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Mercury
www.GEDigitalEnergy.com
www.GEDigitalEnergy.com
Multi-use, Industrial Infrastructure
With high WiMAX throughput, an organization may deploy an MDS
Mercury solution to provide communications to mission critical polling
and monitoring devices with enough capacity remaining to provide
additional services such as video surveillance, Voice over IP (VoIP), and
with Mercury 900, mobile data.
Service flows dedicate bandwidth for specific applications, and Quality
of Service (QoS) further prioritizes data within service flows based on
a number of configurable criteria.
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Finally, VLAN tagging facilitates
segregating sensitive operational data from administrative and
overhead communications.
Advanced roaming algorithms make Mercury 900 the choice for
mobile applications. The Mercury remote switches access points
based on several criteria, such as signal strength, distance, and a
combination of signal strength, distance, and bearing.
All MDS Mercury radios provide extreme operational temperature
ranges, -30C to +70C, are housed in a rugged, aluminum chassis, and
are tested for shock and vibration according to military standards.
These radios are built for mission critical, industrial deployments.
More Deterministic Deployments
The MDS Mercury platform provides channel selection options to
permit using the clearest channels in a given area, which facilitates
optimized and more consistent throughput and latencies. Single
channels may be selected, or for Mercury 900, multiple channels may
be selected in the frequency hopping pattern.
Additionally, Time-Division Duplexing synchronizes access points
(APs) to facilitate co-location of APs and overlap of coverage without
introducing self-inflicted interference.
Networking Flexibility
Serial protocol support, both active and transparent, provides
communications to legacy and proprietary solutions as easily as
Ethernet communications. Whether active Modbus TCP or transparently
passing through TCP server, TCP client, Modbus TCP, Modbus RTU, and
more, the MDS Mercury platform seamlessly provides a wide array of
protocol support.
Additionally, frequency options available with the Mercury platform
provide organizations the ability to select the most appropriate
frequency for their applications.
Secure Communications
Sensitive communications must be protected from over-the-air capture
and deciphering, and networks must be protected from unauthorized
access. The MDS Mercury platform provides AES 128-bit encryption to
protect data as it travels the air waves. Secure network authentication
is provided by Radius authentication and MAC address filtering. Finally,
sensitive data may be segregated using VLAN tagging.
Multi-use, Secure Infrastructure
Single-box Solution
Flexible and More Deterministic
· Reducespoints-of-failure
· Reducesinfrastructureupto67%
· Easesmaintenance,support,andsparing
· Highthroughputtosupportmultiple
applications, to include high speed mobile
data, video surveillance, collection point data
aggregation, and VoIP
· Transmissionsecurity,networkauthentication
security, and segregation of sensitive data
· Frequencyoptionsforbest-bandperformance
selection
· FullEthernetandserialprotocolsupport--in
the same chassis
· Abilitytoblock"noisy"channels
Mercury Application Advantages
Mercury Mobile Remote enables
advanced roaming between multiple
access points
Metering from
over 200 homes
Data Collection*
Fixed Remote
Fixed Remote
Access Point
Data Control Center
Range - Up to 4 miles
Range - Up to 15 miles
* Communication between the Access Point and the Data Control Center is achieved via a Backhaul device, such as the MDS Intrepid series
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