Products Deployed

• RADiFlow 3700 Service-Aware Industrial Ethernet switch

Customer Requirements

• Industrial Ethernet access switches connected to an IP/MPLS backbone using VLANs for service ID
• Connection of a mixture of Ethernet, serial and discrete devices used for passengers ticketing, information panels and data acquisition (signaling, energy monitoring)
• Secure access to critical services
• Ethernet switching (RSTP, VLAN, QoS, etc.), high number of ports
• Dynamic IP routing
• Optional E1/T1 user ports
• Optional Modbus firewall for secure data acquisition

Solution Benefits

• Industrial Ethernet L2 and L3 modular switch
• Interfaces include Ethernet and serial ports on the same modular chassis
• Easy to upgrade due to system modularity
• Transparent serial tunneling
• Gateway services for Modbus
• Application-aware firewall for Modbus
• Link aggregation for higher resiliency
• Secure VPN using GRE tunnel and IPsec
• Reliable system with comprehensive QoS and OAM capabilities

Solution Highlights

• Multiservice solution based on a feature-rich, modular Industrial Ethernet switch
• Easy topology upgrade – simple integration of additional devices
• Modbus gateway from RTU to TCP and application-aware firewall
• Discrete IO tunneling
• Serial tunneling for RS-232 and RS-485 generic traffic