User guide

1: Freeway Introduction
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Summary of Freeway product features:
• Elimination of difficult LAN and WAN programming and systems integration by
providing a powerful and consistent data link interface (DLI)
• Access to communication protocols from multiple different client operating sys-
tems and hardware platforms
• Support for multiple WAN communication protocols simultaneously
• Support for multiple ICPs (two, four, or eight communication lines per ICP)
• Creation of customized server-resident application (SRA) software, using on-
server software development tools
• Freeway server standard support for Ethernet and Fast Ethernet LANs running
the transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP)
• Freeway server management interactive menus available through a local console,
ssh, telnet, rlogin, or web browser.
• Freeway server performance monitoring with the simple network management
protocol (SNMP),
Summary of ICP product features:
• Variety of off-the-shelf communication protocols available from Protogate
• Software selectable electrical interfaces including EIA-232, EIA-449, EIA-530, and
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• Creation of customized ICP-resident protocol software, using Protogate’s proto-
col software development toolkit
• Custom protocol software available from Protogate engineering