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TCP-Com is a software based RS232 to TCP/IP converter. TCP-Com allows any of the RS232 serial ports on your PC to interface directly to a TCP/IP network. For example, you can use TCP-Com to turn a PC into a Serial Device Server so that you can 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.
TCP-Com can also create Virtual RS232 serial ports that are actually connections to a TCP/IP port. This allows you to use existing Windows based serial communications software to send and receive data across a TCP/IP network.
Attach data collection devices - modems, bar code scanners, sensors, gages, meters, RF equipment, telephone PBX systems, laboratory instruments, etc. - to the serial ports of your Windows PC and have that data available anywhere over any TCP/IP based network (ethernet, Internet).
For example, you could connect a serial device (bar code reader, electronic balance or electronic measuring instrument) to a COM port on your PC, run TCP-Com and then connect to the device from any other PC on your network through a TCP/IP socket connection. This would allow you to use TCP-Wedge, Telnet or any other TCP/IP communications software to read or write to the serial device directly from any PC located on the same network. TCP-Com can also be used to pass serial data across a corporate intranet or over the Internet. See below for a list of typical applications for TCP-Com. |
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