RS232 to TCP/IP software makes virtual COM ports

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Jan 20, 2004

Taltech's TCP-Com software was originally designed to expose a RS232 serial port on a PC to a TCP/IP port so that RS232 serial data can be sent and received across a TCP/IP network.

Taltech's TCP-Com software was originally designed to expose a RS232 serial port on a PC to a TCP/IP port so that RS232 serial data can be sent and received across a TCP/IP network.

TCP-Com Version 2.0 has been upgraded with powerful new features including the ability to create "virtual COM ports" that are actually TCP/IP port connections.

This means that any software designed to communicate with RS232 ports can now communicate over Ethernet or Internet TCP/IP ports.

TCP-Com also now has advanced error recovery features that can automatically detect and repair broken TCP/IP connections.

The ability to create virtual COM ports allows TCP-Com to be used for a number of advanced applications that were not possible before.

Now TCP-Com can be used to: turn a PC into a multiport serial device server (or terminal server); send or receive data over a TCP/IP port with any existing serial communications program; open COM ports located on another computer in a network as if they were locally installed COM ports; use a network or the Internet as a giant serial cable; feed data from one physical RS232 port to multiple RS232 serial communications programs; or map a TCP/IP port to a different TCP/IP port.

A full working 30-day evaluation version of TCP-Com v2.0 can also be downloaded from the Taltech website.