* Aten’s KVM switches get Sun seal of approval
Keyboard-video-mouse switch vendor Aten Technology announced last week that its Altusen KVM products support the Solaris 10 operating system and have received Solaris Ready Certification for use on Sparc, x86 and AMD x64 architectures.
The company says the Solaris Ready logo provides customers with the assurance that Aten’s products have been tested in Solaris environments and interoperate well.
Three KVM products have been tested: the Matrix KVM, the CS1758 and the CS1754.
The Matrix is a Category-5 unshielded twisted pair-based KVM switch that lets as many as four users access and control as many as 32 computers simultaneously. It provides, through daisy-chaining and cascading, for 32 users to link to as many as 2,096 computers. Further, it can be expanded to manage 4,096 computers through a dual or split on-screen display. The Matrix KVM switch has 16 to 32 ports and works with PC or Mac servers.
The eight-port CS1758 and four-port CS1754 KVM switches are designed for small and mid-sized businesses. They can be used to manage desktop computers or rooms of servers. The CS1758 and CS1754 support audio and Sun’s USB keyboards and mice, as well as PS/2-based connections. Special keys such as “Stop,” “Copy” and “Paste,” as well as HotKeys on the Sun keyboards, are also supported.
The Matrix is available now for $4,000, the CS1754 is $350, and the CS1758 is $500.
Aten is located in Irvine, Calif. It was founded more than two decades ago, and also provides USB and FireWire adapters and hubs, video accessories and data converters.
