Make up to 16 RS-232/422/485 Serial Devices Internet Ready

NPort 5600 Series provides a convenient and transparent way to establish an Ethernet connection that not only protects your current hardware investment, but also ensures future network expandability. Perform some simple configuration tasks, and you''ll be ready to network your existing serial devices. Moreover, NPort 5600 can transparently transmit data bi-directionally between the serial and Ethernet interfaces. By using NPort 5600, you can centralize serial device management and distribute management hosts at the same time.

19-inch Rackmount Device Server

NPort 5600 has a professional cabinet design, with Tx/Rx LEDs for all ports on the front panel, and the 8/16 RJ45 connectors on the rear panel.This makes NPort 5600 suitable for standard 19-inch rack mounting, simplifying operation, maintenance, and administration.

Real COM/TTY Ports

After installing the real COM/tty driver that comes with NPort 5600, the serial ports on NPort 5600 are recognized as Real COM ports by the Windows operating system, or real tty ports by Linux environments. NPort provides both the basic transmit/receive data functions, as well as RTS, CTS, DTR, DSR, and DCD control signals.

Useful LED Indicators

The System LED, Serial Tx/Rx LEDs, and Ethernet LED on the connector help field engineers analyze field problems, and provide a simple way to ease monitoring tasks. NPort 5600's LEDs not only indicate current system and network status, but also assist the field engineer in monitoring the status of attached serial devices.

LCD Display Panel and LED Indicators for Each Port

Dimensions and Appearance 

Typical Application

1 NPort 5600 can be shared by several different host computers
Different Host computers can share the same NPort 5600 to control different devices. For example, ports 1, 2, and 3 can be configured to COM3, COM4, and COM5 of Host A, and ports 14, 15, and 16 can be configured to COM3, COM4, and COM5 of Host B. By using NPort 5600, you can simultaneously centralize serial device management and distribute the management hosts over the network.

Dimensions

Unit: mm (inch) 

Pin Assignments for 8-pin RJ45 Serial Ports

NPort 5610 NPort 5630 Pin RS-232 RS-422/ 4-wire RS-485 2-wire RS-485 1 DSR (in) - - 2 RTS (out) - - 3 GND TxD+ - 4 TxD (out) TxD- - 5 RxD (in) RxD- Data- 6 DCD (in) RxD+ Data+ 7 CTS (in) GND GND 8 DTR (out) - -