Climate Change Connectivity

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London’s Science Museum is bringing to life a new gallery, ‘Atmosphere: exploring climate science’ with a network extension solution.
 
AdderLink Infinity, from KVM connectivity specialist Adder Technology enables the extension of DVI, USB, RS232 and audio across an IP network, to build a flexible infrastructure.
 

 
Up to 60,000 people a month visit the Atmosphere permanent exhibition, which uses a series of games and interactive displays to help develop a greater understanding of the science of climate change in an enjoyable, engaging and memorable way. The museum is using 16 Infinities to provide connectivity between its hard drives and the displays.
 
The Science Museum chose the solution after an extensive testing round, on a variety of criteria including: picture quality; the amount of picture noise; resolution; any changes in colour fidelity; making sure the distance of the display from the unit did not affect quality.
 
“We needed to be confident that we would have a system that would endure the rigours of the exhibition, which runs between eight and 16 hours a day for 364 days a year,” explains Dave Patten, head of New Media at the Science Museum.
 
The AdderLink Infinity is an ideal solution for the broadcast world – the spatially lossless, colour perfect and lightning fast video performance – makes it ideal for this exhibition.”