1. RADIAN
Video Wall Processor

2. Training Overview Expected outcome Product Introduction
Key Features and benefits
Hardware components
Software
Markets and Applications
Competitive Characteristics
Purchasing info

3. Expected outcome Understanding the applications and markets for Radian
Understanding competition and key features and benefits
Understanding how Radian works and how it can be configured and controlled
Being able to present the Radian solution to a customer
Being able to put together a proposal with the right components

4. Introduction
Radian is a high performance chassis based video wall solution designed for Control Rooms and other mission critical environments

5. Overview Multi-User | Multi-Wall | Any video input Video Wall
Sources
Multi-User | Multi-Wall | Any video input
HDMI, DVI, DisplayPort
Ethernet/H.264
Component, Composite
SDI, VGA
Video Wall
Processor
Operator Stations

6. Key features and benefits
100s of inputs through flexible expansion chassis
Up to 64 screens
Freely position & scale content anywhere on the wall
Control multiple walls from the same interface
Multiple users and user rights management
4K60 input and HDCP compliant input and output
H.264 streaming support for flexible display of remote IP sources

7. Components

8. Radian™ Video Wall Chassis
Designed for 24/7 operations
11 slot chassis with Intel® Core i7: VWP-2110
9 slot chassis with Intel® Core i7: VWP-2090
4 Slot chassis with Intel® Core i5: VWP-2040
Windows 7 OS
16 GB RAM
Redundant PSUs

9. Output cards Use in all Radian Video Wall Chassis.
Supports digital video capture windows.
HDCP supported
(4) outputs supporting resolutions up to 2560 x 1600 at 60 Hz or
(2) outputs supporting resolutions of 4K (UHD) at 30 Hz.
Part numbers
VGC-DP port DisplayPort (DP)
VGC-DP-4-D DP w/ active DVI adapters
VGC-DP-4-H DP w/ active HDMI adapters

10. Input cards
Features four independent video capture channels supporting HD capture.
HDCP supported when used with Radian graphics cards
Supports resolutions up to 1920x1200
DMS59 connectors
Comes with adapters for DVI or HDMI inputs
Part numbers
VCC-HD port DVI/RGB/HD
VCC-HD-4-H 4-port HD w/ HDMI
VCC-HD-4-D 4-port HD w/ DVI

11. Other input cards Input Cards VCC-SD-HD-A-2 HD + SD + AM2
VCC-SD-HD port SD
VCC-SDI-SD-HD-3 HD + HD-SDI + SD
VCC-DP port DisplayPort 4K
VCC-SDI port 3G-SDI
VCC-STREAM port Ethernet

12. System Expansion
PCIe is the switching fabric within the backplane technology.
Expansion is achieved by an 11-slot expansion chassis connected via Host Link & Slave Link cards and an expansion cable. (Copper is included, up to 100m with optional fiber link)
Expansion chassis contain a backplane and a power supply only. All control remains with the main Wall Controller
Main Wall Controller plus 2 x Expansion Chassis in a single PCIe network topology creating a single system with an expanded number of slots
Display Wall
Sources
Recommended that Capture and Graphics cards are distributed evenly throughout the system

13. Multi-Stream Capability
Up to 16 independent streams and destinations from a single capture; each one capable of being utilized differently:
Examples: Screen Preview, Wall Display, Disk Recording, Encoding. All destination clients can have varying color formats, cropping rectangles, scale factors and frame rates.
Capture
Scale
Transform
Crop

14. Radian Wall Processor with
H.264 / IP Stream Decoding
VCC-STREAM card with VWS-2002 software is used to display H.264 sources
Up to (3) 4K or (12) 1080p streams per card (6x1080p streams per port)
Any H.264 device can be used as a source
IP Camera
H.264 hardware encoder
Screen scraping software
Ideal for traffic control, video surveillance, back-up video walls
IP Camera
Radian Wall Processor with
VCC-STREAM
H.264 Encoder PC
Software
Decoding
H.264 Video Recorder

15. H.264 Decoding Capacity Per Card Stream Decode Capacity
Systems with multiple cards will automatically load balance decode processing
Name
Resolution
Frames / Sec
Streams Per Card
4K / QHD
4096 x 2160 60 1 30 3
WQXGA
2560 x 1600 6
FHD / 1080p
1920 x 1080 12
720p
1280 x 720 14 28
VGA
640 x 480 43
50*
* Maximum per card

16. Carousels & Pre-Loading
Carousels are windows which switch between multiple pre-determined feeds after a set amount of time.
IP stream carousels are often difficult to achieve as resources are not available to continue to decode the existing stream while starting the decode of the new stream.
Radian H.264 card solves this by adding capacity to allow the simultaneous decoding of both the current stream and the next in the list.
Multiple, simultaneous carousels are supported
Initial Video Decode & Display 
20 seconds
New Decode Is Pre-Loaded
New Decode is Displayed
New Decode is Pre-Loaded

17. Video Wall Display options
Rear Projection Cube wall 50”-80” Cubes
LCD Display Wall 46”-55” Displays
LCD displays have a slightly thicker bezel, but saves both space and cost

18. Software

19. Radian Control Software
Radian Control Software enables a user to control and preview layouts, sources and content from a Windows Client PC.
Also enables external API Control
Requires a physical USB license key per instance
Currently 3 different versions:
Standard – Standard Radian Control Software
Streaming – Additional support for hardware h.264 decoding
Streaming upgrade – upgrade path from standard to streaming version

20. Radian Control Software
Create, Save and Recall wall layouts
Move Capture Sources to the Display Canvas by dragging them across.
Display Canvas & Control Screen
Representation of the display wall including bezels
The Display above is 4 x 3 video wall + a Control Screen
Capture sources can be placed on the wall & resized
A preview in real time of all sources can be seen
List of Capture Sources
Active Sources are Highlighted in Green
Available IP Cameras are listed Below

21. Radian Control Software
Video Wall
Radian Control Software
Easily view and control available capture and IP-Cameras sources.
Open windows onto the Video Wall Canvas and manipulate them in real time
Drag and drop, position and scale windows.
Add or remove borders , menu, title bar and other properties.
Change sources, add OSD, and set cropping.
Control third-party applications
Carousel for Standard and IP-Camera windows - cycle through a list of sources or cameras within a single window
Powerful Command Line interface support
Control the System remotely
Connect to the system through the network using Wall Control
Control the wall from an external controller IP
Network
Remote PC
Control Screen

22. Video Wall
Wall Control 10
Wall Control 10 is the new, upcoming version of the control software.
Launch frame is Q4 2016
3 versions will be available
Demo version - fully functional for evaluation. Cannot connect to an actual Radian system
Wall Control 10 Standard – Standard versions which will support ALL features except:
Multi Wall
Limited to 8 simultaneous IP decodes (VNC + SQX decoder)
Wall Control 10 PRO – Fully featured with multi wall access and unlimited number of IP decodes

23. Video Wall
Wall Control 10
Multi-wall The ability for multiple walls to be defined and driven from a single VSN system and multiple walls to be viewable within a single WallControl10 interface

24. Wall Control 10 User Rights Management Video Wall
Using Windows Domain Registers users can be assigned “Roles” on a per wall basis, each role can determine what each user can do on a particular wall

25. Wall Control 10 Networked Wall discovery Video Wall
Each Wall on a Radian system is discoverable on a network. A user logging in will be able to see all the walls that they have been granted access to

26. Wall Control 10 Templates Video Wall
The ability to define and deploy templates across a screen, multiple screens or the whole wall for content to be dropped into quickly and easily

27. Wall Control 10 User Notifications Video Wall
The MS Windows driven confirmation boxes have been replaced by notification bubbles or “Toast notifications” that will appear at the bottom of the screen

28. Wall Control 10 VNC Support Video Wall
A VNC Viewer will be included as a part of Wall Control 10

29. Wall Control 10 Other features: Source independent windows
Video Wall
Wall Control 10
Other features:
Source independent windows
Any source type can be placed in any window, so a media file can be replaced by a Vision capture. Carrousels can now be a mixture of source types
Predefined Window defaults
All windows will be displayed as per their setting, e.g. with or without border, at 1080p at true color
Layout availability
WallControl10 will show available layout files even from a remote PC
Source Tags & Search
Now each source can be tagged with multiple search terms
Particularly important for IP cameras which can cover many miles
Provide each source multiple Tags and search through them to view the ones needed
Action Logging
Each VSN system, and each wall within the system will generate an action log over time

30. Markets and Applications

31. Target Markets Defense Utilities – Generation, Distribution
Oil & Gas – Exploration, Refining, Pipeline
Manufacturing
Public Safety
Traffic Management
Networking & Telecom

32. Applications Operators IP Cameras (h.264) Server IP Camera 1
Simple – Singular, independent, Video Wall operators visualizing real-time information only
IP Camera 2
Web Application
IP Cameras (h.264)
Operators
Server

33. Applications Room One Room Two
Networked Operations – Multiple control rooms within the same LAN infrastructure, operators would like to view and share, real-time sources in multiple Control Rooms simultaneously
IP Camera 1
IP Camera 1
IP Camera 2
IP Camera 2
Web Application
IP Cameras
Operators
Servers
Optical Cable
Slave Controller

34. Applications
Shared Operations– Multi-site Control Rooms that would like to be able to simultaneously view their own sources, receive sources from secondary locations and to provide their own sources with secondary locations

35. Example setup KVM Matrix Video Wall Processor Multi-viewer
Control System
Single Keyboard & Mouse

36. ControlBridge™ Drag & Drop Control Pre-Defined Layouts
Any source to any:
Video Wall Window
Desktop Monitor
Video Encoder
Video Recorder
Single interface for all operator systems

37. Example Configurations
Example configurations using high density cards, each with 4 inputs or outputs and DVI adapters:
Inputs
Screens
Chassis
Example cards
List Price 8 4
VWP-2040
(2) VCC-HD-4-D + (1) VGC-HD-4-D
$14,239
(2) VCC-HD-4-D + (2) VGC-HD-4-D
$16,349 16
VWP-2090
(2) VCC-HD-4-D + (4) VGC-HD-4-D
$22,790
(4) VCC-HD-4-D + (4) VGC-HD-4-D
$28,898

38. Competitive Characteristics

39. Architectures
100% IP based systems are flexible and scalable, but a large number of software based nodes also cause unwanted complexity and affects overall reliability…
Features
IP based – Fully IP based system with separate display nodes
Chassis – Chassis with conventional I/O cards
Hybrid – Chassis with streaming support
Performance
Good
Excellent
Reliability
Bad
Complexity
Flexibility
Low
Scalability
Price

40. Key competitors Competitor Model OS Max I/O Streaming Max res Software
HDCP
Cost
Christie
Spyder X20
n/a
16 x 8 no
2560x1600
Windows No
$60K+
RGB Spectrum
MediaWall
60 x 12
H.264 or VNC
1920x1200
$2K-$4K extra
$20K-$100K
Barco
Transform ECU-200
XXX x 64 4K
Windows (Wall Ctrl)
Yes
$20K +
Planar
Clarity VCS
$15K +
Hiperwall
Proprietary
$???
Black Box
Radian

41. Ordering information Order from Black Box UK Typical lead time 2 weeks
Video wall controllers are built and configured to spec including I/O cards, Black Box drivers and Black Box software.
All units go through 48 hours of burn in testing prior to shipping