Hayward, CA –Pakedge Device & Software, the market leader in networks designed for the AV industry, is announcing the addition of several Routers, Switches and Wireless Access Points to the Control4® Recommended Networking Products list. This announcement is part of an ongoing Pakedge Alliance Initiative to establish an ecosystem of verified compatible solutions in order to minimize integration and installation issues for installers in an increasingly network-centric AV industry.

“A reliable, high performance network is critical to successful operation of residential and commercial automation and control systems,” says Benson Chan, VP of Business Development at Pakedge. “As Pakedge introduces networking solutions into the marketplace, one of our topmost priorities is to continuously ensure compatibility with major control system solutions so that installers won’t face any issues out in the field. Having our products on the Control4 Recommended Networking Products list enables installers to have confidence in the quality and reliability of the Pakedge enterprise class network equipment they are using with the Control4 systems.”

The Pakedge products on the Control4 Recommended Networking Products list include:

• RE1 – 4 port Gigabit enterprise class router
• K60D – 7 port Gigabit enterprise class router
• W6 series – 802.11n single band (2.4 GHz) Wireless Access Point
• W7 series – 802.11n dual band (2.4, 5.0 GHz) Wireless Access Point
• S18e – 16 port Gigabit unmanaged switch
• S20fe – 16 port Gigabit unmanaged switch with front ports
• S26e – 24 port Gigabit unmanaged switch
• S28fe – 24 port Gigabit unmanaged switch with front ports
• S8P4e – 8 port Gigabit unmanaged switch with 4 PoE ports, front ports
• S8P4fe – 8 port Gigabit unmanaged switch with 4 PoE ports, front ports
• S5Wpde – 5 port Gigabit unmanaged switch, powerable by PoE
• S8Wpde – 8 port Gigabit unmanaged switch, powerable by PoE
• S8Hav – 8 port Gigabit managed switch, with 8 PoE+ ports
• S24av – 24 port Gigabit managed switch
• S24f – 24 port Gigabit managed switch, with front ports
• S24Hf – 24 port Gigabit managed switch, with 24 PoE ports (or 12 PoE+ ports), front ports
• S24Hav – 24 port Gigabit managed switch, with 24 PoE ports (or 12 PoE+ ports)
• S24P8av – 24 port Gigabit managed switch, with 8 PoE ports
• S24P16av – 24 port Gigabit managed switch, with 16 PoE ports
• S8Mpd – 8 port Gigabit managed switch, powerable by PoE

For more information on Pakedge, visit www.pakedge.com. For further details on Control 4, visit www.control4.com.