CHAPTER 1: I NTRODUCTION 1Chapter 1: IntroductionIP-Reach OverviewCongratulations on your purchase of IP-Reach, the industry-leading solution for multi-platform, high-performance, network-based, remote KVM console access. IP-Reach enables highly-secure, multi-user,bandwidth-efficient, and software-independent access to your servers’ KVM consoles via a web browser.IP-Reach connects to the keyboard, video, and mouse ports of up to four servers or KVM switches. UsingRaritan's powerful frame-grabber and Video Compression Algorithm, it captures, digitizes, and compressesthe video signal before transmitting to a remote PC. The remote user has direct access and total control oftarget servers for maintenance, administration, and trouble-shooting, from running GUI applications toBIOS-level troubleshooting, and even rebooting.Use IP-Reach for convenient access to servers anytime, from anywhere:• Control servers from within the building or across a campus• Manage servers at branch offices from a central site• Provide remote support for worldwide data centers• Troubleshoot, reconfigure, and reboot servers from home• Provide convenient and secure lights-out server managementAccess via Internet, LAN/WAN, or dial-up ModemIP-Reach provides a broad array of remote access methods to control any server connected to a RaritanKVM Switch. Since servers can also be accessed out-of-band with IP-Reach, remote access to mission-critical target servers is always available - even if the network is down.
