Dulles,
VA January 14, 2008 –Encore Networks today
announced that Mobil Satellite Technologies
has selected Encore’s BANDIT™ line of environmentally
hardened VPN routers for their satellite
network solutions aimed at the public utilities
market. MobilSat selected the BANDIT™ to
provide the seamless migration of serial
SCADA functions over legacy networks to
secure, encrypted, satellite IP networks.
Since 1997 MobilSat has been providing
satellite connectivity for fixed and
mobile command centers, emergency management
response, homeland security, network
restoration and failover support, and
construction sites requiring rugged network
equipment.
“With MobilSat’s experience and understanding
of the challenges providing satellite-based
communications to remote areas, defining
and delivering bundled broadband VPN
solutions to utilities is a perfect niche
for them,” stated Matthew Girard, Encore’s
Director of Satellite Market Development.
“By adding the hardened BANDIT to their
VSAT product portfolio, MobilSat provides
the solutions utilities need to respond
to the stringent government mandated
NERC requirements designed to improve
the security of SCADA control and monitoring
functions.”
“We are pleased with the versatility
and ruggedness of the BANDIT,” said Bud
Burton, MobilSat’s CEO. “It is ideally
suited to meet the high performance satellite
network demands in applications with
little environmental controls commonly
found in the utility space.”
The BANDIT™ family of IP+Legacy routers
is available in both commercial grade
and industrially hardened versions designed
for use in water/waste operations, power
distribution substations, oil and gas
refineries and industrial plant floors.
The BANDIT™ is a fully featured integrated
router complete with firewall, terminal
server, serial-to-IP conversion, legacy-to-IP
conversion and VPN functionalities. Its
EVDO capabilities can be utilized in
either the primary or failover network
port. The seamless cellular failover
feature is ideally suited for Disaster
Recovery applicationss |
