How to order customised manual switches. • How to order customised manual switches • Step 1: • Pick the switches for your application. • Be sure to select switches with connectors that match your cables and equipment, the correct pinning, and ...

UARTs and PCI buses. • UARTS and PCI buses • UARTs (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitters) • UARTS are designed to convert sync data from a PC bus to an async format that external I/O devices such as printers or modems use. UARTs insert...

Selecting a video converter. • Selecting a video converter • Resolution and refresh rate • Many modern flat screen monitors will only display a small range of refresh rates and resolutions, and most will not display any refresh rates below 60H...

Power problems. • Power-problems • Sags • The Threat — A sag is a decline in the voltage level. Also known as “brownouts,“ sags are the most common power problem • The Cause — Sags can be caused locally by the start-up demands of electrical de...

Advantages of video on fibre optic cable. • Advantages of fibre optic cable over copper coax cable to transmit video • Superior performance • Fibre cable supports a very high data rate and yields a very low signal loss. So you get sharp, clear...

Serial in the Industry • Serial in the industry • Serial protocols like RS232, RS422 and RS485 are still used in the industry. A lot of equipment purchased a long time ago is using these interfaces. Purchasing new equipment is not desirable or...

Cable construction and delay skew. • Cat5 extender and CAT5e or CAT6 cables (delay skew) • If you connect CAT5e or CAT6 cable to a CAT5 extender, the result is blurry images on your monitor. The effect is known as delay skew, but do you know w...

ServSwitch over IP solutions. • ServSwitch Wizard IP • Remote acces • For remotely accessing and controlling servers, many administrators use remote access software. But is it enough? After all, it's operating system dependent and doesn't work...

Stream mode vs. burst mode/prompt mode. • Stream mode vs. burst mode/prompt mode. • Stream mode • Computers and mice must communicate with each other in order to operate properly. Most computers and mice communicate via a method called “stream...

What Are KVM extenders? • What Are KVM extenders? • KVM extenders are devices specifically designed to increase the distance that a keyboard, monitor and mouse (KVM station) can be placed from a computer or KVM switch. Some KVM extenders can a...