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868 MHz, 902-982 MHz, 2.4 GHz 2-11 GHz 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz b/g - 2.4 GHz a - 5.0 GHz Data Rate 20 kbps, laptop battery

40 kbps, 250 kbps 480 Mbps 9.6 kbps, 19.2 kbps, 115 kbps 1 Mbps 11 Mbps, 54 Mbps 100-500 Mbps Distance 10-50m 10m 100m, 30km 10m - 100m b/g - 100m a - 50m 50 km Networking ad hoc, static, peer-to-peer point-to-point peer-to-peer point-to-point point-to-multipoint ad hoc, pico net point-to-multipoint Complexity low medium high Power Consumption thinkpad

very low As the wireless technologies and equipment continue to evolve, B B remains committed to be the technology leader and offer best-in-class equipment for industrial applications. End-to-End solutions with B B wired and wireless components have proven themselves in the tough world of the factory floor where reliability and cost effective network communication are vital. Home Products Partners Support Tech Notes News About Contact Site Map Privacy Policy microsoft

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Maxstream Products laptop computers

MaxStream Proprietary RF 900MHz 2.4GHz Wireless Radio Modems for Long (up to 40 miles!) and Short Range Communications View Complete Model Number Listing

Packaged (Stand alone) Radio Development Kit OEM (module) Radio NEMA Packaged Radio Overview Some data communications applications defy cabling. Whether youre facing long distances, impossible cable routing, or frequent re-location of devices, the simplicity, functionality, and reliable of these wireless solutions is the answer. These radio modems are easy to install and transparent to use. laptop computer

Need to reach up to 40 miles The new 9Xtend series of 900MHz stand-alone RF modems provides outstanding range in low cost wireless radio modems. They are RS-232/422/485 compatible. Models are available in an anodized aluminum case, a weatherproof NEMA case, or as a board component for inclusion in your product. This affordable RF modem outperforms others for hundreds of dollars less. desktop computer

These modems feature market-leading receiver sensitivity down to -110dBm (market average is -93 dBm). The FCC restricts the power of all radio modems output, so it is receiver sensitivity that governs how well a radio modem system works. This range, and reliability, offered at a lower price set these modems apart from their competition. notebooks

Common Features and Benefits:

Operation Modes: Peer-to-Peer, Point to Multi-Point, Point-to-Point, Multi-drop Transparent Network, Modbus Configuration: AT Command Line, Windows Software Spread Spectrum: FHSS (Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum) Frequency: ISM Band, 902 to 928MHz or 2.400 to 2.4385 GHz Modulation: FSK (Frequency Shift Keying) Antenna: Reverse Polarity SMA 2.1 dB Wave Dipole (included with packaged radios unless otherwise specified) lenovo

Mounting: Panel mountable (OEM solutions use a pin header and standoffs) Power Supply: Included (OEM modules do not include a power supply) 9XTend Proprietary RF 900 MHZ Long range, high bandwidth, and secure wireless communications hard drive

• Up to 1 Watt output power (1mW to 1W software selectable) travelstar

• Wide Temp -40 to 85C gateway

• 115K bps t hroughput laptop parts

• RS-232/422/485 (1200 to 230400 bps) software

• NEMA enclosure option hard drives

• 256-bit AES Encryption - AES algorithm meets Federal Information Processing Standard-197 (FIPS-197) electronics

• Range: canon

9XStream Proprietary RF 900 MHZ

Long range, low bandwidth wireless communications desktop pc

9XCite Proprietary RF 900 MHZ

Short range, low bandwidth wireless communications desktop computers

• 4 mW output power think pad

• 0 to 70 C or -40 to 85 C repair

• 9600 or 38400 bps t hroughput data recovery

• RS-232/422/485 (1200 to 57600 bps) cisco

• Range: keyboard

Indoors up to 300 feet with included dipole Outdoors up to 1000 feet with included dipole monitor

XPress Proprietary RF 900 MHz

Long range, high bandwidth Ethernet Bridge (does not have all the common features and benefits of the other Maxstream products) desktop

• 125 mW output power infosys

• -40 to 70 C refurbished laptops

• Ethernet Bridge (used in preconfigured pairs only) wipro

• Autocross Ethernet port lap top

• 12 unique channels allows up to 12 pairs of radios in one location refurbished

• Point to point communications memory

• 128 bit encryption intel

• Throughput: 935 kbps as400

• RF data rate: 1.5 Mbps averatec

• Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) hardware

• NEMA packaged outdoor product allows panel mounting, indoor model is designed for the desktop dual xeon

• Range: storage

Indoors up to 1000 feet with dipole antenna Indoors up to 2000 feet with high gain antenna Outdoors up to 2 miles with dipole antenna Outdoors up to 15 miles with high gain antenna seagate

• Includes two 2.5 dB dipole antennas (High Gain Yagi s sold separately) computer sales

XStream Proprietary RF Modems with Telephone Modem Interface

The XStream Telephone RF Modems provide long range wireless links between a fully-functional on-board telephone module and remote radio modems computer hardware

With a built-in speaker, RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) LEDs and outstanding range capabilities, the XStream products are an excellent solution for creating reliable wireless links and extending range between remote devices and public telephone lines. printers

• ISM 900 MHz or 2.4 GHz operating frequencies technology

• 100 mW (900 MHz) or 50 mW (2.4 GHz) power output (up to 20 mile range) mainframe

• RS-232/485 interfacing built-in samsung

• Commercial (0 to 70 C) or Industrial (-40 to 85 C) temperature ratings computer repair

• Advanced networking low-power modes supported used computers

Packaged Radios (panel mount and NEMA 4 enclosures) Family Throughput Transmit Power Special Features Model Number (0 to 70H) Price Buy Now (-40 to 85H) 9XTend 115 kbps 1mW to 1 Watt 256-bit encryption XT09-PKI-RA $299.95 Add this item to your shopping cart network

NEMA enclosure XT09-4EI-RA $498.95 NEMA enclosure XT09-4II-RA 9XStream 9600 bps 100 mW X09-009PKC-RA $249.95 Add this item to your shopping cart X09-009PKI-RA $264.95 19.2 kbps 100 mW X09-019PKC-RA Add this item to your shopping cart X09-019PKI-RA 100 mW digital cameras

50 mW X24-009PKC-RA $199.95 Add this item to your shopping cart X24-009PKI-RA $213.95 50 mW X24-019PKC-RA Add this item to your shopping cart X24-019PKI-RA 50 mW USB interface X24-009PKC-UA $198.95 Ethernet interface X24-009PKC-EA 9XStream and 24XStream - USB and Ethernet options are designed to work with an RS-232/422/485 radio on the other end, not to be used as a USB or Ethernet bridge. Sold in pairs. desktops

Industrial Versions: http://www.bb-elec.com/product_family.asp FamilyId=120 Commercial Versions: http://www.bb-elec.com/product_family.asp familyid=2 http://www.bb-elec.com/product_family.asp FamilyId=240 While a serial to Ethernet converter is well and good for a piece of equipment with a serial port, what about those cases where you just need sensor data We ve got solutions there as well. cognos

Connect most any sensor input to Ethernet with Adam 6000 modules: http://www.bb-elec.com/ .asp MultiFamilyId=12 Connect digital I/O wirelessly over 802.11: http://www.bb-elec.com/product_family.asp FamilyId=239 And any time you re connecting sensors, you run into the need for these accessories: Signal Conditioners and Isolators: http://www.bb-elec.com/product_family.asp FamilyId=247 hosting

Relays, Timers, Voltage Sensors: http://www.bb-elec.com/productsubcat.asp MainCategoryId=61 Terminal Blocks: http://www.bb-elec.com/ .asp MultiFamilyId=23 Unfortunately the fix to Longmont, Colorado s traffic system isn t as easy. While they ve got the connectivity side down pat, traffic engineer Olson has collected enough data to know that there are other drivers in his city making use of this easy shortcut so he s upgrading to a new system. Unfortunately for Longmont taxpayers, that s $67, 000 of new equipment. Luckily for you, we can get your legacy equipment online for far less! netfinity

From Extreme Skepticism to Wireless I/O

Dear Friend Subscriber: It s almost impossible to believe that just 10 years ago a lot of people thought industrial networks were risky, unreliable and extravagant. Now people are doing I/O over wireless Ethernet. Let s not forget that back then installing a modem in your Windows 95 computer often required eleven attempts at jumper switch configurations, device driver re-installs and machine reboots. Compared to all that, 75 feet of wire running from PLC to prox switch was a lot easier and a lot less expensive. internet

Still, I say: If Jane Q. Public can get her SMTP right and send emails to her tea-tasting friends, then wireless is surely practical too. Even in a world where your electricians distrust anything their voltmeter can t understand. cheap computer

So we re full steam ahead with a whole suite of wireless solutions. Wires are a big pain in the butt anyway. I m happy to report they re mostly unnecessary. If you re gonna replace wires with air, I ve got some things you ll want to know. digital camera

First, there s always a series of tradeoffs - between speed, redundancy, power consumption, complexity, distance. On this page you ll find a chart that helps you quickly determine which networks fit your requirements: printer

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You see here that Wireless USB and Bluetooth are great for short distance, high speed communication but would never work for a long distance app at a wastewater treatment plant. And there are very few industrial USB / Bluetooth products. 802.11 is the reliable standby these days. But if you re doing simple I/O it s got a lot of overhead and isn t going to be nearly as fast as it sounds. Not to mention, 802.11 will catch the interest of your IT department, I ll let you be the judge of whether that s good or bad xseries

ZigBee (more correctly, 802.15.4, but that s not nearly as fun to say) is great for sending short packets of data at low speed, but you wouldn t use it to transmit video. If you re using ZigBee here s what our Zlinx approach looks like: maxtor

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1. First, you decide whether you re doing simple Wire Replacement, or Modbus data communication between sensor and controller. 2. You choose a wireless base module. Based on your distance and I/O needs, you pick. Transmission range is 300 feet to 14 miles (20km). Hang our Wireless Base Module on a DIN rail next to your PLC. 3. You pick the wireless I/O modules you want. Various combinations of 2, 4 or 8 inputs / outputs available. Analog / digital. Snap them together with the base module. data storage

4. If you re using a Modbus system, choose a Radio Modem. There s a table that tells you which base module works with which radio modem. Communicates to your PLC or HMI via Modbus protocol. Connects to Wonderware, Labview or any other Modbus compatible software. Or, if you re just doing wire replacement (like remote sensors into PLC inputs), buy a pair of systems and set them to peer-to-peer mode. hitachi

5. Configuration software is free download. No registration fees. This is laid out in detail online, here: Next week I ll cover serial ports and how to make them transparently accessible to your Wireless World. Meanwhile you can get all the help you need from our tech support crew at (815)433-5100. Happy Wireless, Mike Fahrion support@bb-elec.com (815)433-5100 rational

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Deep Throat, Flower Pots and Mighty Deeds of Valor

Mike - I think you need to start a how to write a cheese free newsletter course I can think of many companies that need your help! Signed, Disgruntled Dish Manage Your Subscription Home News eConnections Archive June 8, 2005 - Deep Throat, Flower Pots and Mighty Deeds of Valor battery

Deep Throat, Flower Pots and Mighty Deeds of Valor

Dearest Friend Subscriber, it support

Ol Deep Throat finally came forward with his real identity. western digital

Dang, I was hoping for... well, someone more mysterious and intriguing than a 91 year old grandpa. Perhaps a vast conspiracy from the Trilateral Commission or a deep dark plot from the mind of Jimmy Hoffa. You know, something worthy of a Watergate scandal. music

But after reading about Deep Throat and his clandestine meetings with the young reporter Mr. Woodward, I did get some new ideas that we re going to implement right away here at B B. This is gonna keep competitors from finding out about our new products. networks

Me and my engineers are going to start giving each other secret signals involving a flower pot and a red flag. toner

And if there s a message I need to get to Mario, email is strictly forbidden. From now on, I circle page 20 of his copy of the New York Times, delivered to his apartment, and draw the hands of a clock indicating the time we re to meet that night. The first meeting will be at 2am in barn outside Ottawa, Illinois. cheap laptops

Speaking of clandestine meetings and secret signals, let s talk about System Integrators for a minute. wholesale

Got a call on a Thursday afternoon from one in Montana. Needed some RS-485 USB isolated converters pronto, was wondering if we could drive some of these over to Milwaukee for a Substation job that had to be finished by Friday. Plus, this was just before Memorial Day weekend. brother

I said, Take this job and shove it, pal. netvista

OK, so I didn t say that. I actually called my competitors local distributors (the ones we keep in the dark with those flower pots, flags and 2am product planning meetings in a barn). camera

Naturally the competitors distributors had nothing in stock - not even anything similar. networking

Zip. Zero. Nada. sharp

- Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory - memory that retains data even when the power is off. EISA - Extended Industry Standard Architecture. A 32-bit PC expansion bus designed as a superset of the ISA bus. Designed to expand the speed and data width of the legacy expansion bus while still supporting older ISA cards. ISA bus cards can plug into EISA slots. cheap

EMI/RFI

- Electro Magnetic Interference/Radio Frequency Interference: signals generated by expanding/collapsing magnetic fields such as motors, transformers, arc welding, fluorescent/neon lighting, radio/television Transmitters, motor brushes, lightning. EMI/RFI Immunity - The level at which a device or signal is unaffected by EMI/RFI Enhanced Address Decoding - windows

Decoding of the full 16-bits of the ISA bus address and the full 32-bits of the PCI bus address. Some interface cards don t decode the full address. This means that such a card will respond to commands at more than one address, so that conflicts with other cards are more likely. Decoding the full address prevents a card from causing conflicts. monitors

Enhanced Timer Mode

- A timer feature used to prevent slave devices from receiving preamble commands, inadvertent switching from binary/graphic file transfers, and inactive slave devices from holding control of the master port. The switch can monitor the data line, if there is not any activity for a specific time it will disconnect from the master. Alternately, the switch can ignore commands for a specific amount of time. linux

EPP

- Enhanced Printer Port - a printer port that has additional registers and generates the handshaking signals in hardware. Compared to a standard printer port which requires several port writes and reads for each byte transferred, once a EPP port is set to EPP mode, only one write is needed for each byte. EPP software is required to use the EPP port in EPP mode, otherwise it functions as a SPP (Standard Printer Port) or BPP (Bi-directional Printer Port). computer support

Ethernet

- A type of LAN invented by the Xerox Corporation and developed in cooperation with DEC and Intel. The original Ethernet specification served as the basis for the IEEE 802.3 standard, which specifies the physical and lower software layers. Originally Ethernet was specified to transfer data over thick coaxial cable at a speed of 10 Mbps. Now the term Ethernet typically encompasses all of the versions of the IEEE standard, which has adapted to include higher data rates and different media, including thin coaxial, twisted-pair, and fiber optic systems. used laptops

The most common types of Ethernet in use today are 10BaseT, which uses twisted pair cable at 10 Mbps, 100BaseT (or Fast Ethernet), which uses twisted pair cable at 100 Mbps, and 1000BaseT (or Gigabit Ethernet) which uses twisted pair cable at 1 Gbps. Fiber optic cable is also a popular medium for each of the connection speeds. cameras

Ethernet Port Server

- A device that connects to the LAN with Ethernet connections. It may provide serial services to the network, printer services, CD-ROM services, Facsimile or other services. Externally Powered - scanners

1. Requires connection of a power source such as AC or DC. The required power source is rated for the type of voltage in volts (VAC or VDC), and the required current in mA (milli-Amps), A (Amps) or VA (Volt-Amps)/Watts. panasonic

2. A externally powered converter which doesn t support Port Power must obtain power though connection terminals, a DC Jack or Connector pins. Isolated converters may require port power for the RS-232 side, a power supply for the RS-422/485 side. workstation

Fallback Switch

- A switch that normally selects a primary data path for serial connections, the selects a secondary data path if the primary data path is lost. The B B fallback switch supports this mode, or can select the primary data path until the alternate data path is activated, it then selects the alternate path until the alternate device is finished, then the primary data path is reselected. The B B fallback switch can also be used as a port combiner that selects the primary or alternate when data is ready for transfer, locks out the other path until transfer is completed. iseries

Fax Class 1 Commands

- A standard set of Facsimile (FAX) machine commands supported by some FAX/Modems. Fax Class 2 Commands - An extended set of Facsimile (FAX) machine commands supported by some FAX/Modems. Female (Connector) - Connector which has a receptacle socket (holes) for pins. When F follows the connector type, the connector is a female connector. backup

Fiber Optic

- Light transmission through flexible transmissive fibers for communications, imaging, or lighting. Offers significant distance, bandwidth, isolation, and EMI/RFI immunity over traditional copper installations. Fiber Optic Converters - A signal converter with fiber optic transmitter and fiber optic receiver for the optical signals and electrical inputs outputs for another signal format such as RS-232, RS-422 or 2-wire or 4-wire RS-485. information technology

FIFO (buffer)

- First In, First Out - FIFO implies a queue and buffer to hold it. The oldest data item in the buffer is the first item retrieved. Contrast with LIFO (Last In, First Out) which operates like a data stack, items placed on the stack are retrieved first in the order of last first. Full Duplex - A full duplex communications system is able to transmit and receive at the same time. Two communications paths are provided, one for each direction. Examples are RS-232, RS-422 and 4-wire RS-485. (2-wire RS-485 is half duplex) routers

Gender Reverser

- A connector with dual male or dual female connectors wired pin for pin. Used to change or connect two female devices together (using dual male) or two male devices together (using dual female). GHz - Giga Hertz (Hz x 10 to the 9th power) - 1 GHz=1000 MHz GPS - Global Positioning System - A device which uses 3 or more of at least 24 satellites in orbit to determine the local position on earth of the receiver. 3 satellites are needed for a 2D fix, 4 for a 3D fix which includes altitude. Accuracy of position can vary depending on the location of the satellites used, altitude accuracy for civilian uses can vary by +/- 500 ft. Two frequencies are used, L1 (1575.42MHz) for civilian, L2 for military. The date and time are broadcast for positioning references to downloaded tables used to calculate the position. GPS receiver outputs are used in marine and land based navigation systems which interface to a computer through RS-232 or RS-422/485 serial connections. 180gxp

Ground Loops

- When two or more devices are connected to a common ground through different paths, a ground loop occurs. Currents flow through these multiple paths and develop voltages which can cause damage, noise or 50Hz/60Hz hum in audio or video equipment. To prevent ground loops, all signal grounds need to go to one common point and when two grounding points cannot be avoided, one side must isolate the signal and grounds from the other. notebook battery

Grounding Strap

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1. A heavy solid or braided wire cable used to provide a low resistance path from a device to a earth ground. Used with surge suppressors. lotus

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