Case Study: WWE achieves enhanced production efficiency with Black Box Network Services' high-performance KVM

WWE Enhances Production Efficiency with High Performance KVM

WWE, a global sports-entertainment broadcaster producing hundreds of program hours from a multi-building Stamford campus, faced an aging KVM infrastructure that was limited to 64 ports, suffered unreliable line ties and poor analog VGA video quality over distance, and kept graphics on a separate matrix. WWE needed a high-performance KVM solution that supported multiple high-resolution screens, simplified user management, and scaled to add engineering and operator systems — and selected Black Box Network Services to design and deliver the upgrade.

Black Box Network Services implemented a high-performance KVM overhaul—wiring Cat6 throughout and installing a 288‑port switch populated with 246 TX/RX units (plus a 48‑port switch with 36 TX/RX for an extra control room) and an eight‑in‑one extender to drive eight screens from a single box—covering 130 nonlinear-edit systems, 27 graphics workstations and multiple control rooms in a three-month buildout. The new Black Box Network Services system eliminated latency (video/control equal to direct connection), gave producers transparent access to hundreds of computers from one station, enabled a central ingest GFX KVM for seamless AVID and EVS workflows, and delivered measurable workflow flexibility and cost savings.

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Jasper Veldhuis

Director of Broadcast Engineering