Polatis Joins Crestron Partner Programme

Polatis Inc, a supplier of high performance optical switch technologies, has announced that it has partnered with Crestron, a leading provider in management control systems, to ensure compatibility with their next generation Trinity Optical Routing Switch as Polatis enters the Pro AV market.
The membership with Crestron will allow Polatis to offer their Trinity optical switching technology alongside Crestron's industry standard automation system. The partnership comes at a time of convergence in the video market, with Pro AV applications turning more to fiber transport for higher bandwidth in video, audio and data.
Aaron Bent, Vice President of Marketing at Polatis, said: "We are pleased to partner with Crestron to offer our leading edge optical switching technology alongside Crestron's industry standard automation system.
"As bandwidths keep increasing, optical switches will become an integral and future-proof part of the Professional AV's development and users can implement this exciting technology within their current automation and control systems."
Chris Wildfoerster, Director of Business Development at Crestron, said: "The market's increasing demand for the bandwidth and performance in presentation devices is creating the need for a fiber optic infrastructure.
"The Trinity switch provides a unique and future-proof capability to route signals on fiber. Providing interoperability with the Crestron control and automation system ensures our dealers and system integrators seamless integration into a fiber infrastructure with the family of Crestron-approved products."
The Trinity series is designed to carry all types of video transport. It supports virtually all protocols and data rates - HDMI, DVI, SD/HD, SMPTE-276M, 259M AND 292M, NTSC, RF and other audio and data protocols.
The flexible and multi-purpose switch creates exciting new signal routing solutions for medical centres, stadiums, large venues and government. Like all Polatis products, traffic can be bi-directional, and carry simple or multiple wavelengths.
A live product demonstration of Trinity can be seen at the Polatis booth (C829) at INFOCOMM in Las Vegas from June 17 to 20.
Further information is available at: www.polatis.com.
(KMcA)