Extron has installed its NAV Pro AV over IP system at Mt. San Antonio College (Mt. SAC), which ranks as a top community college in California. At 421 acres, this 75-year-old college is one of the largest in the state and it continues to expand to meet a burgeoning student enrolment.
As part of the recent campus expansion, Mt. SAC built a modern gymnasium and aquatics complex with innovative technology. Content is available for selectable distribution to the many displays and 13 videowalls located throughout the 145,000sqft complex.
Mt. SAC required an installation that linked all spaces and met the significant challenge of content display at a wide variety of native resolutions. They selected the Extron NAV Pro AV over IP system, along with with NAV scaling decoders and Extron control systems.
The gym and aquatic complex’s NAV system currently consists of 93 endpoints and is expandable. It links the main gym, multi-purpose gym, main pool, dive pool, and an array of other NAV endpoints in meeting, learning, and targeted environments. Integration firm Production Access Group used one NAVigator Pro AV over IP System Manager with a LinkLicense upgrade to configure the encoders and scaling decoders en masse, saving time and streamlining setup.
Each NAV endpoint is defined by location and a unique identification name. The support team also uses NAVigator to monitor and manage the entire NAV system from a central location.
Video and other content can be distributed to any combination of displays across the facility, including the scoreboard and other videowalls, auxiliary displays, digital signage, and a myriad of individual room displays. NAV 1G encoders that support HDMI, Ethernet, and USB bring content from the scoreboard computers and various other sources into the main system.
With so many types and sizes of displays, standardising on one or two common resolutions was not an option. Each NAV scaling decoder is configured to output the optimal resolution to match the native resolution of each videowall and display device. The NAV scaling decoder also supports the AES67 audio steam.
Ben Frederick, chief executive officer at integration company Production Access Group, said: “A significant feature to the NAV system is its capability to scale because the different videowalls need to receive specific resolutions. With the NAV scaling decoder, the required resolution is delivered without having to install additional equipment in Mt. SAC’s challenging gym and pool environments.”
Future plans include routing multicast traffic with NAV. Segregating the networks will allow everything to have an IP range that is localised to just that space.
Meanwhile, the new complex played a key role in aiding the school to secure Nike sponsorship, highlighting the high quality of its comprehensive sports education programme.
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