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PRO SWITCHING SYSTEM II
Control hundreds or thousands of devices from a single ASCII terminal or PC!
Key Features
Cards for A/B switching and patching or for switch- only capabilities.
Daisychain up to 9901 fully populated chassis to control and manage up to 158,416 A/B interface cards.
Management Control Software makes on- screen control a snap.
Multiple programmable alarms alert you to network conditions.
Dual-power
Dual-power1 | 12/18/2007 | #25900 |
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Managing switchable circuits is easy with the Pro Switching
System II (PSSII) from Black Box. This innovative system consists
of rackmount modular components that provide an economical and reliable means to manage
You can also switch manually. Use
Daisychain up to 9901 chassis together to control and manage 158,416 A/B interface cards from
a single console. This means of control is an alternative
to connecting multiple multiport KVM switches when you want to manage hundreds of CPUs.
One PSSII console can support 32,000 switchable circuits in 2000 racks (if you install 100 racks at each of 20 sites). In this setup, each site would contain one master rack which, in turn, would support up to 99 slave chassis. And you’re not limited by a type of cabling that can be used to connect the console to the master chassis; it can be local
all slave connections).
The PSSII chassis
At the heart of the system is the chassis. Choose the SM900A for
Each chassis has 18 mounting slots with card guides and a backplane PC board that provides
the
Cards seat in the chassis from the front, and their data connectors plug easily into the cable connectors without disturbing any cable bundles attached at the chassis’ rear. The first slot holds the unit’s Power Supply Modules (order separately), and the slot adjacent to it is for installing an optional Management Control Card or Terminal Display Card.
The chassis’ other 16 slots can accommodate up to 16 circuit cards, which we offer as Front Interface Cards or Universal Serial Cards. Each module passes one switchable data circuit.
The PSSII chassis also has a
