RE: Cheaper Servers?

Do mainframes directly attach, or is there an intervening client?

At 06:05 PM 4/16/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
> >Do you have a link for these KVM switches?  Are they network addressable?
>
>Some KVMs (the newer ones) are TCP addressable. Allowing the K, V & M to be
>far away (ie. Toronto to Austin) from the servers, but generally the switch
>is connected via a keyboard (K), video cable (V) and mouse cable (M) to the
>servers locally. Locally generally means w/in a thousand or so feet.
>
>The ones we use are from Belkin
>(http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatSectionView.process?Section_Id=56) but there
>are a number of manufacturers.
>
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