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RIO ISA Serial Cards

The RIO ISA serial card is a modular serial solution for applications that require long distance, fault tolerant cabling. With RIO the normal serial cable length constrictions are lifted by Perle’s flexible solution.

Features and Benefits

• Provides up to 128 serial ports per card
• Expandable to 512 serial ports per systems
• EIA-232 (RS-232) or EIA-422 (RS-422) interfaces
• Windows, Linux, Unix and Solaris Operating System Support
• Hot swappable adapters
• Can be spread across large premises
• Fault tolerant cabling
• Support for dual host systems
• RISC based
• Lifetime Warranty

Hot Swap Modularity

RIO serial card consists of a host card that provides ISA serial ports by connecting 8 or 16 port Remote Terminal Adapters (RTA’s). These serial adapters can be added or removed to a live system and self configure to ensure ease of set-up and management.

Where Distance Counts

The RTA’s are connected using high-speed links capable of distances up to 75m. In addition the serial ports can be distributed even further by daisy chaining the RTA’s.

Fault Tolerant Connectivity

When a solution demands minimum downtime, the RIO can be cabled in such a way that in the event of a link failure the remaining RTA’s will find the next shortest communication path back to the host card. With some operating systems it is also possible to connect RIO to dual hosts so that in the event of a server failure control of the RTA’s switches over to the backup server.

Applications

• Data Acquisition
• Retail EPOS
• Terminal/Printer support
• Highway Toll booths operations
• Airport baggage carousel management
• Remote Access Solutions
• Console Management

Class Leading Support and Warranty

Perle’s RIO ISA Serial Card is backed by the best service and support in the industry, including Perle’s unique lifetime warranty. Since 1976 Perle has been providing its customers with networking products that have the highest levels of performance, flexibility and quality.

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