Network & Communication

Industry-Leading KVM that Consumes Zero Rack Space

The Emerald ZeroU DVI Transmitter is a high-performance KVM solution that consumes zero rack space, enabling you to add more critical IT equipment to your data center. This transmitter works with the Emerald SE Receiver to provide a seamless desktop experience anywhere on a TCP/IP network while allowing the actual hardware to be securely housed in a corporate data center.

Emerald enables the same high fidelity experience of a desktop PC even for media-rich applications, like watching videos, photo editing with Photoshop, or 3D design with AutoCAD. Best of all, Emerald ZeroU is developed and manufactured by Black Box, so you can trust its build, performance, and reliability.

Visually Lossless Video

This powerful KVM solution delivers the high-definition video quality users today require to perform their jobs. It supports visually lossless DVI video up to 1920 x 1200.

Central Management

As with all other Emerald components, the ZeroU Transmitter is managed by our award-winning Boxilla KVM Manager and is fully interoperable with the Emerald SE Receivers.

Low Bandwidth Requirements

Emerald ZeroU provides outstanding KVM functionality without impacting your network performance. It requires less than 40 Mbps to provide 1080p video and fast switching speeds.

USB Powered

The ZeroU Transmitter won't clutter your workspace with wires. It is powered over USB, which eliminates the need for extra cables.

Low Smoke, Zero Halogen Cables

Cables on the DVI Zero U Transmitters are constructed with LSZH jackets. LSZH cables may be required in potentially poorly ventilated areas such as onboard aircraft, military vehicles, submarines, and ships.

Industry-Leading KVM
Emerald® PE PoE provides users with a seamless desktop experience anywhere on a TCP/IP network while allowing the actual hardware to be stored in a corporate data center or in the cloud. This robust solution is easy to deploy on standard corporate networks and even across WANs. PE enables the same experience of a desktop PC even for media-rich applications, like video and photo editing.

Emerald PE supports multiple setups: It allows you to link transmitters and receivers in a point-to-point KVM extension over CATx up to 100 meters or even farther using an IP or WAN connection. Or connect multiple transmitters and receivers to an Emerald or IP switch to create a matrix switching setup.

Your Emerald KVM network may start small with a point-to-point extension, but it's infinitely scalable to meet your future needs just by adding endpoints, with no extra chassis or cards required. PE supports up to 32 endpoints with no additional KVM management appliance. For larger deployments, use Boxilla® to manage your enterprise KVM network centrally.

Headache-Free Migration and Scaling
Emerald makes your migration painless, enabling you to scale access infinitely and gradually across buildings, campuses, and more using your existing network infrastructure.

Outstanding Video Quality
Emerald PE supports pixel-perfect HD DVI video with resolutions up to 1920 x 1080. This makes it an ideal solution for applications that require the highest video quality, like medical imaging and control rooms.

Virtualization Support
Emerald PE simplifies access to both physical and virtual servers with high-performance connectivity to virtual machines, supporting VMware® and Microsoft® HyperV®, using RDP 8.1 and RemoteFX.

Simple System Management
Manage bandwidth and user access, deploy new endpoints, update firmware, and more. Emerald PE can be managed via the receiver's OSD or the central KVM management platform Boxilla. Boxilla is a hardware-based management appliance that features a user-friendly, browser-based GUI.

Fail-Safe Operation
Your 24/7 operation requires network resilience. Use the redundant network ports on the Emerald PE units to provide continuous, uninterrupted operation in the event one network experiences loss of service. Connect the endpoints through either two alternative direct links, a direct link, and a network connection or two independent networks.

Multiple Power Options with PoE
Emerald PE supports powering receiver units via Power over Ethernet (PoE) from the transmitter unit or via an external PSU. Use both PoE and an external PSU for redundant power supply.

Works Perfectly with Other KVM Systems
Emerald works seamlessly with the rest of the Emerald product family and these popular Black Box KVM product families:

• DKM proprietary, direct-connect KVM system
• Freedom II Multi-Monitor Switch with Glide and Switch technology
• ControlBridge, our system for one-touch, multisystem control
• Boxilla KVM Manager

Emerald 4K transmitters and receivers deliver pixel-perfect video with HD or 4K/60 resolutions over an IP network.

Users working on the system experience fast and easy-to-use access to their target servers with premium video quality and a rich peripheral set supporting stereo audio and up to any four true emulated USB 2.0 devices including Wacom® tablets. Administrators require comprehensive management with convenient configuration options in line with high-level security and reliable operation.

Emerald 4K Transmitters are infinitely scalable, starting as simple extenders, or part of a smaller switchable matrix over a network, or by adding a Boxilla on the network you can have a KVM over IP switchable system or hundreds or even thousands of devices providing access across locations.

System Design

Emerald comprises of a choice of transmitters connecting computers or virtual machines to the system and receivers adding the user consoles. Uniquely Emerald offers a range the EMS range of Emerald network switches this allows management of the entire KVM network and monitoring of the system down to port level, A range of SFP/SFP+ transceivers prove best performing video quality and KVM extensions over the required distances.

Use the Emerald units featured on this page to connect DisplayPort and consoles with resolutions up to 4K/60, transparent USB 2.0, and bi-directional analog audio to your Emerald system.

Instant access across the whole Enterprise

Emerald makes access simple, enabling you to scale access infinitely and gradually across buildings, campuses, and the wide-area network, using your existing network infrastructure - with switching between sources at speeds of less than half a second.

Digital video at its best

Emerald is the first KVM platform that supports pixel-perfect 4K DisplayPort video at 60 Hz over standard IP network switches using copper or fiber cable. Image transmission with mathematical lossless compression visualizes every single pixel at 60 fps with 8-bit color depth. If you are not ready for 4K yet, start with the Emerald SE or PE options supporting one or two full HD DVI/DP video heads with resolutions up to 1920 x 1200 - and migrate to 4K at your own pace by transitioning individual user groups when the need arises.

Emerald 4K transmitters and receivers deliver pixel-perfect video with HD or 4K/60 resolutions over an IP network.

Users working on the system experience fast and easy-to-use access to their target servers with premium video quality and a rich peripheral set supporting stereo audio and up to any four true emulated USB 2.0 devices including Wacom® tablets. Administrators require comprehensive management with convenient configuration options in line with high-level security and reliable operation.

Emerald 4K Transmitters are infinitely scalable, starting as simple extenders, or part of a smaller switchable matrix over a network, or by adding a Boxilla on the network you can have a KVM over IP switchable system or hundreds or even thousands of devices providing access across locations.

System Design

Emerald comprises of a choice of transmitters connecting computers or virtual machines to the system and receivers adding the user consoles. Uniquely Emerald offers a range the EMS range of Emerald network switches this allows management of the entire KVM network and monitoring of the system down to port level, A range of SFP/SFP+ transceivers prove best performing video quality and KVM extensions over the required distances.

Use the Emerald units featured on this page to connect DisplayPort and consoles with resolutions up to 4K/60, transparent USB 2.0, and bi-directional analog audio to your Emerald system.

Instant access across the whole Enterprise

Emerald makes access simple, enabling you to scale access infinitely and gradually across buildings, campuses, and the wide-area network, using your existing network infrastructure - with switching between sources at speeds of less than half a second.

Digital video at its best

Emerald is the first KVM platform that supports pixel-perfect 4K DisplayPort video at 60 Hz over standard IP network switches using copper or fiber cable. Image transmission with mathematical lossless compression visualizes every single pixel at 60 fps with 8-bit color depth. If you are not ready for 4K yet, start with the Emerald SE or PE options supporting one or two full HD DVI/DP video heads with resolutions up to 1920 x 1200 - and migrate to 4K at your own pace by transitioning individual user groups when the need arises.

Virtualization

As more physical servers are replaced by virtualization allowing greater availability, better scalability, and therefore a higher return on investment. Emerald simplifies access to both physical and virtual servers with virtual machine support for VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix, using RDP, RemoteFX, and PCoIP. Emerald receivers connect to a virtual machine with additional hardware required and no training for the user.

Fail-safe operation

All Emerald 4K and PE transmitters and receivers feature copper or fiber connectivity through two flexible SFP+ slots.

Your 24/7 operation requires network resilience. Use the redundant network ports on the Emerald units to provide continuous, uninterrupted operation in the event one network experiences loss of service. Connect the endpoints either through two alternative direct links, a direct link, and a network connection, or two independent networks.

Network Requirements

For HD video, Emerald requires a standard Gigabit Ethernet network and possibly a 10 Gigabit aggregate switch, depending on how many endpoints you have. For a 4K pixel-perfect video, you'll need a standard 10 Gigabit Ethernet network with a 100 Gigabit aggregate switch. For both, the network infrastructure required by Emerald can be built with IEEE 802.3 standards-based components from Black Box or other manufacturers.

Maximize Your Emerald KVM System

To get the most out of your Emerald® solution, you need to have the right networking equipment in place. The Emerald 24-Port Fiber Network Switch is a power-efficient and resilient Gigabit Ethernet switch designed to optimize the performance of your Emerald system. It features integrated 10-Gbe uplinks for advanced Layer 3 distribution. This switch offers a non-blocking architecture that allows it to handle unexpected traffic loads. On top of all that, the Emerald Network Switch provides performance assurance with a data rate of up to 212 Gbps and a forwarding rate of up to 158 Mbps.

Improve Network Reliability

This Emerald network switch is perfect for critical applications that cannot experience any downtime. Use the switch with dual internal hot-swappable 80PLUS-certified power supplies for high availability and power efficiency.

Simple Management and Scalability

The Emerald 24-Port Fiber Network Switch offers simple management and scalability via an 84-Gbps stacking architecture. You can manage up to 12 switches from a single IP address with ease.

Features the Latest Standard Protocols

This switch offers the latest open-standard protocols and can interface with Cisco protocol PVST+. It also supports Dell Networking OS9, VLT, and network virtualization features.