Avocent Digital Desktops' Cstation C1000s Deployed At Kentucky Derby Museum for Video-On-Demand Kiosks.Business Editors & Technology Writers COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). Fall 2002 LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 2002 Cstations Allow Museum Visitors to View Video Footage at Remote Kiosks Powered by PCs Securely Located On Another Floor of the Facility Avocent Digital Desktops, a division of Avocent Corporation (Nasdaq:AVCT AVCT Advanced Vehicles Concept Team ), announced today the successful deployment of three of its Cstation(TM) C1000s at the Kentucky Derby Museum The Kentucky Derby Museum is an American Thoroughbred horse racing museum located on the grounds of Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. Dedicated to preserving the history of the Kentucky Derby, it first opened its doors to the public in the spring of 1984. at Churchill Downs Churchill Downs, Ky.: see Louisville. in Louisville, KY. The Cstation with Digital Extension Technology is a first-of-its-kind device that is providing the museum with the ability to display video-on-demand film footage of past Kentucky Derby Kentucky Derby One of the classic U.S. Thoroughbred horse races. It was established in 1875 and run annually on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs track in Louisville, Ky. With the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes, it makes up U.S. racing's coveted Triple Crown. events to kiosks in the museum's permanent display. Cstation enables the museum to centralize PCs in a data center while extending digital video to multiple kiosks. A key component of the contract, awarded to Somerset Group, Inc., required that the Kentucky Derby Museum have the ability to preserve its original exhibit and leverage its existing networking infrastructure. With Digital Desktops' technology, each remote PC system bus is digitally extended over standard copper or fiber LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. cabling to the Cstation inside the kiosk, which can be as far as 800 meters away. This Split Client(TM) computing strategy increases PC security and uptime while reducing IT costs. Cstations enable computing resources to be upgraded, maintained, repaired and replaced from a single location without interrupting the end-user's computing experience. This technology includes the ability for end users to access multiple monitors and receive true digital video output. Somerset completed the installation of Digital Desktops' Cstations in each of the Kentucky Derby Museum's three kiosks this fall. The new high resolution, digital computer monitors in each kiosk provide state-of-the-art video quality previously inaccessible from the museum's legacy system. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Jeff Kennedy, Audio/Visual Manager at the museum, the primary purpose for the enhancements was to enable the remote location of CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. hardware to a controlled environment in the museum, and still provide playback of the more than 120 two-to-three minute high resolution video files, each of which exceeds 150MegaBytes. Some of the clips of races and post race interviews consist of digitized footage dating from 1918. "We deployed the Cstations using CAT 5e to meet this challenge," said Kennedy. "The systems are performing flawlessly with no video frames or sound being lost in the transmission." "Avocent Digital Desktops Digital Extension Technology enabled us to bid this project," said Don Dickey, Chief Creative Officer of Somerset Group. "The museum's specific requirements were well within our creative and technical capabilities, but the remote location of the hardware presented particular challenges. We reviewed several options and decided that the Cstations were the best solution. They provide fantastic support for the current hardware and provide the ability to push large, robust files without dropping frames or requiring massive CPU power." About Avocent Digital Desktops Formerly 2C Computing, Avocent Digital Desktops brings Digital Extension Technology to the market through its Cstation line of products. The pioneer in digital bus extension technology, Avocent Digital Desktops makes available a new archetype archetype (är`kĭtīp') [Gr. arch=first, typos=mold], term whose earlier meaning, "original model," or "prototype," has been enlarged by C. G. Jung and by several contemporary literary critics. in distributed computing by providing the most powerful transport method between a PC and a remote desktop. The Cstation shatters the PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). and USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. length limitations, allowing IT managers the ability to backrack PCs to a central environment and drastically reduce maintenance at the desktop. IT administrators enjoy ease of maintenance, reduced asset auditing and rapid deployment of new networking technologies, while end users retain full PC functionality and peripherals but with reduced heat, noise, clutter, and with downtimes minimized to minutes. For more information, visit www.avocent.com. About Avocent Corporation Avocent (Nasdaq:AVCT) is the leading worldwide supplier of KVM (K Virtual Machine) A version of the Java Virtual Machine for small devices with limited memory. See J2ME. See also KVM switch. KVM - Keyboard Video Mouse (keyboard, video and mouse) switching, remote access and serial connectivity solutions that provide IT managers with access and control of multiple servers and network data center devices. Avocent's KVM solutions are distributed by the world's largest server manufacturers and installed in Fortune 100 companies around the world. For more details, visit www.avocent.com. About Somerset Group Somerset Group, Inc. is a visual communication company located in Madison, Alabama. The company specializes in interactive multimedia, web site creation, computer animation, graphic design and video production for commercial and government customers. Somerset has received numerous ADDYs (including four Best of Show) from local and district advertising federations for its projects as well as national awards from the Telly awards, the Vision awards, the American Economic Development Council, Golden Web Awards, Vision.to and Triumph PC Online. For more information, visit www.gosomerset.net. Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains statements that are forward-looking statements as defined within the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. These include statements regarding market opportunity, product development, engineering and design activities, and product availability and operability Operability is the ability to keep a system in a functioning and operating condition. In a computing systems environment with multiple systems this includes the ability of products, systems and business processes to work together to accomplish a common task such as finding and . These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the statements made, including the risks associated with the introduction and operation of a new product, risks associated with product design efforts, and risks associated with reliance on a limited number of component suppliers and single source components. Other factors that could cause operating and financial results to differ are described in Avocent's annual report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 29, 2002. Other risks may be detailed from time to time in reports to be filed with the SEC. Avocent does not undertake any obligation to publicly release the result of any revisions to forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. |
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