Wiring
is the most challenging job in any CCTV or security and surveillance
system. Heavy gauge cable hookups and installation is time consuming,
laborious, and expensive. Degradation of the video performance due to
noise pick-up, ground loops, signal loss, high-frequency roll-off, reflections,
group delay distortion, and other maladies has been an issue with long
cables. Attempts to alleviate these problems by using very expensive
cables costing several dollars / ft. or more still do not address the
noise, hum, and signal attenuation issues.
Pragmatic's CATS™ system is a new standard that overcomes the
inherent problems with today's heavy gauge cables and traditional video
distribution systems. CATS™ Video is a high performance system
for the distribution of broadcast quality video signals on economical
category 3 or category 5 wires. It is based on Pragmatic's proprietary
Bandwidth Domain Signal Processing [BDSP™] technology. The BDSP™
technology enables transmission of the highest quality video signals
on a standard category 5 or un-shielded twisted pair wires up to 1000
ft. without any loss in the performance, dynamic range or quality.
The state-of-the-art BDSP™ technology completely eliminates ground
loops, noise pick-up or hum at the end of the transmission distance.
It also provides for superb video reproduction, and high resolution
to fine details in the picture quality. The CATS™ Video system
is the ultimate in video signal distribution. Up to 16 receivers can
be daisy-chained or tapped on to the category 5 wires. The CATS™
system transmitter accepts video signals from any high quality camera.
The CATS™ system receiver recovers the signal from the wires and
reproduces the original video signal utilizing the BDSP™ technology.
There are numerous advantages of the CATS™ system. First, it allows
the multi-point distribution and broadcasting of video signals to any
location within 1000 ft. on a category 5 wire. Up to 16 receivers can
be connected in parallel or daisy-chained together on a single wire
to provide a complete omnipresent network. The range can be extended
to multiple miles or receivers by configuring a simple repeater system.
The applications of CATS™ are endless. It can be used for Home
Theater video distribution, broadcast TV video distribution, CCTV, perimeter
monitoring, prison system, airport security, school campuses, hospitals,
and many more.
The CATS™ Video distribution system is designed to be a companion
to our CATS™Audio distribution system.
Both systems can share the same cable.
To complement the CATS™ wireline system, the TrueView™
high performance wireless video transmission system can also be used
for remote extensions where installing category 5 wires is not an option.
