Here’s the skinny: The DigitaLinx DL-S41-H2 is a slimline HDMI 2.0b auto switcher featuring four HDMI video inputs and one HDMI output, able to support resolutions up to 4k@60Hz, 4:4:4, HDR, 8 bit deep color, and multi-channel audio. 

Topics: Switchers, AV Installation, 18G, HDMI, HDMI 2.0b, EDID, AV Equipment, New AV Products

San Diego – September 5, 2018 (CEDIA EXPO 2018) - Domotz, an award-winning leader in the remote network monitoring and management sector specializing in cloud-based resource management for the AV, IT, and security sectors, announced an agreement with Liberty AV Solutions, a subsidiary of WESCO Distribution Inc., to provide its Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) solution with Liberty AV product lines, including DigitaLinx, DigitaLinxIP, and Intelix.

Topics: AV Installation, RMM, Remote Management, Troubleshooting, AV Integration for Safety, Audio Visual Security, Data Security, Domotz, IoT

Keeping up with ever-advancing technology demands is often a challenge.  Liberty AV Solutions, known to be heavily ingrained in the industry and often leading the way for advancements, has met the forthcoming bandwidth conversion to 18G with not one, but multiple solutions to extend these heavier data signals among greater distances, and without the use of compression. 

Topics: 18G, 10G, Fiber optics, AV Innovation, Switchers, Extenders, AV Integration,, CEDIA 2018

Liberty AV Solutions, known for their innovative solutions driven by user feedback, has once again delivered an industry changer.

Debuting at InfoComm 2018 earlier this year, Liberty AV released the new category cable termination system, ConnecTec Cat (CT Cat) . Received with open arms by technicians and installers alike, the system tackles common complaints and instantly delivers a cost and time savings to cable termination process.  Not being one to simply just talk a good game, Liberty AV put the simplicity and quality of use into action at the show with their, ‘CT Cat: Race to Win’ contest where installers came out in droves to compete for the best termination time. 

Topics: cat 6, cat 6a, category cable, cat 7, cat 8, cat 5e, Networking, IoT, AV Innovation, Cable Termination, Data Centers, AV Integration,, HDBaseT, LAN sharing, Keystone Inserts

UAE: Wesco Distribution recently hosted an open house for its Liberty AV Solutions brand in Dubai. The event took place at Dubai’s H Hotel, and was designed to explain the brand and its technology to the assembled crowd.

Topics: AV Integration,, AV Innovation, international

New distribution agreement provides connection to areas where Cosemi does not currently have a presence, increasing availability of high quality AOCs, meeting a rapidly-increasing market demand.

Topics: cosemi, Cosemi Technologies, AV, HDMI, Active Optical Cables, AOC, 8K, 4K, AV Innovation, DisplayPort, Video Communications, VCOM

‘Tis the Season for the dreaded “Cold Pull”. During the winter months Liberty typically sees claims of cable jackets cracking and splitting from customers. In almost every instance the product exhibits splits and cracks every couple of feet. This is not a defective cable but is an example of incorrect installation procedure by the installer. Plenum compounds are very stiff due to the additions of chemicals to prevent flame spread and smoke generation. Cold temperatures cause this to become very brittle and when the cable is flexed – the jacket shatters and/or cracks as shown below:

Topics: Technical Bulletin,, plenum, cold, cable cracking, plenum cable, cold weather

How to get the most out of your Wireless Networks
By Arthur de Jager, CEO of Niveo Professional

The (non-)sense of heat maps

We regularly receive requests to, based on a blue print of a building, to create a heatmap. Although the customer is always right, we should not give poor advise. So, we advise on suggested temporary placement of a few AP's, followed by a site survey.

Topics: Wireless,, Networking, Access Point, wireless network

By Arthur de Jager, CEO of Niveo Professional

Less than one month after the WannaCry ransom-ware attack, many companies and institutions were hit by Petya. The Petya attack spread very rapidly affecting many companies in a very short time-frame(1). It nearly paralyzed operations of one of Europe's largest container terminal and has seriously disrupted the operations of companies like TNT Express(2).

Topics: AV over IP, AV Security, Ransom Ware Attack, AV Integration,, Data Security, Audio Visual Security