Advantages
INAT echolink is a Serial Ethernet converter. With echolink, devices without network adapter are able to communicate via network. Echolink supports a wide range of serial protocols. Therefore echolink is much more than a simple data converter. It supports complex applications such as PLC programming or process data visualisation.

¡@¡E Visualization, Measurement data logging, Statistics etc.
¡@¡E Programming of Simatic S7 / S5 / 505 via LAN and WAN (with VCOM no Softnet* required)
¡@¡E Remote maintenance of the S7 / S5 / 505 via LAN and WAN
¡@¡E Ethernet interface for Simatic S5 (AG 90U, 95U, 100U, 115U, 135U, 150U, 155U) via PG port
¡@¡E Ethernet interface for Simatic S7 (S7-200, S7-300, S7-400) via MPI / PPI port
¡@¡E Modbus RTU (serial) to Modbus on TCP converter
¡@¡E Active data transfer between PLCs without programming (echoactive)
¡@¡E Integration of older systems and devices without Ethernet interface into the network
¡@¡E Fetch / Write communication with S5 PLCs without handling blocks
¡@¡E Webserver functionality to realize small visualization projects: Visualization without PHP, ActiveX, Perl, Applets et
¡@¡@al. only with HTML
¡@¡E Optional: Integrated switch to connect other network nodes
¡@¡E Ethernet interface for Honeywell / Klockner-Moller IPC controllers via CIM port (ABC protocol)

¡@¡E S7 PLCs with MPI/PPI interface ==> with MPI onboard no MPI adapter is required
¡@¡E S5 PLCs and programming devices
¡@¡E all devices with RS232/422/485 interface e.g. Scales, Scanner
¡@¡E Klockner-Moeller IPC-620 PLCs

¡@¡E Conventional Serial Ethernet Converters master only protocols from layer 1 up to layer 4 of the ISO / OSI reference
¡@¡@model. Communication is restricted to the transport layer i.e. transfer of raw data (layer 4 communication,
¡@¡@Send /Receive)
¡@¡E In addition to the transport protocols, echolink supports application protocols. Protocol conversion of all seven
¡@¡@layers of the ISO / OSI reference model is possible.
¡@¡E As these "higher-level" protocols are supported, complex applications become possible: process data
¡@¡@visualisation, communication between different controller worlds (Siemens, Schneider etc) or programming.

¡@¡E A distinction is drawn between active and passive job types: active writing of data to the partner station and active
¡@¡@fetching of data from the partner station are active job types as well as Send / Receive jobs.
¡@¡E What kind of jobs are possible depends primarily on the used protocol. With certain protocols only passive jobs
¡@¡@are possible (e.g. S5 PLC with AS511 protocol: PLC is able to receive data and to provide data, but the PLC is
¡@¡@not able to send data actively or to fetch data from another PLC)
¡@¡E With the function echoactive, devices, that are - in consequence to their protocol - not able to execute active
¡@¡@jobs, receive this possibilty.
¡@¡E Echolink is monitoring specific data-values in the PLC. When the values change, then the echolink is fetching the
¡@¡@data from the PLC and is sending them across the network to the specified communication partner.
¡@¡E WITHOUT CHANGING THE PLC PROGRAM

¡@¡E Programming the S7/S5 is possible via Ethernet with S7/S5 for Windows as well as with STEP* 5 / STEP* 7.
¡@¡E With VCOM, included in the range of delivery, Softnet* is no longer required.
¡@¡E Programming AEG PLCs (A 120 / A 150) via LAN and WAN

¡@¡E Communication between PLCs via LAN and WAN.
¡@¡E Communication between two PLCs serially connected to echolink

¡@¡E Echolink is equipped with top hat rail adapter
¡@¡E An adapter for S7-300 rail mounting is available as option

¡@¡E Online via IP
¡@¡E Online via H1
¡@¡E Seriall
¡@¡E Offline

¡@¡E Including top hat rail adapter
¡@¡E Including VCOM for Programming via Ethernet

A connector power pack is not included in the delivery, If necessary order it separately.
¡@¡E Version EURO
¡@¡E Version UK
¡@¡E Version USA
Echolink basic is not equipped with interface modules, You has to order it separately.
¡@¡E A maximum number of two MPI interfaces
¡@¡E MPI interface on COM1 is not possible
¡@¡E A maximum number of four RS485 interfaces
¡@¡E With one ore more TTY interface(s) a maximum number of two RS232 interfaces
¡@¡E With one or more RS485 interface(s) a maximum number of two RS232 interfaces
¡@¡E Combination of RS422 and RS485 not possible