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June 1, 2004 at 01:05 PM
Greg Shultz

KVM Quandary

by Greg Shultz . Updated 22 years, 1 month ago

I have an interesting problem that I need to find a solution to.

At one client site, I have two people who are now switching seats so that one person can perform a particually intensive task on the computer hosting the network-based application.

The computers are networked, but the application is DOS-based and there are serious latency issues when running this particular task over the network. Thus the seat switching…

Installing the application on each computer isn’t feasable, because the data on the host computer is also being accessed by several other users on the network.

Of course, the seat switching is very inefficient even though the cubicles are located right next to each other.

I’m thinking of using a set of KVM switches to allow them to virtually switch seats, but am unsure if it will even be feasable.

I know that I can use one KVM to allow one person to access the other’s computer, but am wondering if I can do use two KVMs or combination of a KVM and a Reverse KVM to allow both people to simultatneously use each other’s computer.

Anyone encounter this type of problem before? Any ideas?

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