I'm here today to show you the new Hubbell products for AV. With the things that have
been happening in the industry, we're seeing a lot of convergence actually happening. We're
trying to bring new products that the standard contractors, the low voltage contractors,
can use in their every day installations. Something that in the past we used to put
aside for AV specialists, now we've made it so easy that the low voltage contractors can
do it themselves.
About three years ago we came out with a new product and that product was an HDMI Extender.
We were allowed to go up to 150 feet over two twisted pair cables. The advantage of
that was fill capacities in the conduits that we were putting the material into. Where other
manufacturers may be using thicker cables, we can put a variety of different products
down on UTP cable. Again, we use UTP cable not shielded twisted pair, so that makes us
a little different.
The second item that we came out with was a VGA Extender. The VGA Extender takes product
out to 75 feet, so that people can do conference rooms or classrooms and do it efficiently.
Again, it takes two cables to get that completed. With the two cables already in place with
the VGA, to do a simple upgrade, you would pull this unit out and snap this unit in.
So we're able to upgrade a system and make it work for the future without having to do
major construction.
We also have for whiteboards and control items we came out with an extender for my USB, and
the USB can go out to 100 feet.
What everybody is getting into with the AV market we either have a very high end, people
like Extron or Crestron out there, or a very low end, where I talk to people who are buying
things on the internet for $5. The problem is, the items they're buying on the internet
are only good for about 12 meters. When you exceed the 12 meters, you need to power the
unit, and that's what these extenders will actually do.
We went beyond. We wanted to go to something that wasn't quite an Extron or Crestron. So
Hubbell came out with a product, it is our 10Base-T product. The 10Base-T product will
allow you to do video over one twisted pair cable, UTP, 100 meters/330 feet. That's very
good when you're doing signage or conference room video. Again, we don't want to look at
the high end, we're not looking to get into displays. We are looking at a point to point
solution that we can get done.
We started to notice that everything has to be powered when we start talking about these
products. Hubbell is a power company. What we did was take a new product that came out,
the USB charger. We made an alteration to the USB charger. We went into the back and
we tapped into the transformer. This allowed us to take the 5 volts that's required by
these units and we can power it off of this. We are putting both the power and the AV equipment
in one box. It's going to make it a lot easier when people go out there. The old power systems
I would either have to power my devices back at a credenza or back in the closet which
meant I was running power cable out to each individual unit. I'm going to be doing it
in my AV box with a divider in the box.
Our goal is to make this easier for the AV contractor who wants to do this or the low
voltage person who has been doing voice and data for many years.
For more information on the AV 110 Everywhere please visit our page or contact your Graybar
representative.