The new broadcast products complement KBC's existing fibre range, and are built to perform in challenging locations such as petrochemical and military sites, where fibre plays a critical role in overall system design. The units are also ideal for CCTV control room applications, where large, flat-screen monitors are used and where video information is broadcast from a central location to multiple monitors, for example, passenger information screens in airports and railway stations.

Iain Deuchars, MD KBC Networks EMEA commented, "Digital video, such as DVI and HDMI is becoming common place in CCTV systems at the control room end and this, coupled with opportunities in the video distribution market, became the catalyst to develop our broadcast product range. The current range covers basic fibre interfaces and electrical splitters, and we're now working on new products to enhance the range further."

The newly-designed, fibre interfaces enable video transmission distances to be extended over a single multimode or singlemode fibre. When compared to their twisted pair counterparts, the digital fibre interfaces offer greater transmission distances as well as superior video quality. The range includes DVI, HDMI, 3G-SDI & HD-SDI standalone fibre units as well as a multi-interface 'computer on a fibre' interface which takes the interfaces found on a standard computer and transmits them all on one singlemode fibre to a remote base unit.

The KBC electrical splitters generate multiple paths (2, 4, 8, 12 and 16) from a single DVI or HDMI video input. The interfaces provide EDID (on the DDC line) via a 'loop-though' port and offer a display resolution of WUXGA (1920 x 1200 @ 60Hz) and HDTV up to 1080p.' With an operating temperature range of between -30 and +70°C, KBC's all-digital broadcast products are available as wall-mount, compact and 19" rack units.