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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
to sixteen hosts can then be linked to each of
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
system at a time due to the single pathways
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.
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.
See also
• Connecting units in cascade
• Addressing computers in a cascade
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