Omnitron Systems Technology AS5250, AS400/3X manual Features, Description

Omnitron Systems

Technology, Inc.

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OmniRepeater™ 400

AS400/3X 5250 and 5250 Express Twinax Fiber Converter

FEATURES

nTwinax 5250 and 5250 Express compatible repeater and fiber converter that functions as a twinax to twinax repeater to extend twinax distance or as a fiber converter to extend distance using fiber media.

nSeamlessly connects to IBM’s AS/400 and 3X local and remote twinax controllers and workstations.

nSupports distances of 5,000 feet on twinax, 15,000 feet on multimode fiber and 30,000 feet on single- mode fiber.

nCascadable to four units for extra long distances.

nRetiming repeater technology regenerates and reclocks data, eliminating clock jitter and noise.

nDigital Phase Locked Architecture provides acquisition of data rates of 1 Mbps for 5250 or 2 Mbps for 5250 Express (-2%, +4%), resulting in high immunity to noise and crosstalk.

nClear display and software independence make installation and monitoring intuitive and easy.

nSupports single-mode and multimode fiber.

DESCRIPTION

The OmniRepeater™ 400 is an IBM 5250 and 5250 Express compatible repeater and fiber converter. It retimes and regenerates the data signal to facilitate extended twinax distances and provides twinax to fiber conversion which enables 5250 fiber data connectivity. It supports distances of up to 5,000 feet on twinax, 15,000 feet on multimode fiber and 30,000 feet on single-mode fiber. The OmniRpeater can be cascaded up to four units to reach extra long distances.

The host connects to the OmniRepeater via twinax. When used as a twinax repeater, the OmniRepeater connects the far end via twinax and can daisy chain up to seven workstations. When used as a fiber converter, it converts the end device back to twinax via a second OmniRepeater, or directly to twisted pair via a fiber to twisted pair star.

The OmniRepeater diagnostics detect and display true port activity and parity errors. The ports are monitored for valid frame header patterns which are displayed via green Activity LEDs. The data is analyzed for errors; a detected error is displayed via red Parity Error LEDs. These features assist in installation and monitoring of the OmniRepeater operation.

In contrast to a standard active signal booster which is susceptible to device data rate variations, noise and crosstalk, the OmniRepeater’s Digital Phase Locking Architecture (PLA) provides data acquisition with data rate variations of -2% to +4%

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