With increasing demand for multimedia-based exams, a local university, after establishing an IDC (Internet Data Center) on its new campus, needed professional A/V solutions to meet the following requirements:

• Deliver exam questions from two computers in the IDC to four classrooms – each classroom has two screens to display the questions
• Transmit A/V signals over long distance – the IDC is located away from the classrooms
• Support multiple exam question mode delivery – such as both audio and video, video only, or audio only
• Work seamlessly with the existing IT environment control system in the IDC

For the university, the solution was a media matrix solution which consisted of an eight-port A/V matrix switch and an A/V Over CAT5 extender. After the deployment, the university noticed the following benefits:

Multimedia exams can be conducted more efficiently – different exam questions can be delivered to multiple classrooms and displayed on two screens in each classroom with the use of the existing video splitter

• A/V signals can be seamlessly delivered from IDC to the classrooms – the solution permits HD video signals to be transmitted over distances of up to 300 meters
• Satisfy the demands for all kinds of multimedia exam questions – new A/V solution allows independent switching of all audio and video sources