The Silex DS-520 AN is designed to easily connect and share USB devices over a network. Printers, Scanners, Disk Drives, Card Readers, or virtually any other USB device can now be enabled with network capability. It allows flexibility to place the USB device anywhere on the network instead of needing to be attached directly to the computer, and multiple users can access the USB device.
What is a USB Device Server?
It is a network device that uses Silex USB Virtual Link technology to allow USB devices to be connected and shared on a network.
Virtually any USB device can be used on a network, just as though they were connected with a USB cable.
High-Performance data throughput due to optimised performance and Gigabit connection.
Extremely powerful CPU (800MHz) and two USB Hi-Speed ports (TypeA).
Printer AutoConnect feature works with the Windows or Macintosh printing system and allows multiple computers to easily share a USB printer over the network by making an automatic connection to the printer. Then it will automatically disconnect after the print job is sent making the printer available to the next user.
Isochronous Transfer Mode USB devices such as Webcams or USB sound cards, which require ongoing data transmission in real time, can also be used in the network environment.
Best Compatibility with a variety of USB devices over the network, including USB dongles, disk drives ash drives and other storage media, scanners, printers, digital cameras, USB sound adapters, USB displays, input devices, mixing consoles and many more.
Virtual environments: The USB Device Server is compatible with virtualisation programs and environments such as Citrix, VMware, Microsoft Terminal Server and Hyper-V.
