3Com CS/2500 Overview, Features, Ten standard RS-232-D electrical interfaces, Serial interfaces

1 OVERVIEW

CS/2500 series communications servers connect serial devices over a local area network (LAN). These products support most asynchronous terminals, hosts, printers, personal computers, modems, word processors, and other devices. All CS/2500 series models can be used as terminal servers or as combination host and terminal servers.

The CS/2500 series consists of Model CS/2500 and Model CS/2600, shown in Figure 1-1.

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CS/2500

CS/2500

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CS/2600

CS/2600

2 MB memory RS-232 support

RS-422 support (transmit, receive data only) Parallel printer port

	Figure 1-1 CS/2500 and CS/2600 Communications Servers
Features	CS/2500 and CS/2600 communications servers offer the following
	features:
	■ Ten standard RS-232-D electrical interfaces
	■ Support for RS-422 (Transmit and Receive Data only) over RS-232
	serial interfaces