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7. Installation
7.3.5 Grouping Ports into Vertical Channels
Once the cables have been connected and multi-display mode has been selected in the OSD, the KVM will auto-detect
the channels and display modes. Users can then assign them a channel number as the port name so all the Port 1s
become Channel 1, all the Port 2s become Channel 2, ... , and all the Port 7s become Channel 7. The ports will all be
switched at the same time, channel by channel.
Depending on the number of stages in your stack, the KVM installation offers dual display (two stages), triple display
(three stages), quad display (four stages) or multi-display (up to 8 stages) scenarios. For reference purposes, the
example below shows a four-stage installation with quad display functionality.
Ch1
Ch7 Ch6
First
Switch
Second
Switch
Third
Switch
Fourth
Switch
