So I am speccing out our new office , and I really want to get rid of workstations under the desk, i dont want to deal with teradici or hpz either.
We have about 5 workstations to be connected this way
I dont have long ways to the machineroom which helps of course , 30m tops for cable runs.
So my first thinking was: thunderbolt fibre cables but those things are 500€ EACH + 300€? for a docking station… and i have to deal with all the thunderbolt nightmares so thats not even a option.
So instead - I am thinking of running 2 USB-C and 1 HDMI fibre cable to each desk.
each cable is maybe ~100€ less for the shorter runs, no thunderbolt nightmare.
HDMI for the decklink output and 2 usb-C for the 2 monitors , the monitors would have a buildin usb hub and audio out etc so that saves me from buying a docking station, daisy chaining monitors is too sketchy for my blood and we have a mix of mac/win/linux …
Anyone doing something like this? I have no idea what “professional” extenders are my other options but I doubt they will be cheaper and more solid than what I am planning? I mean multiple cables == no software == no switching == no drivers …
We use a bunch of the DisplayPort/ HDMI fiber cables off Amazon (US). They are great, and even 200foot cables are still like $125 USD. I’ve not found any good USB3/C extenders, but there are many USB2 ones that are fine for Keyboard/Mouse/Wacom.
interesting, yea I might have to go usb 2.0 fibre and displayport/hdmi all seperately was hoping to get away with usb-c for both video and usb but i cant find out if those cables work for anything but diplay, I doubt it.
Keyboard and tablet are USB-2. They are rarely a problem, and when they do act up, a power cycle fixes it. HD with embedded audio is SDI to the Sony monitor with an HDMI to the LG out of a BMD 6g mini converter. 4K to the LG is via 100’ fiber run with camplex senders and receivers. The UI monitor is fiber via Geffen display port-to-fiber senders and receivers. The Geffens are fucking expensive, but we didn’t have very good experiences with any others.
These things are amazing. Lot’s of different brands on Amazon. We have a bunch of them, all are amazing. Way cheaper and support higher Rez than the Geffens.
yea geffen is more complicated than it has to be , definetely looking for straight up cables, i wonder if anyone is doing optical USB-C and if that also transfers data or just video?