Description

Datalink DL2000 Protocol Converter Simple Type: Protocol Converter The DL2000 Communications Controller is a freestanding microprocessor controlled protocol converter and communication interface designed to interconnect different manufacturers’ devices and networks in industrial applications. DL2000s enable industrial Local Area Networks (LANs) such as Allen-Bradley (A-B) Data Highway Plus (DH+), A-B Remote I/O Link (RIO), and Modicon Modbus to be connected to a wide variety of other manufacturers’ products and networks. The multi-purpose DL2000 uses a high performance hardware platform together with communication software and drivers loaded in Programmable Read Only Memory (PROM). The hardware permits direct connection of the LAN to RS232, RS422, and RS485 asynchronous serial ports on computers, PCs, programmable controllers (PLCs) and human-machine interfaces (HMIs). The DL2000 platform will also connect OEM equipment, slave devices such as printers, message displays and variable speed drives etc. to industrial networks such as DH+, RIO and Modbus. Standard DL2000 products can be used directly in applications that already have a software driver for Allen-Bradley DF1 protocol i.e. IEEE / ANSI X3.28 protocol (D1 and F1 subset). Custom DL2000 products can be designed to work with the client’s native protocol. This unit is designed for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) applications requiring point-to-point or multi-drop modem communications to interconnect a local LAN to single or multiple remote LANs. In addition, the multi-functional hardware design of the DL2000 forms the basis of a complete family of flexible communication devices and protocol converters suitable for a wide range of device and network interconnectivity applications.