CAT as DMX-multicore for event- and entertaintment technologies
LAN-cables and CatCore offer a wide variety of advantages for media and event applications.
Low price, worldwide availability and tiny outer dimensions are one step ahead to comparable cabling systems.
There is no "wrong" direction - define the direction of your signals by choosing your breakout-boxes and looms.
CatCore can easily combine equipment of different brands.
![input loom for 4x DMX at the lighting-console, shown with an AVOLITES Pearl XLR over ethernet snake loom box](/images/bsp-b-CatCore-dmx-over-cat-adapter-avo.JPG)
FOH / DMX / Intercom Multicore
Quad-multicore, economic solution for connecting FOH and Dimmercities by using internal dmx outputs,
or keeping dmx-processors and nodes centralized at the FOH.
- Ideal for use as guest- or cross-core at festivals and major events
- Intercom multicore for transmitting several separate analogue lines
- 3/5pin twin row boxes save adapters
- Small Ethercon connector tends less to get stuck when cable being pulled compared to multipins or snakes.
Run DMX down long distances via cat-lines
Using Cat5(e), or Cat 6/7 wires lets you run signals over hundreds of meters in one piece,
whilst normal IP based protocols as hognet or artnet needs to be carried via LWL or refreshed every appx. 100 meters for long distance runs.
Structurized dmx-cabling for trusses
- Simple connection of trusses and separated areas with up to four universes in one feed.
- Separate line for each fixture type per truss possible
- Integrated M10 thread for trussmount via spigots or clamps
![CatCore Stagebox SMD3F5F for DMX over Cat5e with paralleled 3 and 5pin XLR sockets, mounting via superclamp on truss XLR over Cat5 snake Loom stagebox](/images/bsp-b-catcore-dmx-over-cat-stagebox.jpg)
Centralized DM procesing
- Saves decentralized nodes that are providing few universes locally
- Clean setup for driveracks and splitter racks
- DMX-nodes can stay at FOH for direct access at smaller setups
![CatCore Rackbox RSD3F5F for two universes, shown with Luminex 8port node XLR over ethernet multicore snake](/images/bsp-b-CatCore-dmx-over-cat-patchbay.JPG)
Programming-core on stage
- Easy to use for temporary snakes for programming on stage - no more.
- Cost effective core to place your desk outside the FOH for programming blind spot areas
Properly fixed with hooks, safeties or spigot
- Inique fixing abilities for mounting with hooks, cable ties or velcro.
- Additional holes allow fixing safety wires as necessary according to different national standards.
![CatCore DMX Breakout Box SMD3F5F with safety-wire and Superclamp DMX over ethercon snake stagebox safety](/images/bsp-b-CatCore-dmx-over-cat-Stagebox-safety.JPG)
CatCore as integrated 3-/5-pin adapter
- Double-boxes with 3-/5-pin DMX make adaptors obsolete
Connect DMX to CAT directly at the console
- fix easily with rivets or screws in your deskcase
- Standard-setup always "on board"
- Due to explicite markings no need for labelling via tapes, and no crosschecking lines with blurred labels.
- Good visibility even in low light environments thanks to colored markings , following RGBW-scheme. (red-green-black[instead of blue]-white)