| Product Spotlight – Introducing Icron's USB Ranger® 2200 Family
High-speed USB 2.0 extenders over Cat 5 and Fiber Optics at distances up to 10km, offering simple, cost effective connectivity solutions ideal for Industrial, Commercial and Medical Markets.
This month, Icron announced announced its new USB Ranger® 2200 family of products:
All products are available as Turnkey OEM PCBs enabling customers to embed ExtremeUSB® into their own solutions.
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Icron Buzz Winners of BCTIA – Most Promising Pre-Commercial Technology
 Icron’s USB over DisplayPort technology for desktop and mobile computing has been recognized by BCTIA (British Columbia Technology Industry Association) for the most promising pre-commercial technology – what an honour!
Not only did we win this prestigious award, this technology was a finalist in the category “Excellence in Product Innovation”.
“We are pleased to recognize Icron for its innovative USB over DisplayPort technology,” stated Pascal Spothelfer, BCTIA President and CEO. “Icron’s unique emerging technology presented the most promising potential to commercialize and succeed over the next few years,” added Spothelfer. Read more> 
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Partner Spotlight: PC Video, USB and the Real World
As Icron enters the USB over DisplayPort and KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) Video+USB Extender markets, we decided to conduct research into the PC video market. After reading analyst reports and forecasts (e.g. In-Stat), and speaking with various Silicon companies and small/large OEM’s organizations, we discovered some very interesting findings in the projections for video format adoption market
From this research we concluded:
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DisplayPort adoption is coming and it will be huge. Even though the number is a bit off to what was initially predicted, analysts say over 600 million DP chips will be developed for the upcoming transition.
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While DisplayPort monitors are currently high end cost, in 2011 they will start to spill over into consumer higher volume, lower cost models A large number of monitors already have USB functionality including USB hubs and/or integrated touchscreens and webcams
USB + DisplayPort technology will be coming to monitors
HDMI output ports, which are used to connect your laptop to your TV, are still strong in consumer laptops
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VGA is not going away as fast as people think, with non-EU and US countries still embracing it strongly
DVI is still a great video technology and is especially strong in Europe. DVI markets will take some time to transition to other video formats (e.g. HDMI/DP)
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