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RIO PCI Serial Cards

The RIO PCI 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.

Hot Swap Modularity

The RIO PCI serial card consists of PCI adapter cards and external 8 or 16 port Remote Terminal Adapters (RTA’s) available with a range of connectors for RS232 and RS422. These Remote Terminal Adapters can be added or removed to a live system and self configure to ensure ease of set-up and management of up to 512 serial ports.

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.

Features and Benefits

• Provides up to 128 serial ports per card
• Expandable to 512 serial ports per systems
• Universal 3.3/5v PCI solutions
• PCI-X compatible
• 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

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 PCI 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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