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News Release from: Digi International | Subject: Digi One IA RealPort
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 17 January 2003
Award for multiprotocol controller
The Digi One IA RealPort has been selected by Control Engineering Magazine as a winner of a 2002 Editors' Choice Award.
The Digi One IA RealPort has been selected by Control Engineering Magazine as a winner of a 2002 Editors' Choice Award The RealPort is the latest extension of the Digi One IA product suite, designed to network-enable virtually any serial device in the industrial automation environment
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 4 Nov 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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It was one of 35 award winners selected from new products featured in 2002 issues of Control Engineering, Control Engineering Online and Control Engineering's topical e-mail newsletters.
Control Engineering Editors reviewed hundreds of new product releases each month and chose the best products to feature in the print publication and electronically.
At year's end, the Editors reviewed the published products and selected winners based on the following criteria: service to the industry, technological advancement and market impact.
The Digi One IA RealPort is the first product to simultaneously support multiple industrial network protocols to a single device.
Through simultaneous support of Modbus/TCP, EtherNet/IP, Allen Bradley Ethernet, TCP, UDP and Digi patented RealPort, it eliminates the need for all network agents to speak the same language, giving the user maximum flexibility in designing the control system.
"This award from Control Engineering helps recognise and reinforce our commitment to creating best-of-breed solutions for the industrial automation marketplace", said Joseph Dunsmore, Chief Executive Officer of Digi International.
"With this and our other innovative products launched in 2002, we have gained great traction in our goal to make device networking easy in the industrial marketplace".
The Digi One IA RealPort was designed to address the specific needs of the industrial automation market.
This includes industrial operating temperatures, patented RealPort technology, easy web-based configuration, multimaster capability and multiprotocol capability as well as easy management through SNMP.
It also incorporates a switchable EIA232/422/485 serial interface in addition to a 10/100Base-T network port.
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