Introduction - Kramer KDS-USB2 User Manual

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Introduction

Welcome to Kramer Electronics! Since 1981, Kramer Electronics has been providing a world
of unique, creative, and affordable solutions to the vast range of problems that confront the
video, audio, presentation, and broadcasting professional on a daily basis. In recent years, we
have redesigned and upgraded most of our line, making the best even better!
ExtremeUSB Network Configuration (XUSBNETCFG) has been developed to control USB-
SwitchableUSB™
KDS2 extenders that have or Simultaneous Users Interaction capabilities.
This document explains how to use our APIs.
XUSBNETCFG includes two features, SwitchableUSB™and Simultaneous Users Interaction
that are enabled on specific extender and core models.
SwitchableUSB™
is a protocol developed to dynamically switch KDS-USB2-EN (LEX) and
KDS-USB2-DEC (REX) extender pairings over a LAN. Imagine the extenders being manually
unplugged and re-plugged in swapped pairing configurations, but effortlessly via initiated
command over the LAN. Your OEM control solution (perhaps a separate console or GUI
software application for the host computer) would initiate the SwitchableUSB™ command
configurations.
Simultaneous Users Interaction (SUI) is a feature that enables up to seven different Remote
extenders in different locations to be connected to the same Local extender at the same time.
ExtremeUSB – Introduction
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