D-Link Lends Network Performance to UC Irvine for Breakthrough Hiperwall Video Wall Display

FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA, Jun 10 (MARKET WIRE) --
Hiperwall is a mammoth video display -- a dazzling wall built of numerous
high-definition monitors, each with its own embedded computer for
displaying standard and large (up to one gigabyte or larger) graphic
images, high-definition (HD) digital movies, and streaming content from
video cameras and other live feeds.

The key breakthrough of the Hiperwall system is a distributed software
architecture that overcomes the performance limitations typically
associated with the display of large or numerous items on multiple display
devices. The result is a high-performance, high-resolution visualization
system that provides high scalability without requiring the need for any
specialized hardware infrastructure. This creates multiple technical and
business advantages, such as customized manipulation of the content on the
screen.

When readying the impressive display for customer demonstrations at
Hiperwall company headquarters, located in a lab on the UC Irvine campus,
CEO Jeff Greenberg and his team ran into a snag. They needed to seamlessly
stream various types of content -- including unicast, multicast and
broadcast formats -- to the display, but were experiencing 'flooding'
because the existing switch and router equipment could not efficiently
handle the content flow.

"It wasn't working exactly as we hoped because the equipment could not
handle the combination of data types displayed on the wall," said
Greenberg. "We needed a solution that could handle the traffic without
sacrificing performance."

"We were having problems accessing the Internet through our gateway and
receiving DHCP services from our router," Greenberg said. "Our existing
network infrastructure could not handle the traffic and we ended up with
intermittent access to critical network resources."

Greenberg decided to switch to D-Link(R) networking equipment because of a
previous relationship between D-Link and UCI. His team installed D-Link
Managed 48-Port Gigabit Stackable Switching and D-Link Gigabit Routing,
after which D-Link engineers visited the site, made some standard changes
to the switch configuration and installed a firmware upgrade.

"The D-Link equipment delivered all of the performance we hoped for,
giving our network the ability to effortlessly handle our demanding mix of
unicast, multicast and broadcast traffic, while delivering uninterrupted
access to all of our network resources," Greenberg said.

With the D-Link equipment Greenberg now can confidently demonstrate
Hiperwall's cutting edge capabilities to potential customers, including
resizing and relocating each content object anywhere on the video wall,
within a single monitor or across multiple monitors. Hiperwall also
provides advanced capabilities like zoom, rotation, shading and
transparency, enabling users to examine content with increased flexibility
and effectiveness.

"With this switch/router combination in place, now we can do everything we
set out to do," he added. "It solved all our problems."

About D-Link

D-Link is the global leader in connectivity for small, medium and large
enterprise business networking. The company is an award-winning designer,
developer and manufacturer of networking, broadband, digital electronics,
voice, data and video communications solutions for the digital home, Small
Office/Home Office (SOHO), Small to Medium Business (SMB), and Workgroup
to Enterprise environments. With millions of networking and connectivity
products manufactured and shipped, D-Link is a dominant market participant
and price/performance leader in the networking and communications market.
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