Avocent HMX Manager
Desktop over IP

Avocent HMX Diagram depicting back-racking desktop computers

Avocent HMX Manager
The Avocent HMX Manager provides centralized management and control of HMX 1050 extender transmitters and receivers, allowing them to serve as endpoints of a high performance, LAN-based KVM switch. This solution provides media professionals with uncompromised switched KVM access to business critical broadcast and post-production video editing systems.

Based on Gigabit Ethernet and highly optimized extension technology, the Avocent HMX 1050 extender and the HMX Manager products provide the image quality and responsiveness associated with distance-limited analog KVM switches and the unlimited distance benefits previously only available through less responsive KVM over IP switches. In addition to near lossless video and snappy mouse response, these third-generation, network-based products deliver CD-quality audio and seamless extension of USB mass storage devices.

Solution for Broadcast and Post-Production Environments
The HMX Manager provides ease of workstation maintenance, management and access in a secure environment. Through centralization of computer assets, the user benefits from a noiseless working environment, optimized work area space and serviceability. Key security features allow administrators to enforce access restrictions to critical systems with granular settings that permit server access only from select user stations, as well as audit logging for full logging of all system access. The HMX Manager includes web-based management of user access rights to allow users to change desk locations without the need for the administrator to reconfigure each desk in order to provide access. Web-based management allows administrators to perform system administration and setup right from their desks.

Avocent HMX 1050 User Station
The Avocent HMX 1050 digital workstation extender provides hardware-based digital desktop extension of video, keyboard, mouse, USB mass storage, and audio signals. The HMX 1050 solution allows users to back-rack digital workstations without impact to power user operations. The HMX 1050 extender consists of a computer node and user node interconnected in a point-to-point manner at Gigabit Ethernet rates using IP protocols over a single UTP cable.

The HMX 1050 digital workstation extender meets the demanding needs of today's rich digital content applications, including high resolution video, deep color depth, uncompromised responsiveness, CD quality audio, and compatibility with a wide range of user interface devices - while mission critical servers are securely maintained and managed.

Solution for Broadcast and Post-Production Environments
The Avocent HMX 1050 extender, for example, removes the requirement for conditioned power in the edit suite and greatly reduces ambient noise in the creative space (edit suite or control room). Because the product offers hardware extension, it eliminates the burden that software products place on target servers. The USB mass storage extension functionality of the product provides a cost-effective alternative for expensive USB 2.0 extension products

Avocent HMX 1070 User Station
The HMX 1070 user station delivers high-quality video ( up to 1900 x 1200 @ 60Hz) and CD quality audio by providing remote access to your workstations from anywhere on the LAN. Computer users can enjoy the full desktop experience including keyboard, video, mouse, speakers, and USB mass media devices, without the inconvenience of storing the computer at their desk. The HMX 1070 offers remote access to your computer peripheral’s functionality and applications from anywhere on the corporate TCP/IP LAN, or point-to-point over a single UTP cable.

Avocent HMX 2050 User Station
The Avocent HMX 2050 extender delivers uncompromised digital workstation extension across unlimited distances. Offering high quality crisp video and highly responsive mouse interaction, this network-based product also provides CD quality audio and seamless extension of USB mass storage devices. Media-intense applications such as video editing benefit from real-time user experience while mission critical media servers are securely maintained and managed. The HMX 2050 extension product consists of a transmitter that connects externally to each remote computer with dual DVI-D video connectors, and a receiver that connects at each user desk with dual DVI-I connectors.

The HMX 2050 extender provides access from dual video monitor workstations to user stations using point-to-point extension over the same IP connection. The high quality extension provided by the HMX 2050 product is ideal for users who need a rich media dual video display experience while using TCP/IP as the transport protocol. The solution operates within the boundaries of a typical IP network.

Avocent HMX Manager

HMX Desktop over IP Features:

• Eliminates distance limitations within the LAN
• Allows computers and users to be located anywhere on the LAN
• Provides high-quality DVI video and CD audio
• Centralized management via a single console, including access, desktop pooling and reporting
• 128bit AES encryption for secure access
• Removes the need for dedicated cabling between user and computer
• Dual Digital DVI Video up to 1920 x 1200
• USB media and most other USB devices
• Increased support video resolution:1680x1050 @ 60Hz
• USB keyboard/mouse as well as vUSB
• Interoperability between the HMX single and dual video high resolution products

Avocent HMX Manager (rear view)

Avocent HMX Manager Features:

• Provides ease of workstation maintenance, management and access in a secure environment
• The HMX Manager provides centralized management and control of HMX 1050 extender transmitters and receivers
• Provides full logging of all system access including user login, login status, connection times, disconnection time and system update
• Includes web-based management

Avocetn HMX 1050 User Station

Avocent HMX 1050 Features:

• Provides hardware-based extension for digital/analog video, USB keyboard and mouse, USB media, and audio signals
• Includes computer nodes and user nodes that can be interconnected in a point-to-point configuration at Gigabit Ethernet rates using IP protocols over a single UTP cable 
• The extender makes it possible to back-rack digital workstations without impact to post-production operations

Avocent HMX 1070 Features:

• Single-head DVI-I video up to 1920 x 1200 resolution

• Eliminates distance limitations by utilizing LAN

• Removes dedicated cabling requirements between user and computer

• Designed for harsh, sensitive, and restricted areas

• USB keyboard / mouse

Avocent HMX 2050 Features:

• Provides quality high resolution video using cost-effective Ethernet cabling and networking devices. Delivers virtually unlimited extension distances

• Supports digital video up to 1920 x 1200 at 60 Hz

• Provides real-time extension of dual video over Ethernet using a single CAT 5 cable

• The extender makes it possible to back-rack digital workstations without impact to operations