Adder Technology 5000 manual Appendix 7 Cascading multiple units, See also, Cascade tree

Appendix 7 – Cascading multiple units

When you need to control more than sixteen host computers using AdderView CATxIP 5000 units, there are two main ways to achieve this:

•The preferred method is to use multiple AdderView CATxIP 5000 units to control groups of sixteen hosts and then use the ADDER.NET utility to manage the interactions of multiple users with those hosts. This method is described in the section Creating larger installations.

•The alternative method is to cascade AdderView CATx 1000 units from the ports of

the original AdderView CATxIP 5000 unit. Up	Cascade
to sixteen hosts can then be linked to each of	level 1
the secondary AdderView CATx 1000 units.
The combination of AdderView units can be
arranged two levels deep forming a tree, or
cascade arrangement, with computer systems
situated at either level within that cascade
tree.
The limitation of the latter method is that the
local and global users linking into the AdderView
CATxIP 5000 unit can all only view one host	Cascade
system at a time due to the single pathways	level 2
formed by the connections between the
AdderView units.
This section details the configuration and
operation of a cascade system for completeness.
Note: It is not possible to cascade two AdderView
CATxIP 5000 units together because they do not
have a Remote User Port on their front panels.
The lower units must always be the non-IP
AdderView CATx 1000 variants.

See also

•Connecting units in cascade

•Addressing computers in a cascade

The cascade tree

The diagram shows how an AdderView CATxIP 5000 unit and multiple AdderView CATx 1000 units can be cascaded to two levels. Computer systems can be connected at any level. The local or global users can access computer systems situated anywhere within the cascade tree.

AdderView CATxIP 5000

CAM CAM CAM CAM

AdderView CATx 1000	AdderView CATx 1000
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