4 ways Barco Infinipix boosts the reliability of your LED wall

When investing in an LED video wall, nothing matters more than reliability. You want your wall to perform consistently without interruption. While the display quality is crucial, the LED processor is equally important for maintaining operation. When the processor fails, the display goes dark. Here are four key reliability features integrated into the Infinipix™ Gen2 LED processor.

As pioneers in direct-view LED visualization for over 25 years, Barco understands both the market and products comprehensively – including their strengths and potential weaknesses. With video processing expertise at our core (as market leaders in live events with the Event Master range), we know exactly what matters to users who depend on these systems.

Superior processing has been a hallmark of our LED technology for years. Introduced in 2014, Barco Infinipix revolutionized direct-view LED image quality. Described by users as "The Rolls Royce of image processing", this device ensures impeccable color representation in any environment, even when the wall is highly dimmed. Infinipix Gen2, released in 2022, builds on this foundation, introducing several new features that further enhance reliability.

Cables are a necessary evil. Not only do they tend to tangle and create visual clutter, but they're also known points of failure. The more cables needed to connect an LED wall to the image processor, the greater the risk of malfunction. Infinipix Gen2 is designed to handle 5G bandwidth transmission over long distances via fiber. When paired with a 1G receiver card, Barco's high bandwidth mode algorithm boosts this capacity to 3.6G. This enhancement allows for 3.6 times more data to be transferred through a single cable, enabling you to drive more tiles with fewer cable runs and reducing potential points of failure.

This design reduces potential failure points, lowers costs, and minimizes clutter. Additionally, it frees up ports on the Infinipix processor that can be used for redundancy options—further enhancing system reliability without additional costs (apart from the extra cabling).

In conventional systems, the data path is a daisy chain, meaning that the data flows from one tile to the other. If this path is interrupted in one tile, all other tiles in the chain go black – much like a chain of Christmas lights.

Infinipix’ patented 4-way failover eliminates the possibility of data path interruption, as every LED tile maintains data connections with all neighboring tiles. If any link breaks, the tile automatically receives the signal from a surrounding tile, ensuring continuous operation without any glitch or interruption.

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst—especially in critical environments. This means having a backup plan for  panels, cables, processors and controllers. Barco offers comprehensive redundancy options to ensure continued operation of your wall. These include processor redundancy (where a spare processor takes over if the primary one fails) and redundant cabling—in addition to the 4-way failover system and easy replacement of defective tiles.

Ensuring uptime also means displaying the correct content on your wall. This includes protecting against malicious intrusions that might attempt to take control of the video wall. Barco takes security seriously. Infinipix Gen2 was designed and manufactured in Europe, in facilities certified to ISO27001 standards. Our products undergo rigorous cybersecurity testing to ensure protection against evolving threats.

We see this awareness on cybersecurity also growing in the market. The number of customers specifically asking about security measures is rising exponentially. Especially large companies, operating on a global scale, are converging to a global type of network, where every product that touches this network must be ‘pen tested’ and cyber certified – both from a hardware and software perspective. This is all the case with Infinipix Gen2, which therefore significantly contributes to keeping LED video walls operational—an absolute necessity in critical environments. 

Later in this series, we will have a dedicated article on security, diving deeper into this fascinating and crucial topic.

In our next article, we'll explore the accuracy of visualization in depth. If you have questions or would like to discuss further, please contact us!

Or meet us at InfoComm 2025 (Orlando, 11-13 June), where we will showcase how Infinipix "Paints it perfectly"!