- Client: U.S. Army, Fort Bragg, NC
- Location: Fort Bragg, NC
- Scope: A fully rugged, deployable 8-display video wall built into road cases for military field applications, with spare panels and power supplies included
- Platform: Planar ultra-narrow-bezel LCD panels, tvONE CORIOmaster processing
- Timeline: Awarded early 2021, warranty started March 2021
Background
Some video walls live in one room for a decade. This one was built to go wherever it's needed. Fort Bragg required a video wall system that wasn't bolted to a wall — a display capable of being packed, moved, set up, and struck like a piece of field equipment, without giving up the image quality of a fixed installation.
The situation
The Army needed an 8-display video wall that could travel — built into rugged, ATA-rated cases rather than mounted permanently, with the processing and networking hardware to run it as a single coherent display once it was set back up wherever it landed.
What made it hard
A fixed video wall gets calibrated once and stays that way. A mobile one gets packed up, transported, unpacked, and reassembled — potentially many times over its service life — and still needs to look like one seamless display every time, not eight separate screens with visible gaps and misalignment. That meant selecting hardware built for repeated setup and teardown, not display panels designed to be mounted once and left alone.
How we designed it
The wall itself uses Planar VM55LX-U ultra-narrow-bezel LCD panels — a display line built with a 3.5mm tiled bezel width and rated for 24/7 mission-critical use, exactly the durability profile a field-deployed system needs. Processing runs through a tvONE C3-540 CORIOmaster, a modular 4K multi-window video wall processor capable of treating all eight displays as one coordinated canvas rather than eight independent feeds. A Cisco managed switch handles network connectivity, and control runs through a Crestron touch panel programmed specifically for this system's setup and teardown cycle.
The whole system — displays, processor, switch, and a Furman M-8LX power conditioner — packs into Jelco RotoLift mobile lift cases and SKB compact ATA road cases, purpose-built for equipment that has to survive repeated transport rather than sitting in a rack for years untouched.
Equipment
| Component | Model | Function |
|---|---|---|
| Display panels | Planar VM55LX-U, x8 | 55" ultra-narrow-bezel LCD, 3.5mm tiled bezel |
| Video wall processing | tvONE C3-540 CORIOmaster | Modular 4K multi-window processor |
| Networking | Cisco SG250-10P managed switch | System network backbone |
| Power | Furman M-8LX power conditioner | Rack-mounted power conditioning |
| Transport cases | Jelco RotoLift, SKB compact ATA cases | Rugged, repeated-transport rated |
The rollout
The contract was awarded in early 2021, with the system's workmanship warranty starting that March. Government-specific documentation — IT coordination records tracking every device's serial number, MAC address, and network configuration — was built into the closeout package from the start, standard practice for equipment a government facility needs to track precisely.
Built for field use, not just field-tolerant
A system meant for military field applications doesn't get the luxury of a quick service call when something fails in a deployed environment. Fort Bragg's build accounts for that directly: spare display panels and spare power supplies are kept on hand as part of the system, so a failed component in the field gets swapped rather than waited on. That's a different design philosophy than a fixed installation, where a service technician is usually a phone call away — here, the spares travel with the system itself.
Can a video wall be built to travel instead of staying mounted in one place?
Yes — Fort Bragg's system uses ultra-narrow-bezel Planar panels rated for repeated setup and teardown, housed in rugged Jelco and SKB transport cases, so the wall can be packed, moved, and reassembled while still lining up as one seamless display each time.
What does a video wall processor actually do for a multi-panel display?
The tvONE C3-540 CORIOmaster at Fort Bragg treats all eight panels as one coordinated canvas, letting content span across the whole wall or split into separate windows, rather than each display running as an independent, unsynchronized screen.
Why does mobile AV equipment need more detailed IT documentation?
Fort Bragg's system shipped with a full record of every device's serial number, MAC address, and network configuration — the kind of detail that matters when equipment moves between locations and network environments rather than staying connected to the same network permanently.
Should a deployed AV system include spare parts, or just rely on a service call if something fails?
For equipment meant for field applications, spares travel with the system — Fort Bragg's video wall includes spare display panels and spare power supplies as part of the build, so a failure in the field gets resolved with a swap rather than a wait for a technician who may not be reachable.
Technology partners on this project
Creation Networks, Inc. — nationwide commercial AV integrator, CTS-D certified, based in Concord, CA and Incline Village, NV. Design, engineering, programming, installation, and support from a single point of contact since 2006. Call 888-230-3661 or email sales@creationnetworks.net.
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