工业SCADA的超级高速无线系统

Redline Communications, a provider of broadband wireless solutions for industrial machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, today announced the availability of Redline Transport Gateway (RTG) Connect, a new family of wireless networking products specifically designed to securely connect industrial SCADA systems.

SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) is a type of M2M communication used for the monitoring and control of industrial processes such as the flow of oil in a pipeline, energy across a grid, or water inside a water treatment system. In a SCADA system, hundreds and often thousands of sensors are used to monitor a wide range of device attributes. These sensors are polled periodically and their collected data is sent back to a control center where it is analyzed and used for corrective actions.

灵活的RTG连接启用了基于串行和TCP/IP/IP的SCADA现场设备和遥控中心之间的高速无线通信。这种高速连接可以从设备（例如可编程逻辑控制器（PLC），远程终端单元（RTU），天然气收表和泵控制器等设备的控制和控制。然后，在红线分布式无线宽带主链往返SCADA主机系统的红线分布式无线宽带主链上，这次敏感数据将以高速传递，该主机可以在数百英里之外。

“Wireless networks powered by Redline’s Connect terminals are on average eight times faster than competing systems, delivering 2 Mbps at the port, making real-time transmission of unprecedented volumes of SCADA data over local and wide area networks possible for the first time,” said Rodney Cronin, director of product management at Redline Communications. “For TCP/IP SCADA devices, the increased speed and lower latency offered by Redline’s Connect system mean realizing the full benefits of real-time wireless communications including faster polling, more timely data, greater visibility and improved management of distributed devices.”

Typical serial SCADA networks operate at less than 256 Kbps, but as manufacturers increasingly add TCP/IP support to their SCADA field devices to give them remote management and control capabilities, the networks must be capable of transporting large volumes of data with minimal latency.

The RTG Connect family offers SCADA automation teams unparalleled flexibility for system design. The RTG Connect family options include a system specially designed for secure, wireless SCADA connectivity between distributed TCP/IP-based field devices and the control center. Other Connect options support both serial and TCP/IP devices on a single terminal, giving customers the choice between integrated or separate antennas.

对于Redline的客户，在世界上最极端的气候和地形上运行SCADA网络，坚固性，安全性和灵活性与数据吞吐量一样重要。Redline Connect-OW系统符合FIPS 140-2，将军事级网络安全与AES加密和安全远程管理结合在一起。该单元本身完全坚固，包含在IP68认证的外壳中，可确保温度下的不间断操作范围为-40°C至 +75°C（-40°F至+167°F）。Connect建立在Redline的Universal Wireless Transport™平台上，可在470 MHz和5.8 GHz之间的任何无线频率上运行，从而使公司可以为任何地形，环境，距离和频谱可用性构建最佳网络。Connect’s software defined radio enables over-the-air configuration, allowing customers to remotely configure and upgrade the system from its base 2 Mbps to higher data rates, ensuring that network capacity grows as needed when more devices are added or when scan times to end devices must be increased.

“歧视是广域网的市场领导者s for the energy sector, and with the introduction of the RTG Connect family, we have extended our reach to include edge devices critical for end-to-end field automation,” added Cronin. “SCADA becomes another of many applications which can be seamlessly carried across a Redline Virtual Fiber backbone.”

RTG Connect systems availability will begin in November 2013.

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