Adder Technology 5000 manual Creating larger installations, Cascade installations

Creating larger installations

Alone, the AdderView CATxIP 5000 can support sixteen host computers and allow up to five users (four global and one local) to concurrently access any of those hosts. In many cases the number of hosts will exceed these numbers and that is when the flexibility of the Adder CATx range becomes apparent.

There are two main ways to increase the number of supported host computers:

•Cascade: Connect AdderView CATx 1000 units to the ports of the master AdderView CATxIP 5000, then connect the host computers to the ‘1000 units.

•Enterprise: Add further AdderView CATxIP 5000 units and spread the hosts between them.

Cascade installations

Cascade installations can support a maximum of 256 host computers, however, they impose the limitation that only a single host can be viewed by users at any time. For more details see Appendix 7 - Cascading multiple units.

Global	Global		Global	Global
User	User		User	User
Local
User
		IP network/
			Internet
	LOC REM VNC 100	LNK PWR
			www.adder.com
CAM	CAM	CAM	CAM
AdderView				AdderView
CATx 1000				CATx 1000

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Enterprise installations

Enterprise installations are effectively limitless, you can keep adding AdderView CATxIP 5000 units and new hosts whenever and wherever required. For all but the most basic enterprise configurations, the supplied ADDER.NET utility becomes vitally important: For users, it provides a virtualised and seamless way to access host systems that are spread across multiple devices. For administrators, it creates a centralised and secure method for managing all

of those hosts, devices and users. For further information, please see the user manual on the supplied ADDER.NET CD-ROM.

Global	Global	Global	Global	Global	Global	Global	Global
User	User	User	User	User	User	User	User

Local	Local	IP network/	ADDER.NET
User	User
		Internet

						The shaded
	LOC REM VNC 100 LNK	PWR		LOC REM VNC 100 LNK PWR		areas show
						the items
		www.adder.com			www.adder.com	managed by
						ADDER.NET
CAM	CAM	CAM	CAM	CAM	CAM
CAM	CAM	CAM	CAM	CAM	CAM
CAM	CAM	CAM	CAM	CAM	CAM

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The KVM switch is required only to allow a single local user to access all hosts. Global
users merely access the alternative IP addresses for the AdderView CATxIP 5000 units
- this is one of the jobs handled by ADDER.NET in order to simplify operation.