Serial Ports

Extron IP Link® products have one or more serial ports for connections to AV devices such as projectors, displays, monitors and other AV peripherals.  "Serial Port" and other related terms are defined below.

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RS-232 – An Electronic Industries Association (EIA) serial digital interface standard specifying the characteristics of the communication path between two devices using either DB-9 or DB-25 connectors.  This standard is used for relatively short-range communications and does not specify balanced control lines.  RS-232 is a serial control standard with a set number of conductors, data rate, word length, and type of connector to be used.  The standard specifies component connection standards with regard to the computer interface.  It is also called RS-232-C, which is the third version of the RS-232 standard, and is functionally identical to the CCITT V.24 standard.

Serial Port – An input and output connection on the computer that allows it to communicate with other devices in a serial fashion — data bits flowing on a single pair of wires.  The serial port is used with RS-232 protocol.