ESSENTIAL CABLES AND CONNECTIONS
STAYING ON TOP OF IT ALL Kevan Sproston, experienced AV specialist and Product Sales Manager for Kordz, examines the increasing demand placed on infrastructure. Cables are not likely to be the first thing that jumps to mind when looking at a new and exciting AV project, after all it’s usually the experience we deliver to clients that as an industry we get excited about. Cabling is often the unsung hero of every professional audio-visual installation, it’s the backbone that we hang all the technology on. It goes without saying that as technology advances, the infrastructure needs to keep up, if not stay ahead of the equipment that we’re installing. In fact, the smart move in our industry has always been to install over specified infrastructure, this makes upselling existing projects a cinch. This approach is not only a great sales tool, it also helps protect the profitability of our installations. With sufficient headroom we can be confident that the equipment we installed today will still be working just the way we installed it tomorrow. After all, making a service call as result of poor infrastructure choices will result in poor client relations and poor profits to match. Right now, it’s imperative to make sure you keep on top the ever-increasing bandwidth requirements. When it comes to our immediate challenges, I see three key areas where we need to stay on top of our cable game; wireless, high-resolution video and device interoperability.
34 MARCH 2022
What has wireless got to do with cables you may wonder? Well, whilst wireless technology is widely promoted to consumers as liberating devices, making connectivity easier and increasing installation flexibility, there is a heavy price to pay with reliability and security. Ever increasing cyber security concerns, using wired networking solutions where appropriate is a clear winner. Hacking a wired network is far from impossible but we’re not transmitting our potentially precious data into the air on radio waves, which are in relative terms easier to intercept. Staying ahead of bandwidth issues should not be an alien concept
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