Black Box SW628A-R2, SW627A-R2 manual Cable Requirements, Equipment Requirements, Servswitch Jr. Mp

SERVSWITCH™ JR. MP

2.5 Cable Requirements

Many switches of this type have what seems like ten million connectors on their rear panels: one for each CPU’s video cable, one for each keyboard cable, and a third for each mouse cable. The potential for tangling or mismatching cables is high.

By contrast, you can connect the ServSwitch Jr. MP to your CPUs with one CPU Cable for each CPU. This single cable reaches the CPU’s video-output, keyboard, and (on PC CPUs) mouse ports.

The exact variety or varieties of this cable that you’ll need will depend on the equipment you are connecting for your application. Refer to Appendix B for the available types of this cable and the corresponding product codes. Also refer to Chapter 1 or the first Caution notice in Section 3.3 for information about maximum cabling distances.

Finally, you can plug the shared monitor, keyboard, and mouse directly into the ServSwitch Jr. MP.

2.6 Equipment Requirements

You will have to be careful to choose a common monitor, keyboard, and mouse that adequately support all of your CPUs. For full details, see Section 4.1.

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