I’m not very familiar with serial communication over IP and have a basic question.
I have 10, Windows OS PC’s transferring serial data via RS232 to a paging system server using protocol, ESPA.
Currently these 10 connections are serial cables connected to a physical Windows OS server with a 10 port serial board installed.
I have been tasked with converting this one server to a VMware virtual server.
The vendor of the application wants me to use 10 DIGI One’s to connect the 10 PC’s to the new virtual server.
This would require 10 network cables and 10 power cables; I’m looking for another DIGI device that has multi ports in one device to make it a cleaner install.
I have been told the DIGI Port server TS 16 would work for this and I’m just trying to verify. My question is what is the difference between a DIGI One and a DIGI TS Port server?
The DIGI One is called a device server and the Port server TS is considered a terminal server, not sure what the difference is. The vendor is telling me I’m on my own if any issues if I use anything but the DIGI One.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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