FabulaTech develops Virtualization Solution Product Line

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"FabulaTech has started a virtualization campaign aimed at informing IT management and general publicity of the most comprehensive usb and serial port vitualization solutions providing a unified individual approach to developing and monitoring every single solution. The following list represents a long-awaited request by the public to summarize most popular virtualization solutions. Here we go.

USB virtualization solutions:

1. USB over Network. This is a software solution that allows to use remote USB devices as if they were plugged into one's own PC. This usb network solution allows to share any USB device without risk of losing it.

2. USB for Remote Desktop. It allows to work with local USB devices from remote Windows session. It supports a wide range of USB devices and does not require any special knowledge and installs easily right out of the box.

3. USB Redirector. The solution is designed to share USB device over LAN or the Internet and access remote USB devices.

4. USB Monitor. This solution is an effective and at the same time simple in use analyzer of USB traffic for Windows. It allows to monitor incoming and outgoing data of any USB device plugged into the computer.

Serial/COM port virtualization solutions:

1. Serial Port Mapper. It allows you to map any serial ports to any other ports. E.g. you install additional COM port expansion card to computer as COM7 serial port but your favorite software can work with COM1 port only. To resolve this problem you can use this solution.

2. Virtual Serial Port Kit. It's very useful for debugging. The solution creates pairs of virtual serial ports in your system which are virtually connected to each other. Physical null modem cables are not required. You can connect any number of virtual port pairs.

3. Virtual Serial Port Control. It creates virtual COM ports directly from your own programs and fully control them! Provide interaction between serial communications applications and your program.

4. Virtual Modem. There are many old communication applications that require a direct modem connection. This program allows you to substitute physical phone lines with a local TCP/IP network or the Internet without investing thousands into new communication software.

5. Serial Port Splitter. It shares dataflow of one COM port between several applications or vice versa to join dataflow of several COM port devices to one application.

6. Serial Port Redirector. The solution connects a serial application to a remote TCP socket. This allows you to utilize modern hardware COM servers without changing your software or exchange data between a TCP/IP application and an old-fashioned program that doesn't support TCP/IP.

7. Serial Port Control. This is an inexpensive royalty-free component. You can use it with any development environment, such as VB, VB .Net, VC++, C#, Delphi, etc. Just put it on a form and vou've got all the functionality you need to access an RS232 port. The event driven architecture makes it a snap to use. Just define a function in your program and it will be triggered automatically when new data is available through the port.

8.Network Serial Port Kit. You can connect data collection serial devices: bar code scanners, modems, sensors, gages, RF equipment, telephone PBX systems, laboratory or industrial instruments, and so on - to the serial ports of your computer to deliver that data anywhere over any TCP/IP based network. Program creates up to 254 virtual serial ports at a time. Physical COM ports located on remote computer can be connected to host computer over the network as well.

All the programs hold OEM license thus providing the possibility to be distributed as a part of any other software. Time to say "hello" to mobility and virtualization has come. "

Virtual Serial. Control virtual serial ports.

Virtual Serial Port Control is the virtual serial program which creates virtual serial ports and controls them. Created virtual ports look like as if they were real hardware serial ports for communications applications. What the program is meant for: sometimes there is a task to provide interaction between communications application and your own program (e.g. hardware device emulator), there is no common solution to accomplish it. Virtual Serial Port Control creates additional virtual serial ports directly from your own program. And any communications application can work with them as if they were physical ports.

Main features at a glance:

• Virtual serial ports look and work like real COM ports.
• Unlimited number of virtual COM ports can be created.
• Virtual serial ports can have the same names as existing hardware COM ports (e.g. COM1).
• Powerful and intuitive interface to make serial port communications easy.
• Delivers all the capabilities of the Win32 Serial Communications API.
• Notifies your application when data arrives or events occur on the port.
• Supports reading and writing of binary data.
• Full buffered data transfer.
• Comes with example applications (Visual Basic, Visual C++).
• Can be redistributed as part of your application.

I give 5-star rating to this program.

How to: Control Serial Ports

It's very easy to create and control virtual serial ports. Moreover, you can connect any serial application to it. Today we will talk about the program which accomplish this task perfectly. Virtual Serial Port Control. Being an ActiveX control which makes it possible to create virtual serial ports and control them fully, the program creates virtual ports which look like as if they were real hardware serial ports for communications applications. Port Control allows you to create additional virtual serial ports directly from your own program. And any communications application can work with them as if they were physical ports.

The event driven architecture is a soft snap. You don't have to check ports periodically in order to find whether their state is changed or new data is available for reading from the virtual port. Just define the needed function in your program that will be triggered automatically by the appropriate event and that will process the data.

At the same time the Virtual Serial Port Control immediately notifies your application about any actions done to the serial port by the communications application (port opening/closing, setting DTR/RTS handshake, baudrate setting, XON/XOFF symbols setting, etc).

Main program's features at a glance:

• Virtual serial ports look and work like real COM ports.
• Unlimited number of virtual COM ports can be created.
• Virtual serial ports can have the same names as existing hardware COM ports (e.g. COM1).
• Powerful and intuitive interface to make serial port communications easy.
• Delivers all the capabilities of the Win32 Serial Communications API.
• Notifies your application when data arrives or events occur on the port.
• Supports reading and writing of binary data.
• Full buffered data transfer.
• Comes with example applications (Visual Basic, Visual C++).
• Can be redistributed as part of your application.

The program is compatible with full Microsoft serial.sys, PnP and WMI technologies, Hyper-Threading Technology, VMware, Serial data bitrate (transmission speed) emulation, Virtual serial ports configuration via Windows Device Manager.

Virtual Serial. Windows CE. Windows Mobile

Virtual Serial Port Kit CE was designed to create virtual serial ports and connect each pair of them via virtual null-modem cable. As a result all data written to one virtual serial port can be immediately read from the other one and vice versa. What is especially attractive about this virtual serial software is that its functionality can be easily integrated into any other software.
If you work with Windows Mobile serial applications joined by null-modem cable (especially if those applications require more than one serial ports pair), then this program is especially useful for you. This solution can be used for GPS simulation program too.

This virtual serial program speeds up development process during debugging and data-logging period. You can debug your program (which uses serial port) by connecting it to another program (e.g. serial device emulator).

Main features at a glance:

• Full hardware serial ports emulation
• Virtual serial ports look and work like real hardware ports
• Up to 9 virtual COM port pairs can be created
• Once created virtual ports are operable at each system startup (prior to user login)
• Virtual communication is more fast and reliable than via real null modem cable
  
• User-friendly program interface
• Hot Virtual COM port creation and removal
• One click enable/disable button for all virtual serial ports

Top Ten Virtualization Softwares

Recently votelists.com has posted top ten virtualization softwares. The list has been updated recently. This is a great source for anyone seeking a good software. Your comments are more than welcome.

USB adapter. USB Monitor.

USB Adapter or in other words USB Monitor is an effective and simple in use analyzer of USB traffic for Windows. It allows to monitor incoming and outgoing data of a USB device plugged into the computer. It's an indispensable tool for a developer of firmware and drivers for USB devices, expanding developer's arsenal. What captures my interest is its simplicity of use. Program's development is based on a long-standing experience in USB devices drivers development and you can easily make sure how much it's convenient and simple in use. Just choose the device and start monitoring.

USB Monitor general features:

• Updating list of packets in real time for non-stop analysis
• Monitoring of a hot-plugged device
• Saving of captured data for further examination
• Separate records for request initiation and completion
• Filtering mechanism for limiting the volume of captured data to concentrate on the most important information
• Monitoring of several USB devices simultaneously
• Software restart of USB device

These are only a few features. The program is really great.

Ethernet modem 2.0

Ethernet modem 2.0 was launched this Monday which allows any modem communications applications to interact via LAN or the Internet based on full hardware emulation technology. Application "dials" remote IP address instead of making a dial-direct call using hardware modem. Moreover, it looks as if the application worked with hardware modem. But in fact, a hardware modem is not used.

General features of the program:

• Virtual modems look and work like real hardware modems
• Applications use virtual modems directly from virtual serial ports or through TAPI
• Up to 256 virtual modems can be created
• Virtual modems can "dial" to remote virtual modems using IP address (or computer name) and TCP-port instead of phone number
• Virtual modems can accept "incoming calls" from other virtual modems
• Phone book. It allows you to simplify switch to virtual modems from hardware modems. You can specify telephone number corresponding to IP address (or computer name) and TCP-port of remote virtual modems.

Virtual Modem is successfully used in such spheres as financial systems, credit card transaction, legal information database access, real estate information systems, device control and data acquisition, building automation, security systems.