User guide

CHAPTER 2: PRODUCT OVERVIEW
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2. Product Overview
2.1 Introduction
The Black Box ServSwitch Extender provide users with a full computer desktop
experience from anywhere on the corporate TCP/IP network, while maintaining the
computers securely housed in a corporate data center. This desktop experience includes
access for the desktop user to keyboard, mouse, video, audio and USB mass storage
devices.
The Black Box ServSwitch DTX5000 can operate in two modes - Extender Mode and
Desktop Mode.
The Black Box ServSwitch DTX5002 operates only in Extender Mode.
In Extender Mode the platform auto-connects a transmitter to a receiver on a point-to-
point link. The Black Box ServSwitch DTX™ Control (Management Appliance) is not
required as part of the
system.
In Desktop Mode a user can connect from a receiver to any transmitter on the network -
either to a specific transmitter or one from a list of transmitters. The specific transmitter
or
list of transmitters being connected to is configured by the administrator on the
Management Appliance. The Management Appliance is a web server application that can
be accessed by the administrator through a standard web browser.
If the user has access to a list of transmitters, then a specific one from the list can be
selected from the On-Screen Display (OSD) of the receiver.
The administrator can change the mode of a receiver to Extender or Desktop via serial
port
CLI.
This manual refers to the list of products in Table 1.1.
Table 1.1: List of Products
Name Model
Management Appliance Black Box ServSwitch DTX™ Control
Transmitter DTX5000-T, DTX5002-T
Receiver DTX5000-R, DTX5002-R
DTX5000 Extender ServSwitch DTX5000
DTX5002 Extender ServSwitch DTX5002
ServSwitch Extender DTX5000 Digital Extender, DTX5002 Digital Extender