SENA SS800 - Manual (Page 8)

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1. Introduction
1.1. Overview
The HelloDevice Super Series is a Universal terminal server (or device server) that makes your legacy
serial devices manageable by industry-standard Ethernet network. Based on open network protocols
such as TCP/IP and UDP, it gives you ultimate flexibility to your serial devices. With PPPoE (PPP-
over-Ethernet) connection feature of the HelloDevice Super Series, the RS232/422/485 serial devices
could be managed over DSL-based broadband network.
With the rich broadband network connectivity protocols such as DHCP, PPPoE and Dynamic DNS,
you could easily manage the legacy serial devices over broadband Internet by using DSL or cable
modem connection. The built-in Dynamic DNS protocol of the HelloDevice Super Series enables you
to access the serial devices with their domain names.
The HelloDevice Super Series also provides you with full-featured system management functionality of
system status display, firmware upgrade, remote reset and system log display by using various ways
such as telnet, serial console port or web.
You could easily configure and administrate the HelloDevice Super Series, with the full-featured
management functions of status monitor, remote reset, error log monitor and firmware upgrade by
using Telnet and serial console port under the password protection support.
For critical applications of secure data communication, the HelloDevice Super Series supports SSLv2,
SSLv3 and TLSv1 for data encryption. In addition, IP address filtering function is provided for
protecting unintentional data streams to be transmitted to the HelloDevice Super Series.
Typical application areas of the HelloDevice Super Series are:
- Industrial automation
- Network management
- Retail/Point of sale
- Remote metering
- Remote display
- Building automation
- Security/Access control systems
- General data acquisition application
- Medical application
The HelloDevice Super Series gives you ideal remote management capability of control, monitoring,
diagnosis and data gathering over RS232/422/485 serial devices.
Please note that this manual assumes user knowledge of Internetworking protocols and serial
communications.