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Coax to RJ45

I provide support for a police station who uses a system that comes in over a coax cable, and is then split out 4 or 5 ways via an old ibm coax hub. The coax cable then run directly to various workstations and into an attachmate 3270 coax card. Using Terminal Emulation, they are able to connect to the application. I'd like to get some input on what the most effective way to go about converting that coax signal to rj45 and running it to the workstations over ethernet. Is there some kind of hardware that I'd need to buy?

Pete Long

you need a tranciever

rj45 to BNC tranciver

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celsmk

Forgot to give you a link for more reading on SNA gateways:
http://www.dataconnection.com/sna/whitepaper.htm

cooljai1

I think all you would need is a media converter as the one given in this page
http://www.cables.com/miva/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=CARA&Product_Code=502443&Category_Code=mediaconverters

Mike_Carroll

Normal solution would be a transceiver as PeteLong as suggested but generally, it's far cheaper and more convenient to get yourself a small hub that has both BNC and RJ45 ports. They're all 10 meg (limited by the coax) and you can pick them up for next to nothing.

Cheers,

M

PennGwyn

celsmk is right. 3270 coax is NOT 10-Base2 Ethernet, and a simple transceiver or media converter will not make it so.

bfarmer

celsmk and PennGwyn are correct. You can't convert that signal to ethernet. It's serial communication.

But odds are unless it's truly ancient the Mainframe is reachable via IP. Or has an SNA gateway reachable via IP.

You need to speak with the Mainframe support folks. Attachmate can be configured to point to an IP address rather than use the installed card.