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SERVSWITCH WIZARD DVI
Black Box Corporation
• 1000 Park Drive • Lawrence, PA 15055-1018 • Tech Support: 724-746-5500 •
www.blackbox.com
•
e-mail: [email protected]
© 2005. All rights reserved.
Black Box Corporation.
5/31/2005
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Control multiple CPUs
that output DVI video
with a keyboard,
mouse, and one or
more monitors.
Single-, dual-, and
quad-head models for
either two or four CPUs.
Supports 1600 x 1200
at up to 60 Hz.
Dual-head and quad-
head models support
compositing video
for even higher total
resolutions.
Can be cascaded to
control more CPUs.
Can be synchronized
with compatible
switches to control
more heads or both
DVI and analog CPUs.
D
o you have two or more
computers that output Digital
Visual Interface (DVI) video?
Would you like to monitor and
control them with one keyboard
and mouse and one monitor or set
of monitors?
The ServSwitch Wizard™ DVI
could be the KVM switch you
need. Based on our proven
ServSwitch Wizard technology,
the ServSwitch Wizard DVI
comes in six models that differ by
the number of CPUs they support
(2-port or 4-port) and the number
of DVI video heads each attached
CPU can have (single-head, dual-
head, or quad-head).
The ServSwitch Wizard DVI
supports resolutions up to 1600 x
1200 pixels at refresh rates up to
60 Hz. (In fact, its maximum pixel
frequency of 165 MHz per port is
the highest single-link bandwidth
supported by the DVI spec.)
If you’re using multi-head
CPUs that output different
segments of the same image
on each head to make a single
screen, the ServSwitch Wizard
DVI can pass these through to the
monitor as normal: The
ServSwitch Wizard DVI supports
composited resolutions as high as
A KVM switch for CPUs that output one, two, four,
or more feeds of crystal-clear DVI digital video.
Key Features
2400 x 1600 (dual-head models) or
3200 x 2400 (quad-head models).
If you have more than four
CPUs to switch between, you can
cascade ServSwitch Wizard DVIs
to handle as many as 256 of them.
If your CPUs output more than
four video feeds (that is, they have
more than four heads), you can
“synchronize” a pair of Quad-
Head ServSwitch Wizard DVIs by
running a special serial cable
between them. They will switch
channels simultaneously—for
example, when you switch to
CPU 3 on one, the other will do the
same. So, by running the “extra”
video feeds through the same
CPU channel on the second
ServSwitch Wizard DVI, they can
be handled transparently, as if the
two ServSwitch Wizard DVIs
were one larger switch.
Synchronizing is also useful
when you need to switch both
CPUs that output DVI and CPUs
that output VGA-compatible
analog video. In this case, you
can synchronize a ServSwitch
Wizard DVI with a regular
ServSwitch Wizard or one of the
other switches in the ServSwitch
Wizard family. The ServSwitch
Wizard DVI will handle the video
from the DVI computers and the
keyboard and mouse signals from
all of the computers, and the other
switch will handle the video from
the VGA-type computers.
Because many DVI monitors
autosense and auto-adapt to
either DVI or analog input, you
might be able to use a single
monitor for the whole system.
The ServSwitch Wizard DVI
can be used with IBM
®
PC
compatible computers running
any popular operating system, as
well as IBM RS/6000
®
, Compaq
®
Alpha
®
, and SGI™ computers that
output DVI.
To connect your CPUs to the
switch, we offer special bonded
cables that carry keyboard and
mouse lines and one, two, or four
DVI lines (EHN450, EHN460, and
EHN470). Keep in mind that the
maximum DVI distance on either
side of the Wizard DVI is 5 m
(16.4ft.) as per the DVI spec.
All of the multi-head
ServSwitch Wizard DVI models
come with a power supply. The
single-head models can usually
get enough power from the CPUs’
keyboard leads to operate; if not,
the PS649-R2 power supply is
available separately.
