TCP-Com
RS232 to TCP/IP Converter
 NEW
Version 4.1 - Now with support for Virtual COM ports and UDP!
Can also be loaded as a Windows service!
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. |
