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3.1.3
SDS services for Cassidian infrasturctures
The Cassidian infrastructures are handling the SDS transfer by the TCS server, which is
an optional part of the infrastructure. A TCS server is needed for the use of the TGW-
100 for SDS based transmission.
As the TCS server does not offer a direct open IP based protocol for the data
transmission, the COM / RCOM connection which is provided by the TCS API must be
used by any application which wants to send and receive SDS and Status messages. Due
to this limitation, a gateway software for Windows based computers is needed to
provide the connection between the TGW-100 and the TCS server.
This software is a single executable called "TCS_Gateway" which does not need an
installation on the PC. Also this application can be started in multiple instances on a
single PC, so that the PC can handle the connection of several TGW-100 to the
Cassidian TCS server.
3.1.3.1
TCS-Gateway installation
To install the TCS-Gateway, copy the file "TCS_Gateway.exe" on a PC running
Windows operating system (Windows XP or higher needed, also a Windows Server OS
starting from Windows Server 2003 can be used). You can use any directory (i.e.
C:\Program Files\Piciorgros\TCS Gateway). Please take care that the application must
have the rights to write into this directory!
You can run multiple instances of the program on the same machine, each interfacing
one TGW-100. The application will open a TCP port to wait for a connection of the
TGW-100. This port must be specified, also one port can only be used by one
application on a PC. If you want to run 5 instances of the TCS_Gateway.exe, each one
must listen on a different port.
