Control room management suite

Features

Central Server

• Central setup & connection management
• JBOSS™ application server based
• Central configuration database
• Fully distributed & modular component technology
• Fast setup time
• Browser based user interface
• Auto-detection of network sources
• Full redundancy support (Redundant Server support on Linux from December 2008 onward)
• Control Panel
  • Online configuration of sources, displays & system variables
  • Backup & restore capabilities
  • Scheduled backup
  • Advanced remote logging
• Integration
  • Fully featured Web services based API covering all functions
  • Simple Web service API with limited function set
  • Legacy RS-232 and TCP/IP API support

Client Software

• Java™ Web Start
• Zero maintenance
• Automatically saves the user’s work
• Sidebar
  • Easily explore the complete system
  • Minimal use of screen estate
  • Live search for fast browsing
  • Source browser to open any source quickly
  • Fully drag and drop enabled
  • Minimal learning curve
  • Audio decoding of video streams
  • Full resolution and full frame rate preview of all supported sources

• Mini Display
  • Remotely monitor displays over the network with the actual preview of all sources shown

  • Drag and drop from sidebar to mini display for quick perspective changes

  • Integrated soft KVM for remote control of displays
• Perspectives
  • One window with multiple sources
  • Perspectives can be opened and shown on both workstations and displays alike

  • Standard and custom Tiling configuration
  • Share your perspectives with other workstations or displays

  • Integrated soft KVM for remote control of sources
  • Decorators including: UMD, IDC, Source Name, Time (time zone aware), Date, Text, Logo, Message Ticker,
    Source status

Display Agent

• Perspective management
• Save and load layouts (complete display presets including perspectives and applications)

• Desktop Manager
  • Start, stop and position applications & sources freely over the complete desktop

  • Application automation (macro recording of mouse and keyboard actions)

• Remote Pointer
  • Remote keyboard and mouse control from and towards other networked desktops (bi-directional)

Supported sources

• Analog & Streaming Video
• Analog (RGB) and Digital (DVI-I) sources
• Networked desktops (VNC)
• Networked multi-channel workstations and Applications (Pro Sources)

• Intranet & Internet sources

Compatibility requirements

Central Server

• Any Microsoft Windows XP SP2 PC (Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 support from December 2008)
• Barco provided IBM dual Xeon server (Linux based)
• Minimum 10GB free hard disk space
• Minimum 2GB memory
• At least 2.16GHz dual core CPU or equivalent

Unmanned Displays

• Any Microsoft Windows XP SP2 PC (Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 support from December 2008)
• Nvidia Quadro FX 1700+ preferred for full feature support
• Barco PWS-101 support
• Barco TransForm A support
• Barco Frame Grabber support
• Minimum of 300MB free hard disk space
• Minimum 2GB memory
• At least 2.16GHz dual core CPU or equivalent

Manned Displays

• Microsoft Windows XP SP2 (Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 support from December 2008)
• Nvidia Quadro FX 1700+ preferred for full feature support
• Barco PWS-101 support
• Barco Frame Grabber support
• Minimum 300MB free hard disk space
• Minimum 2GB memory
• At least 2.16GHz dual core CPU or equivalent

This product is an option of the following products

Multi-screen networked controller
PWS-101

Order number
R9832690

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