XPort AR User Guide
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2: Overview
The XPort AR embedded Ethernet Device Server is a complete network–enabling solution on a
1.75” x 1.75” PCB. This miniature device server empowers original equipment manufacturers
(OEMs) to go to market quickly and easily with Ethernet networking and web page serving
capabilities built into their products.
This chapter contains the following sections:
Key Product Features
Applications
Protocol Support
Evolution OS™
Software Features
Configuration Methods
Addresses and Port Numbers
Product Information Label
Key Product Features
The XPort AR is designed with additional features above and beyond the original XPort, including:
The Evolution OS operating system.
Two full serial ports with all hardware handshaking signals or three serial ports without
handshaking signals.
Eleven configurable pins .
Fully compliant PoE designs by using PoE compliant magnetics and passing through both the
used and unused pairs.
Increased memory: 4MB Flash and 1.25MB RAM.
Applications
The XPort AR device server connects serial devices, such as those listed below to Ethernet
networks using the IP protocol family:
CNC controllers
Data collection devices
Universal Power Supply (UPS) management unit
Telecommunications equipment
Handheld instruments
Security, alarm, and access control devices
Patient monitoring equipment
Medical instrumentation
Industrial Manufacturing/Automation systems
