Black Box ACU5011A, ACU5010A manual Introduction

CHAPTER 2: Introduction

2. Introduction

The ServSwitch™ Wizard Extender is designed to transfer keyboard, video, and mouse signals up to 200 meters (655 ft.) over Category 5 or higher twisted-pair cable. At its most basic, the Extender consists of a local transmitter and a remote receiver interconnected with a twisted-pair cable. The receiver connects to your keyboard, monitor, and mouse, and the transmitter connects to the computer CPU that is to be controlled.

There are a number of individual products in the Wizard Extender line. Two are covered by this manual:

•The ServSwitch Wizard Extender Kit (ACU5010A) includes both a transmitter and a receiver.

•The ServSwitch Wizard Extender Receiver (ACU5011A) is a single receiver that can be used with the ServSwitch™ Duo and ServSwitch™ Quadro (which contain built-in transmitters) as a smaller alternative to the ServSwitch™ Duo Extender.

Some of these accessories have their own manuals or installation guides:

•The ServSwitch Wizard Extender Chassis (product code ACU5000A) is a rackmount chassis that can hold a number of transmitters or receivers.

•If you won’t be filling all of the slots in your Wizard Extender Chassis, you can install optional Single (ACU5003, one-slot) or Quad (ACU5004, four-slot) Blank Chassis Panels to cover the empty slots.

•To provide power to as many as four receivers with a single transformer, you can install an optional ServSwitch Wizard Extender Chassis Power Supply (PS5000).

•To correct for signal skew that can be introduced in long runs of CAT5 or higher cable, you can install an optional ServSwitch Wizard Skew Compensator (ACU5100A) between your transmitters and receivers.

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