Shared Serial Ports

Communication ports allow data transfers between applications, but usually a single port is assigned to a particular software program. Shared Serial Ports makes it possible for network administrators to split a port among multiple applications, which will all be able to send and receive data without risking a collision.

When a port is shared, what Shared Serial Ports actually does is create a virtual copy of the original COM port which, in turn, grants access to the initial port. In other words, this software utility can be used for emulating serial ports.

All the applications that send data via this connection should think that they have exclusive access to that particular physical port. To put it another way, with Shared Serial Ports, a COM port can be used by several applications, not just one.

Shared Serial Ports detects all the COM ports and displays them within its main window. By default, all the applications that access a shared port have both read and write access, but you can also define custom access rights.

The most interesting fact is how Shared Serial Ports manages to handle concurrent port access. Aside from allowing custom read and right access to an application, Shared Serial Ports enables you to define how serial port signal lines are managed. Applications sharing a port initiate requests to send data, send signals when they are ready to transmit packets, and so on.

Ensuring compliance with the RS232 standard, Shared Serial Ports allows high-speed data transfers from and to a serial port that is shared between multiple different applications. Connections can be monitored within its main window, which reveals all applications and details about the transmitted data.