TAL TCP/Com

TCP/Com^®

Multi-function Serial <-> Ethernet Redirection Software

Multifunction serial to ethernet (and ethernet to serial) interface software. Easily access a serial device via a TCP/IP or UDP network or redirect Ethernet/IP data to real or “Virtual” RS232 serial ports. This allows you to use existing Windows-based serial RS232 communications software to send and receive data across any TCP/IP network.

TCP/Com software is extremely simple but powerful. 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

Use TCP/Com as a Serial Device Server

Share serial devices over a network (or even the internet)

Use TCP/Com as a Virtual Serial Port Splitter Cable

Windows does not allow multiple programs to access the same COM port. Bypass this restriction by using TCP/Com to split a single COM port into multiple virtual COM ports. This allows all your serial communications programs to access the same data.

Intuitive Multi-Document Interface

In the TCP/Com window just select the com port number and the serial communications parameters for your serial device and enter an IP address and a socket number. Then activate! It's that easy! Com port data will appear at the IP address and data from an IP port will appear at a real or virtual com port.

Features

TCP/Com has many features to allow it to easily redirect any serial connection to TCP/IP or the other way around.

• Acts as a "Serial Device Server" connecting serial devices directly to TCP/IP networks.
• Creates virtual com ports on any Windows PC that are actually TCP/IP port connections.
• Makes real com ports into TCP/IP port connections.
• Can send TCP/IP network data to virtual or real serial com ports.
• Virtual serial ports act exactly like real serial ports to your existing serial communication programs.
• Supports UDP/IP as well as TCP/IP.
• Attach as many serial devices to your PC as you have com ports and communicate with all simultaneously them over TCP/IP networks.
• Supports data input from up to 256 com ports simultaneously.
• Supports data input or output to up to 256 TCP/IP connections as either a client or server.
• Supports multiple client connections when configured as a TCP/IP server.
• Supports up to 115Kb serial communications
• Supports advanced error recovery features that automatically repair broken TCP/IP connections.
• Can be installed as a Windows service.