What is Virtual COM Port (Previously known as Virtual COM Driver)

Virtual COM port is a method that can be used for accessing the media converter configured as Virtual COM Mode by using Win32APIs used for Windows standard communication.
For virtual COM ports, up to 32 ports can be used at the same time.

For virtual COM ports, Virtual COM driver and Virtual COM Server are needed.

When application issues communication Win32APIs to Virtual COM driver, device driver gets the handling and pass to Virtual COM server.
Virtual COM server performs network communication with media converter, pass the result to Virtual COM driver.
Applications can use the Win32 API for communication to obtain communication results from the virtual COM driver.

See also

- Procedure of Setting Virtual COM Port
- How to Uninstall Virtual COM Port
- List of Supported Win32API
- Virtual COM Driver Sample
- Attention when Using Virtual COM Port