simplify setup, and interfaces for flexible layout configuration and agile switching. It will showcase new power redundancy capability and two-network link redundancy (copper and fibre) for its Emerald traditional KVM DP receivers.
The Emerald KVM-over-IP platform manages signals and format types, empowering users to deliver content with an innovative look and feel. Organisations can leverage existing IT equipment, facilitating control and monitoring through the Boxilla KVM Manager’s KVM management dashboard.
At IBC2024, Black Box will also demonstrate the Emerald DESKVUE. This KVM-over-IP receiver is a small-form-factor device offering users a new concept for creating individually tailored workspaces. Emerald DESKVUE allows users to access up to 16 different physical or virtual systems and H.264/H.265 streams simultaneously. All systems are displayed as individual windows on up to four 4K or curved (5K) monitors.
The company will showcase Emerald DESKVUE with enhancements that enable greater workspace personalisation, including system arrangements on the screen, with capabilities such as locking favoured system tiles and easier, faster switching among tiles, as well as an exclusive work mode and personalised on-screen layouts.
Black Box will also showcase, for the first time, a preview of its Emerald DESKVUE PE receiver, which displays up to 16 simultaneous connections on four displays or a video wall, raising the bar for professional, precise video processing and supporting 4K/60 video channels.
In the new Black Box Emerald AV WALL, KVM unites with AV. This new solution enables interoperability with Emerald KVM-over-IP systems while supporting non-KVM environments. Emerald AV WALL complements Emerald DESKVUE, making it easy to display a single source from an Emerald system on a video wall for viewing by a larger group. The solution directly supports a 2×2 video wall while allowing for the expansion in the number of supported monitors through additional units.
