After a full year of supporting deployments of DXLink solutions, it has become clear that using unshielded cables is problematic. Installations with unshielded cable often have reliability issues with the DXLink connection caused by changing environmental conditions. Therefore, our revised minimum required cable type for DXLink systems is shielded CAT6, and its installation follows the recommended guidelines in this document.
DXLink™ delivers 10.2 Gb/s throughput over shielded category cable. It accomplishes this by leveraging the transport layer of HDBaseT technology. DXLink is state-of-the-art technology capable of delivering audio/video content at distances up to 100 meters when properly deployed and configured. The following white paper provides detailed information on how cable quality, cable topology, and the environment affect the performance of DXLink systems. In summary, suffice it to say that looping, poor cable end termination, using patch blocks, inadequate grounding of the cable/rack/building, and running cables near noisy devices will negatively affect the quality of the signal path and cause issues such as offline events and blinking of video. Below are some helpful guidelines to follow when deploying your DXLink system.
