Video over UTP (Cat5/5e/6) for Signage in Mexico City Airport

"Mexico City Airport wanted to upgrade it's information systems and provide flight information to their passengers throughout the airport. Contecnica was the vendor chosen to tackle this problem and the problem they were facing was the vast size of this airport. The airport spanned over 1 mile from gate 1 to gate 35. Sending identical video to over 50 locations spread out over a location of this size was a daunting task. Their previous system utilized a master PC which was updated by the flight controllers and 8 client PC's distributed throughout the airport. Contecnica did not want to purchase 40+ PC's to act as clients to the master just to drive a video signal so we offered them a simpler and far less expensive solution.

What we proposed was to connect 1 UVA-8 to each client PC. The UVA-8 is an 8 port VGA to UTP (Cat5/5e/6) transmitter which can send a video signal to 8 separate locations up to 1,000 feet each. At each location where there would be a remote display, a URA was used to convert the signal back into VGA and display it on the information kiosk.

The result was an identical, crystal clear image at each of the 50+ locations. This allowed the Mexico City airport to provide a consistent feel to the flight information that was displayed all around the airport. As a result of the overwhelming success of this installation and solution, this setup was replicated in 5 more airports in Mexico with 13 more to come. The beauty of this solution was the fact that each display did not require the purchase of a new expensive PC which would then have to be maintained and updated. Instead, just a simple extension of the video signal over very long distances with perfect image clarity provided a maintenance free solution at a much lower price tag."