From Avocent Corporation

Networked keyboard, video and mouse (also known as KVM via IP) is the third major step forward in server operations management. The first step was mounting servers in racks, while analog KVM provided the second step. You can imagine what server farms would look like without these advances.

KVM via IP lets you control servers from a greater distance than analog KVM did. While analog KVM devices and servers typically must be within several feet of each other, KVM via IP extends server control across the breadth of your IP network or even the Internet.

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Products & Services
KVM Switches
KVM switches are hardware devices that allow IT personnel to use a single keyboard, video monitor, and mouse (KVM) to control more than one computer at a time.
Network Security Software
Network security software includes everything from remote access protection to firewall and security appliance solutions to email security to web filtering, monitoring, bandwidth protection, and all elements of computer network security/computer security.
Network Servers
Network servers control and manage network resources such as files, printers, users, groups, etc.
Time Servers
Time servers are dedicated network computers that provide time-synchronization functions for all of the devices in the network.
Computer Terminals
Thin clients are network computers that are especially small so that most data processing occurs on the server. Thin clients are powered by centralized servers and do not contain CD-ROM drives, disc drives, and expansion slots.

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