Lightwave Communications Brings Consolidation And Control to Wall Street; Trading Floor Switch Clears the Trading Desk and Increases Your Options.Business Editors, Technology Writers MILFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2000 Single User, Four Computer, Keyboard/ Mouse Switch Lightwave Communications Inc. the industry leader in console management solutions introduces the Trading Floor Switch; the first keyboard/mouse switch developed especially for the trading desk Trading Desk A desk where transactions for buying and selling securities occur. Trading desks can be found in most organizations (banks, finance companies, etc.) involved in trading investment instruments such as equities, fixed-income securities, futures, commodities and foreign . The Trading Floor Switch allows a single Sun-compatible keyboard and mouse to control two Sun and two PS/2-compatible computers. Valuable desk space is conserved by using a single keyboard and mouse to control the CPUs. Video signals are not switched by the Trading Floor Switch so that visual market data is not compromised. Keyboard and mouse emulation is supplied at all times to all attached computers regardless of switch position. There is no interruption of operation caused by a CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. detecting the absence of a keyboard. The Trading Floor Switch stores keyboard status (Caps Lock The caps lock is a key on a computer keyboard. Pressing it will set a keyboard mode in which typed letters are capitalized by default and in lower case when the shift key is pressed; the keyboard remains in this mode until caps lock is pressed again. , Num Lock (NUMeric Lock) A keyboard key used to toggle a combination number/cursor keypad between number keys and cursor keys. , etc.) for each CPU and restores the current status each time the computer is selected. The Trading Floor Switch is compact, only 4"x4"x1", and consists of a circuitry module that can easily be mounted off the desktop and a wired remote control that attaches to the keyboard for easy use. Users can select the computer to be controlled by the touch of a button, the selected CPU indicated by an LED above the respective button. The Trading Floor Switch requires no external power. About Lightwave Communications Lightwave Communications, Inc. is the industry leader in console management solutions offering a complete line of KVM (K Virtual Machine) A version of the Java Virtual Machine for small devices with limited memory. See J2ME. See also KVM switch. KVM - Keyboard Video Mouse (keyboard, video, mouse) and serial (TTY (TeleTYpewriter) See teletypewriter and TDD/TTY. (hardware) tty - /tit'ee/ (ITS pronunciation, but some Unix people say it this way as well; this pronunciation is not considered to have sexual undertones), /T T Y/ 1. teletypewriter. 2. ) switches and extension systems. Strategic relationships and compliance affiliations exist between Lightwave and Silicon Graphics as a Gold Seal Supplier, Hewlett Packard as a Channel Partner for Workstations and Clinical Systems, and Sun Microsystems as an IHV (Independent Hardware Vendor) An organization that makes electronic equipment. It implies a company that specializes in a niche area, such as display adapters or disk controllers, rather than a computer systems manufacturer. Contrast with ISV. Developer. Lightwave's products serve more than 5000 customers worldwide. Lightwave Communications is privately held and headquartered in Milford, Connecticut. |
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