Black Box KV6104SA-R2, Manual

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SERVSWITCH™ DUO AND SERVSWITCH™ QUADRO
2. Introduction
The ServSwitch™ Duo and ServSwitch™ Quadro are high-performance keyboard-,
video-monitor-, and mouse-sharing (KVM-sharing) devices that support a wide
range of IBM
® PC compatible hardware and software platforms, including some
high-end IBM PS/2 ® compatible computers (IBM RS/6000 ® , Compaq ® Alpha ® , and
SGI™). The Duo makes it possible for two users to independently access a set of
attached computers:
• The 4-Port (KV6104SA-R2) and 8-Port (KV6108SA-R2) ServSwitch Duos are
housed in a slimline 1U-high chassis. You can attach four and eight computers
to them respectively.
• The 12-Port (KV6112FA-R2) and 16-Port (KV6116FA-R2) ServSwitch Duos are
housed in a full-size 2U-high chassis. You can attach twelve and sixteen
computers to them respectively.
The Quadro (KV6416FA-R2) makes it possible for as many as four users to access
as many as sixteen computers. It’s housed in a full-size 2U-high chassis.
NOTE
Aside from the fact that the Duo supports two users and the Quadro
supports up to four, the Duo and Quadro function almost identically. For
this reason, whenever we refer to anything in this manual that applies
equally to both model types (which is true for most of the text), we
usually use combined forms such as “Duo/Quadro."
You can control most of the functions of the ServSwitch Duo/Quadro through
an on-screen display (OSD) that appears on the users’ monitors. This display
includes a menu system for easy computer selection and control—users can select
computers by name or description instead of having to remember which port the
computer is attached to. There are also menus through which the system
administrator can allocate access rights to each user on a login basis.
One of the Duo’s user ports and two of the Quadro’s user ports are “dual-access”
ports: Not only do they have one set of connectors that you can plug a local
keyboard, mouse, and monitor into, but they also have an RJ-45 connector from
which you can run Category 5 twisted-pair cable as far as 200 m (655 ft.) to a
remote keyboard, mouse, and monitor attached to a ServSwitch Duo Extender
(KV6EXTB-R2 for the basic model or KV6EXT-R2 for the model that supports a
remote CPU). Do
not attach this port to a LAN; you could damage the Duo/
Quadro and possibly the network as well.