Centralized Management for Secure Control Room Operations

This webinar demonstrates Black Box's Boxilla® central management system for IP KVM solutions, focusing on secure control room operations. The session covers how Boxilla serves as the intelligent controller for the Emerald ecosystem, managing transmitters, receivers, and user access across distributed networks.

Key features discussed include centralized device management, bandwidth monitoring, security through certificate exchange and user permissions, active directory integration, and API automation capabilities. The presentation highlights redundancy features like distributed databases and clustering options that ensure continuous operation even if Boxilla goes offline.

Applications engineers Jeremy and Ruben provide live demonstrations of the web interface, showing real-time monitoring, user management, and connection control.

Emerald - What's Next?

This webinar introduces major new features for Emerald, a unified platform for managing multiple sources in control rooms. The session features a panel of three experts discussing recent upgrades including UltraStream technology, which delivers multiple 4K video streams over one gigabit Ethernet, and WebLink, which provides browser-based access to SCADA and web systems without additional hardware.

The discussion covers how these innovations address customer pain points around access, security, and infrastructure costs while simplifying control room operations. The panelists explain how UltraStream reduces network infrastructure requirements and costs by enabling 4K video over existing one gig networks, while WebLink eliminates the need for custom middleware and additional hardware.

The webinar concludes with a look at future developments including fully integrated video wall solutions and AI-assisted operator functionality. Questions from attendees focus on demos, classified environment usage, and AI implementation plans.

How Video Compression Affects AV & KVM Systems

Because video consumes so much bandwidth, developers have to come up with increasingly efficient compression technologies. These technologies balance bandwidth usage so you can distribute high-resolution video and use a multitude of applications at the same time. But how does video compression specifically affect AV systems and KVM solutions that provide users with access to desktops, wayfinding, and even critical hardware required in control rooms?

Join our webinar to learn about compression technologies and schemes, use cases for different application scenarios, and how the right compression algorithm can make a drastic difference for professional AV and KVM systems.