Omnitron OmniRepeater 400 5250 Express - repeater

The OmniRepeater 400 is an IBM 5250 and 5250 Express compatible repeater and fiber converter. It retimes and regenerates the data signal to facilitate extended twinax distances and provides twinax to fiber conversion which enables 5250 fiber data connectivity. It supports distances of up to 5,000 feet on twinax, 15,000 feet on multimode fiber and 30,000 feet on single-mode fiber. The OmniRepeater can be cascaded up to four units to reach extra long distances. The host connects to the OmniRepeater via twinax. When used as a twinax repeater, the OmniRepeater connects the far end via twinax and can daisy chain up to seven workstations. When used as a fiber converter, it converts the end device back to twinax via a second OmniRepeater, or directly to twisted pair via a fiber to twisted pair star. The OmniRepeater diagnostics detect and display true port activity and parity errors. The ports are monitored for valid frame header patterns which are displayed via green Activity LEDs. The data is analyzed for errors; a detected error is displayed via red Parity Error LEDs. These features assist in installation and monitoring of the OmniRepeater operation. In contrast to a standard active signal booster which is susceptible to device data rate variations, noise and crosstalk, the OmniRepeater's Digital Phase Locking Architecture (PLA) provides data acquisition with data rate variations of -2% to +4% while providing superior noise and crosstalk immunity. The Express models operate with both the 5250 and 5250 Express protocols. Each port provides data rates of 1 Mbps for standard 5250 and 2 Mbps for 5250 Express protocol. The OmniRepeater 400 is completely software-transparent and no setup or any changes are required.