Lantronix, Inc., the largest provider of secure, remote management, device networking and data center management technologies, has added the standard industrial protocol, Modbus, to XPort Pro.

XPort Pro, which is the world’s smallest Linux networking server, provides customers with an embedded Ethernet networking engine for installing advanced applications at the network edge. XPort Pro, along with Modbus, will offer customers power to communicate with, manage and control their energy monitoring and manufacturing equipment remotely and securely through the Internet, even if they are behind firewalls, according to a press release.

XPort Pro's form factor matches Lantronix's (News - Alert) original XPort. Its pioneering architecture, 32-bit processing power and ample memory enables the deployment of resource-intensive applications on a single platform.

 Offering Modbus on XPort Pro is an extension of Lantronix' strategy to continuously add advanced networking and security features to XPort Pro, enabling machine-to-machine communications.

"XPort Pro with Modbus will accelerate the transformation of machine networking by instantaneously getting key performance status for subsequent improvement of equipment uptime,” said Paul Pishal, vice president of product management at Lantronix, in a press release. “This will enable resource-constrained, highly-paid technical personnel to monitor and manage equipment from any location via the Internet.

“ XPort Pro offers unprecedented power at the machine level, becoming the eyes and ears of the support organization. Improving uptime or more effectively managing energy consumption requires real-time, secure networking technology with processing power to customize the most demanding applications,” he continued.