Bank counters, control rooms and factory floors often keep the host in a rack or server room and leave only a display and keyboard/mouse at the desk. The hard part is linking the two across tens of metres. Here the TX connects to the host and the RX to the display and peripherals, and video, audio and USB keyboard/mouse data share one wireless or wired link.
The desk is tens of metres from the rack, beyond normal HDMI and USB lengths, and the run goes through walls and cable trays. Long USB runs make keyboards and mice drop out, and adding repeaters brings more power supplies and more points of failure.
A host under the counter has its USB ports exposed, so people plug in flash drives or knock the power cable. On a factory floor, dust and oil get into the case and maintenance visits go up.
Every workstation has a host and a bundle of cables, so moving or adding a desk means rewiring. Technicians crawl under desks to trace cables, and the counter area looks untidy.
Besides keyboard and mouse, counters use barcode scanners and touch panels. A video-only extender ignores these, so a separate USB extension has to be found.
Keyboards, mice, touch panels, barcode scanners and other USB HID devices plug into the RX. Their data travels back over the link and the host sees local USB devices, with no drivers. Peripherals are extended along with the picture.
Hosts sit together in a rack or server room, and the desk keeps only the display, keyboard/mouse and an RX box. With no host under the desk there is less tampering, knocking and dust, and maintenance happens in one place.
Office screens, spreadsheets and monitoring views are full of small text. The 4K60 model drives the display at its native resolution, and full EDID pass-through gives the host the display's real capabilities, so the resolution isn't forced down.
Where there is clear line of sight, go wireless: the three tiers cover roughly 30-1000 m. Across floors or through many walls, use network cable, up to 500 m in total through switches, or add fiber media converters for longer runs. Both modes carry video, audio and KVM data together.
Video, keyboard and mouse data are encrypted end to end with a key created at pairing. With the host locked in a cabinet, the link from the desk to the host cannot be picked up by nearby devices, which suits finance or dispatch desks that need screens kept private.
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Cabling hassle and adapter chaos in meeting rooms, especially with BYOD guests.
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