The Crestron AV2 dual bus control system is a completely new solution-driven control technology that's also a network information control system. It's the budget-conscious solution for even the most complex control applications like media help desks, videoconferencing, distance learning, and entertainment facilities.

At the heart of the Crestron AV2 dual bus control system is the breakthrough 2-Series Control Engine, based on the hot new 257 MIPS, 32-bit Motorola ColdFire® processor. Onboard 34MB memory is enhanced with a 4GB expansion slot that supports off-the-shelf Type II compact flash memory and the IBM Microdrive® hard disk drive, for on-board storage of program and touchpanel files, room and equipment profiles, upgrades, databases and schedules.

Crestron's unique Dual Bus system, with its high-speed I/O bus architecture, provides blazing fast throughput, system wide. This Dual Bus architecture also lets you upgrade to new, higher performance expansion cards, while still using your existing cards and software pro-grams. The 40Mb/s Y-Bus supports existing CNX control cards and serves as the pipeline for IR, serial communications and relays. And the 300Mb/s Z-Bus is designed for super high speed control card applications such as 10/100 Ethernet, and future USB, USBII, FireWire, disk drive arrays and more.

The Crestron AV2 dual bus control system also provides true secure network communications required for today's corporate networks and the Internet with a variety of plug-in 10/100 Ethernet cards. Using the dual port Ethernet card, a built-in Firewall delivers the ultimate in security, with on-board Network Address Translator (NAT) and Router functions. It supports static IP addressing and full duplex TCP/IP and UDP/IP, and offers a WAN port for Internet and Corporate-wide communications and a LAN port for Room and AV Private Network use. And the built-in Web Server provides the ultimate in help desk functions, and uses memory storage on a compact flash card for remote access and control.

The 2-Series real-time operating system is vastly upgraded, yet compatible with existing Crestron software and programming. A key feature is the Crestron Compiler, which allows any existing Crestron SIMPL™ Windows® control program to be easily recompiled for the 2-Series. The real-time, preemptive multi-tasking/multi-threaded operating system offers a FAT32 file system with long file names for easy and open file management. And the enhanced SIMPL+™ instruction set is also fully compatible with existing Crestron SIMPL™ Windows® and SIMPL+™ programs.

With its blinding speed, massive memory and revolutionary Dual Bus architecture, the AV2 is built from the ground up for high performance, secure Internet communications and Dynamic Expansion Capabilities. Designed for reliability and reinforced by Crestron's True Blue Customer Support, it's part of the complete Crestron line of advanced solutions for audio/video/Internet distribution and control.

 Crestron AV2 Dual Bus Remote Control System