TCP-Com

  • SKU: TCPCOM

Easily access a serial device via a TCP/IP or UDP network or redirect Ethernet/IP data to real or ?Virtual? RS232 serial ports.

TCP-Com is a software-based RS232 to TCP/IP converter that enables RS232 serial ports on a PC to interface directly to a TCP/IP network. Use TCP-Com to turn a PC into a Serial Device Server to connect any RS232 serial device directly to a TCP/IP network and communicate with that device from any other workstation in the same network or across the Internet.

It can be used to solve a wide variety of device interfacing and RS232 or TCP/IP conversion problems, such as the following:

  • Turn a PC into a Serial Device Server (Terminal Server)
  • Send or receive data over a TCP/IP port with any serial communications program
  • Open COM ports located on another computer in your network as if they were local
  • Use Ethernet network (or the Internet) as a giant serial RS232 cable (Serial Tunneling)
  • Feed data from one physical RS232 port to multiple RS232 serial communications applications
  • Map a TCP/IP port to a different TCP/IP port

TCP-Com – Features

TCP-Com is a software-based RS232 to TCP/IP converter that enables RS232 serial ports on a PC to interface directly to a TCP/IP network. Use TCP-Com to turn a PC into a Serial Device Server to connect any RS232 serial device directly to a TCP/IP network and communicate with that device from any other workstation in the same network or across the Internet.

Create Virtual RS232 serial ports that are actually connections to a TCP/IP port to use existing Microsoft Windows-based serial communications software to send and receive data across a TCP/IP network. Attach data collection devices such as modems, bar code scanners, sensors, gages, meters, RF equipment, telephone PBX systems and laboratory instruments to the serial ports of a Microsoft Windows PC to make the data available over any TCP/IP based network. Connect a serial device such as a bar code reader, electronic balance or electronic measuring instrument to a COM port on a PC, run TCP-Com and connect to the device from any other PC on the network through a TCP/IP socket connection. TCP/IP communications software could then be used to read or write to the serial device directly from any PC located on the same network.

Features include:

  • Support for up to 115Kb serial communications
  • Support for up to ninety nine com ports simultaneously
  • Support for up to ninety nine TCP/IP connections as a client or server
  • Support for multiple client connections when configured as a TCP/IP server
  • Create virtual COM ports that are actually TCP/IP port connections (Microsoft Windows NT, 2000 and XP only)
  • Support for advanced error recovery features that repair broken TCP/IP connections automatically (Microsoft Windows NT, 2000 and XP only).

TCP-Com – System Requirements

  • Microsoft DOS 2.0 and higher or any version of Windows.

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