Jupiter is a Texas-based display-and- visualisation vendor with three product lines that wrap around each other: PixelNet (their AV-over-IP fabric), Catalyst (the wall-processor appliance), and Canvas (the management and collaboration software on top). The whole stack is built for "see everything, work anywhere" — the cloud- collaboration angle is the marketing differentiator. Craft Wall takes the opposite stance: on-prem first, cloud only if and where the customer explicitly asks for it.
What Jupiter sells
Canvas is the visible software layer. It is a browser-based GUI, supports real-time annotation, chat between operators, KVM integration for source PC control, mobile device integration, SSL/TLS-encrypted operator sessions, and permission-based access control. Underneath, Canvas talks to Catalyst wall processors and PixelNet endpoints — Jupiter's own hardware family. The marketing tagline "Powerful cloud collaborative visualization software" captures the positioning honestly.
Pricing posture
Jupiter does not publish list pricing publicly. Public deployment write-ups and reseller quotes suggest a model that bundles Canvas software, Catalyst appliances, and PixelNet endpoints into a single project quote — typical enterprise control-room projects on Jupiter land in the $80,000-250,000 BOM range depending on display count, operator-seat count, and PixelNet endpoint spread. There is no "buy just the software" line item.
Where Craft Wall is different
- Software is a separable line item. €2,500 perpetual for Craft Wall, no hardware dependency, no PixelNet endpoint requirement. Customers can keep their existing AV-over-IP fabric (NDI, IPMX, RTSP) and just buy the composer.
- Hardware-agnostic deployment. Craft Wall on a commodity Linux server with any NVIDIA / Intel GPU. Jupiter Canvas assumes you bought Catalyst.
- On-prem-first architecture. Craft Wall installs entirely on the customer's own server with no cloud dependency. Canvas is built with cloud collaboration as a first- class assumption — for regulated facilities this means more architecture to disable / isolate.
- Source mix. NDI, IP-KVM, RTSP, HTML5 native in Craft Wall. Canvas supports a similar mix internally but is optimised for sources arriving through PixelNet — non-PixelNet sources usually go through a gateway.
Where Jupiter is the better fit
- Distributed operations where operators in multiple offices need to share the same wall in real time — Canvas's collaboration plus chat features are genuinely strong, and replicating that workflow elsewhere requires either bolted-on collaboration tooling or a separate unified-communications stack.
- Greenfield builds that want one vendor for both the AV-over-IP fabric and the wall software. PixelNet + Catalyst + Canvas as a single procurement reduces vendor coordination effort substantially.
- Customers with an existing Jupiter footprint who want the next refresh on the same family — switching vendors at refresh time costs operator retraining the customer may not want to absorb.
Migration considerations
The clean cut-over from Jupiter to Craft Wall usually keeps the PixelNet encoders (they speak standard H.264 / H.265 / RTSP behind the proprietary envelope), retires the Catalyst appliance, and lets Craft Wall ingest the PixelNet output stream directly. The Canvas collaboration features — the most genuinely differentiated piece of Jupiter's stack — are the part customers usually accept losing in exchange for the cost reduction. Replicating that operator chat layer through a Slack / Teams integration is usually adequate but it is the explicit trade.
The Catalyst dependency caveat
Customers evaluating Jupiter should verify the Catalyst hardware lifecycle status for any model number they already own. Jupiter's product line has been refreshed several times since 2020, and earlier Catalyst generations are end-of-support on their normal schedule. The procurement is usually Canvas-plus-current-Catalyst, not Canvas-on-existing-Catalyst.
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