VGA Video/Audio Extender via CAT5: Extend to 600 feet (183 meters)

"I recently did a Multi-Floor Media Display Network installation of remote high-resolution video displays with accompanying audio feed in lobby areas on two separate floors of a Government Agency’s district office. The Commander wanted the ability to screen live satellite feeds, CCTV, local network information as well as a variety of in house presentations.

"To accomplish this, I needed to create a PC head end with software and other equipment capable of managing the various inputs. Select an output device that could be wall mounted in the space available and be able to reproduce VGA signals at a resolution of 1280x1024 as well as video and CCTV images. The monitor would need extremely wide viewing angles to allow for public viewing. Audio would need to be accomplished by a network of speakers balanced to compensate for the losses due to distance.

"The head end equipment selected allowed inputs for DVD, VHS, satellite, CATV, Internet and LAN feeds. The signals were fed through a video processor which added additional features like picture-in-picture, freeze frame and zoom, as well as the ability to remotely control which one of the inputs would play the primary role on each screen. Since the monitors were to be located on different floors and in areas remote to the head end, Cat5 VGA extenders were used to insure distance, 600 feet, and resolution, 1280x1024. The ST-C5VA-600 and ST-C5V-600 products manufactured by Network Technologies Incorporated (NTI™) were used to accomplish this."

"I am using the XTENDEX™ VGA Extender to broadcast VGA video locally and remotely on high-resolution monitors from Dell at 1024x768 video resolution. These extenders are an ideal solution, because they are very well built, compact and easy to install. The images are absolutely excellent; there is no difference between the image on the local monitor and the image on the remote monitor.

"After testing many other solutions on the market, I found that the quality delivered by NTI's VGA video extenders could not be beat.

"The sales and service from NTI has always been excellent, and the people you talk to when you call up actually know what they're talking about and the product they are selling."

"After extensive research and testing of various products, our team was delighted to discover NTI’s XTENDEX™ VGA Extenders with RS232 Control. We have standardized on NTI extension products as the recommended solution for our National dealer channel for use with our touchscreen based digital music management system. The NTI ST-C5VRS-600 are truly plug-n-play and performance has been excellent. Our dealers have been quite happy with the product quality, ease of use and support from NTI."

"When we began our project, we quickly realized that NTI was the only provider that offered the necessary high end video resolution at the distances we needed to carry our applications over. Their technology, sales and technical support has offered everything we had hoped for in a company!"

"I would like to congratulate Network Technologies Inc on the quality of design on their XTENDEX VGA extenders. I asked our Flight Information Display System (FIDS) vendor to consider using the XTENDEX extender to resolve an issue. Since they replaced another vendor's product with the XTENDEX, we have all been very pleased with the result.

"We had switched monitors only to find out that the input voltage of the new monitor was 0.5 volts lower. The Ethernet to VGA converters that the FIDS contractor had supplied were not capable to match the input voltage for the new monitors and thus, did not work. I checked on the Internet and after looking at the possible options decided that the NTI XTENDEX VGA extender would be the best choice. The FIDS contractor tried the extender and it matched the input voltage and synced with the monitor flawlessly."