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ABACUS4 Networking

• TCP/IP Ethernet
• The world standard for data communication (used in The Internet) affords quick and reliable communications between any number of computers in one or more networks.
• SLIP, CSLIP, PPP serial speeds up to 115KBaud
• For remotely sited installations where dial-up telephone, or radio communications is required any of these protocols may be used between locations.
• The Internet.
• Since the communicating protocol is TCP/IP ABACUS 4 systems may be directly connect to The Internet and engineering (even operator) functions may be performed from anywhere in the world! (Subject of course to the normal UNIX security regimes)
• Remote Displays
• The display system is based on a client/server model, so the display may be seen on any suitabley configured network connected operator station. License free client software (based on TCL/Tk ) for Linux, UNIX, Windows and Mac is available.
• Remote Engineering
• With the use of VNC (http://www.tightvnc.org/) both displays and engineering facilities may be run remotely.
• Using SSH, secure password restricted encrypted communications allows authorized users secure encrypted access to the system from anywhere on the network (and even on the internet).
• Communicates with BBL Open Enterprise (and VAX based Enterprise systems)
• Using either Ethernet or one of the serial protocols, ABACUS 4 can send to and receive data from an Open Enterprise Server.