Chapter 2: Overview
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2. Overview
Thank you for choosing the ServSwitch™ Wizard DP USB (KV9804A) which offers high quality video switching (DisplayPort 1.1
compliant) together with individual sharing of peripherals between up to four computers.
The KVM, speakers and two separate USB devices attached to the Wizard DP USB unit can either be switched in unison, as nor-
mal, or you can mix your peripherals between any of the systems to suit your current tasks. For instance, you could be creating
emails on one system, listening to a soundtrack from another while a third is sending documents to your printer and a fourth is
performing another task with a different USB peripheral. The Wizard DP USB front panels make it straightforward to control
which peripherals should connect to each system.
Figure 2-1. Wizard DP USB (KV9804A) switch sharing four peripherals across four systems.
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DisplayPort video
Full support is provided for
DisplayPort video connections
up to 2560 x 1600 at 60Hz,
30bpp, 4 lanes @ 2.7GBits/s,
10.8GBits/s.
USB keyboard and mouse
Dedicated keyboard and mouse
ports with support for full
speed USB emulation.
Multiple switching
The attached peripheral
devices can be switched
collectively to any com-
puter system, or can be
linked to separate systems
to achieve multiple tasks
in parallel. Multiple
switching can be con-
trolled from the front
panel buttons, hot keys or
mouse buttons.
True Emulation
Earlier USB KVM switches relied upon
standard keyboard and mouse templates
to inform each computer system how to
deal with the connected peripherals.
The Wizard DP USB succeeds in harvest-
ing the true identities of the connected
keyboard and mouse and presents those
‘real’ profiles concurrently to every sys-
tem. Thus, specialist keyboards and mice
can be fully supported.
USB Remote wakeup
The USB Remote Wakeup
feature is fully supported.
Any connected computer
can go into sleep mode
and be awakened (when
its channel is selected) as
soon as you press a key or
move the mouse. The
computer and peripherals
must support the USB
Remote Wakeup feature.
