Wireless card extends serial reach
An
Amplicon product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Sep 10, 2002
Amplicon has recently configured and tested a roaming serial communications solution for the automation, production and test markets.
Amplicon has recently configured and tested a roaming serial communications solution for the automation, production and test markets.
The company has added wireless LAN products to its offering and can now provide end users with a standard wireless networking capability.
Using the well-received NPort Express DE-311, a single channel serial to Ethernet convertor, which may be integrated with any serial device, connected into a wireless LAN access point - in this case the LiveLAN-1300 - it is possible to transmit data via wireless to a PC at an entirely different location.
An integrated WLAN PCMCIA card, the LiveLAN-1100, communicates with the access point to enable the data to be read by the PC.
In this way, data may be collected from any serial device, converted to wireless and sent to a PC for analysing.
All without the need for installing twisted pair cabling.
This greatly increases user mobility and cuts installation costs.
This solution is ideal for legacy network communication protocols such as RS232, RS422 and RS485.
Software provided gives a live signal strength indicator, which can be displayed in the system tray, a very useful function when carrying out low cost site surveys.
The LiveLAN-1100 PCMCIA card is fully compliant with the 802.11b protocol, and has a data transfer rate of up to 11Mbit/s.
A USB version is also available.
Drivers for Windows 98/ME/2000 and XP are provided for the roaming serial communication solution.
Wireless LAN is also ideal for basic network infrastructure extensions, typically when extra PCs are needed in remote locations or when the ability to communicate with a network whilst on the move is required.
Amplicon provides in-depth pre and post sale support, with technical engineers on hand 5 days a week.
The roaming serial communications solution is available for GBP 329.
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