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CHAPTER 5: Installation
5. Installation
5.1 Guidelines and Limitations for Attaching Equipment
This section discusses a few things you need to keep in mind about the types of
devices you can attach to a ServSwitch™ Brand Fiber KVM Extender. As you read
the rest of this section, you might want to refer to Figure 5-1, which shows how the
Extenders handle the various signals they carry. For pinouts of the Extender’s
connectors, see Appendix A.
Figure 5-1. Schematics of signal processing in ACS235A (top) and
ACS236A (bottom) Extender systems.
R
G
B
HS/VS
VS
8…28V/DC 8…28V/DC
RS-232
(V.24)
Keyboard/
Mouse
13W3
RS-232/
(V.24)
Keyboard/
Mouse
13W3
VGA VGA
R
G
B
R
G
B
HS
VS
VSYNC
HSYNC
SYNCPOL
R
G
B
X
Y
X
Y
R
G
B
HSYNC-
Stripper
VSYNC-
Stripper
SYNC polarity
R
G
B
HS/VS
VS
DC
DC DC
DC
8…28V/DC 8…28V/DC
serial /
parallel
parallel /
serial
parallel /
serial
serial /
parallel
printer
mouse
keyboard
printer
mouse
keyboard
VGA/RGB
VGA/RGB
PC
ACS235A
ACS236A
NOTE: You can make either a VGA or a Sun video
connection to the ACS236A, not both at once.