Converting USB traffic to Ethernet to avoid a long cable run

I have an industrial computer cabinet ( near cabinet ) to which Ethernet cable has already been run. Because of an oversight in the design of the system, a proprietary interface module that needs to communicate with the computer in the near cabinet must be installed. This module would get power from and communicate over a small run of USB cable with the Windows computer inside this cabinet. The problem is that we must run RS-485 from a distant cabinet to this cabinet for the interface module to read industrial sensors, or we must move the interface module itself to the distant cabinet with a l

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