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unusual facts about Serial communications



Arbitrated loop

It is a serial architecture that can be used as the transport layer in a SCSI network, with up to 127 devices.

Video router

Many type of broadcast automation systems can be used to control a video router via IP, or serial communications such as the RS-422 9-Pin Protocol.

Xircom

Xircom acquired Entrega, a small company that produced the USB upgrade boards (for people with older PCs lacking universal serial bus connectors) and converters (USB to serial, to parallel, to Ethernet).


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SCADA

-- citations as support of the statements are fine --> In electric and gas utility SCADA systems, the vulnerability of the large installed base of wired and wireless serial communications links is addressed in some cases by applying bump-in-the-wire devices that employ authentication and Advanced Encryption Standard encryption rather than replacing all existing nodes.