Guntermann & Drunck News - May 2009

KVM solutions not only for the airport industry

The German manufacturer Guntermann & Drunck GmbH announces its participation in the Airport Show Dubai. The Airport Show is one of the largest airport events for construction, operation, technology and services in the world. After the success that G&D experienced at this year’s ATC/Amsterdam it’s showing its KVM product portfolio to the professionals in the Middle East. Being close to the ANSPs and ATCOs the German manufacturer matches their special needs with its portfolio.

What does G&D present at the Airport Show?

There are two sectors Guntermann & Drunck serves with its solutions. First one is dedicated to the broadcasting of video and audio signals. Extending and switching computer signals has always been the core strenth of G&D. That includes bringing the content from one source to different outputs like public information displays in waiting halls.

Second sector is dedicated to the special needs of mission critical applications in the ATCO’s daily work. Besides its wide product range from KVM switches over matrixswitches up to extenders, G&D presents extenders especially designed for the demanding computer applications in the ATC environment. These KVM products hold a variety of monitoring possiblities at devices breakdowns and for respective support.

Space and safety for the ATCO’s work

Space limitations, avoiding computer emissions and easy computer access are some of the driving factors for removing computers from the controller´s desk into a separate plant room by use of KVM extenders.
As safety is paramount in ATC, monitoring the IT enabling the ATCO´s work can be essential to prevent blackouts or decrease down-times for maintanence. Prevention instead of remedy is focussed by G&D.

G&D’s KVM devices enable the anticipatory intervention of the administrator by keeping him informed about system status – either as a passive information by a syslog entry or an active notification by SNMP. Redundancy in power as well as fallback concepts is one more topic on G&D’s list of safety.

How does KVM work in detail?

KVM solutions extend standard computer interfaces in real time over existing cable infrastructure without any loss in quality. The transmission is not based on a network protocol but can be carried out over the existing structured cabling – either over CAT cable or fibre optics. Depending on the cable medium in use distances up to 10,000 meters can be bridged. The computer’s external interfaces are connected to the extender´s transmitter unit. Namely K-eyboard, V-ideo and M-ouse interfaces. Those are extended to the receiver unit being located at where the users are. Keyboard, monitor and mouse are connected to the receiver. The user is then able to access and operate the remote computer in real time regardless of the distance. The extenders carry out the setup independently and automatically. Optionally RS232, USB and audio signals can be transmitted in addition to KVM signals.

In air traffic control the products support high resolutions for current display technologies like dual-link DVI for standard or multi-head graphics adapters.
In combination with KVM switches or matrixswitches the efficiency of KVM installations can be increased further. Instead of having a dedicated local console for each transmitter, all transmitters can be connected to one KVM switch thus enabling centralized control by one console only.

What’s special about Guntermann & Drunck?

The company provides more than two decades of knowledge and experience, which is reflected in the solution competency in service, planning, integration and initiation. Guntermann & Drunck GmbH is one of the leading manufacturers of high quality monitoring products for air and ground traffic control. They are based in Germany where research & development, product mangement and production take place under the same roof. Their strength is to  combine standard modules to complete solutions, customised to the needs of different industries.

Profile Guntermann & Drunck GmbH

The Guntermann & Drunck GmbH was founded in 1985 and is now established as a leading manufacturer of analog and digital KVM solutions. The company provides almost 25 years of experience in developing and implementing professional products for distributing, extending and switching signals in real-time. With its products the German company serves customers from small to medium-sized companies up to worldwide acting concerns of all branches.

KVM solutions from Guntermann & Drunck optimize IT applications, e.g. in telecommunications, finance sector, digital signage, control station or control room, industrial production and automation, broadcast engineering as well as in the office and of course in the ATC sector.

Being a medium-sized company, Guntermann & Drunck provides the flexibility to meet their customer’s demands. Among them are adjustments regarding customised functions as well as integrated special peripherals.

Core competencies like development, production, sales and service are available in-house. That gives the owner-managed company the flexibility to make decisions closely to the market and in the interest of the customers. G&D assures qualitative, customer-oriented individual expert advice from planning over initial operation up to support. Only the perfect interaction of all components achieves the individual requirements of all different application scenarios.

With KVM Extenders the possible distance between computer and user can be extended up to 10,000 m. Signal transmission is carried out over existing cable infrastructure.  

With KVM Switches and Matrixswitches many computers are operated and administrated over one or several workplaces while saving in peripherals. All solutions hold the common advantage: high performance, latency- and loss-free access from the workplace to the computer.

G&D’s IP solutions extend the range of use as well as enable computer access also over Ethernet down to the BIOS level. More product groups add to the portfolio and make comprehensive competence in solution.

Guntermann & Drunck GmbH – turning technology into solutions!

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