Systems and methods for down-sampled video routing

A media router for down-sampled video routing, comprising:

• a backplane including a plurality of backplane connections;
• at least one input card, comprising:
• one or more input terminals to receive at least one high bandwidth video signal;
• at least one compression module to compress the at least one high bandwidth video signal to generate at least one low bandwidth video signal;
• and
• one or more output terminals being electrically coupled to the backplane, and configured to transmit the at least one low bandwidth video signal to the backplane;
• at least one cross-point card, comprising:
• one or more input ports coupled to the backplane to receive the at least one low bandwidth video signal generated by the at least one input card;
• one or more output ports coupled to the backplane to transmit the at least one low bandwidth video signal;
• and
• a cross-point switch for routing the at least one low bandwidth video signal between the one or more input ports and a designated output port, of the one or more output ports;
• at least one output card, comprising:
• one or more input ports coupled to the backplane to receive the at least one low bandwidth video signal from a cross-point card;
• at least one decompression module for converting the received at least one low bandwidth video signal into at least one recovered high bandwidth uncompressed video signal;
• and
• one or more output ports for transmitting the at least one recovered high bandwidth uncompressed video signal.