Daisy Chaining Plus Cascading Expansion
KM0216 / KM0432 units can be daisy chained to other KM0216 / KM0432 units to produce extremely large KVM matrixes. Under Protocol Interface Expansion, up to 8 daisy chained 16 or 32 port KM0216s / KM0432s can have 8 KH88s cascaded from each port, allowing up to 1,024 or 2,048 computers and 32 consoles in a full installation (8 x 16 x 8 or 8 x 32 x 8).
The two or four consoles belonging to the Master KM0216 / KM0432 switches can access and control all of the ports on all of the switches on the entire installation. The two or four consoles belonging to each of the Slave units can access and control all of their own ports and all of the ports on all of the switches that are cascaded down from them.
Under Physical Interface Expansion up to 8 daisy chained 16 or 32 port KM0216 or KM0432 switches can have
Protocol Interface Expansion
To set up a daisy chained/cascaded installation under Protocol Interface Expansion, refer to the diagram on p. 27, and do the following:
1.Follow the cabling up procedures given in the Cascading and Daisy Chaining sections.
2.Power up the daisy chained KM0216 / KM0432 Stations according to the sequence given in the Daisy Chaining section (p. 20).
3.After all the daisy chained KM0216 / KM0432 Stations are up, power on the cascaded Stations.
4.After all the cascaded Stations are up, power on the computers.
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