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CHAPTER 3: Installation
NOTE
You can include original (non-R2) ServSwitch Duos, ServSwitch
Wizards, ServSwitch Wizard LPs, and ServSwitch Wizard Pros in -R2
ServSwitch Duo or ServSwitch Quadro cascades, but all switches that
aren’t -R2 Duos or Quadros must be subsidiary units and must have
only CPUs attached to their CPU ports (that is, there must not be any
other switches between them and the CPUs).
Finally, once all of your subsidiary Duos/Quadros are in place, connect each
computer CPU to the system by running cabling from the CPU’s keyboard, mouse,
and video ports to the matching connectors in one of the free CPU ports on one of
the subsidiary Duos/Quadros. As with the master-to-subsidiary connections, this
cabling can be either separate keyboard-, mouse-, and video-extension cables or
Premium KVM CPU Cable. If you need to run farther than 100 ft. (30 m) to a
CPU, you’ll need to use one of our ServSwitch brand KVM extenders.
Figure 3-3 features a complete but very simple cascaded Duo system. For clarity,
each set of extension cables and peripheral cables is shown as a single line.
Figure 3-3. A simple cascaded system with two ServSwitch Duos.
CPUs
CPUs
Master ServSwitch Duo
Subsidiary
ServSwitch Duo
User stations
Extension
cabling
Extension cabling to CPU ports 7 and 8
(group 24) on the master
Extension
cabling