Aten KE8950 [12/17] Switch specifications

Further Considerations

Number of ports: Choose a switch that has enough ports to match the number of KVM over IP Extenders you will

be installing. Switches typically come in 5, 8, 10, 16, 24, 28, 48, and 52-port configurations. If you are installing 13

KVM over IP transmitters and 13 KVM over IP receivers, you will need to purchase a switch with at least 28 ports.

Stackable verse Standalone

Stackable switches allow you to easily manage and configure ports spanning across multiple switches that the

port switches individually, you can manage the six as if they are a single unit using Stackable Switches. The six

switches (168 ports) function as a single switch and are managed from one web or GUI interface.

What Stackable Switches Can Do:

 Create a link aggregation group with one port in one unit of the stack and another port of that group in

another switch in the stack.

 Select a port on one switch in the stack and mirror the traffic to a switch port on another unit of the stack;

thus copy the configuration to direct traffic more effectively between KVM over IP Extenders.

 Apply custom ACL security settings to any port on any switch in the stack.

 Stackable switches can be setup in a ring configuration, so that if a port or cable fails, the stack

automatically routes around the failure, at microsecond speeds. Stackable Switches also allow you to add

 IGMP Snooping Fast Leave

 IGMP Snooping v2 or v3

 Flow Control Functions

 Throughput of: Full Duplex, 1Gbps up- and down- stream speeds per port

 Performance of their most onerous tasks (e.g. IGMP snooping) with multiple dedicated processors (ASICS)

 It is highly recommended to deploy the same make of switch from the same manufacturer throughout each

subnet in the installation to prevent incompatibility issues

 The maximum number of simultaneous ‘snoopable groups’ the switch can handle meets or exceeds the

number of KVM over IP transmitters that will be used to create Channel groups