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Congratulations on your purchase of a LAVA Ether-Serial Link.
Ether-Serial Links connect serial devices to Ethernet networks. Any
serial device—POS equipment, factory machinery, monitoring
hardware, or security devices, for example—can send its
information to the Ether-Serial Link. The Ether-Serial Link places the
serial data in a TCP/IP wrapper and sends it out its Ethernet port.
Data moving the other direction, from the Ethernet side of the
Ether-Serial Link to the serial device, undergoes the same process in
reverse. LAVA Ether-Serial Links use industry-standard hardware
interfaces and are supported in Windows® NT4, Windows®2000,
Windows® XP, Windows® 2003, Linux, and QNX.
With a LAVA Ether-Serial Link, you can:
• Network serial devices
• Make devices available to multiple users
• Manage multiple serial devices from a single PC
• Eliminate long dedicated serial runs
• Stop using costly PCs as dedicated serial port servers
• Remotely access and control serial devices
• Eliminate long-distance phone-modem charges
Included with your package, you should have the following:
• LAVA Ether-Serial Link
• Power supply
• Quad DB-9 cable (4-DB9 Cabled version only)
• Installation diskette
• Quick Installation Guide
Getting Started