French
company APLUS Système Automation, manufacturer of industrial
computers for Defence and Security applications, introduced two new
products at Euronaval 2012: The MPS1000 Multi-Protocol Communications
Server and the MPR2000 Radar/Sensor Recording, Playback System.
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The
MPS1000 is a family of WAN/LAN data communications servers that are
attached to a local area network to provide wide-area connectivity.
A single MPS1000 communications server can support a number of WAN protocols,
each of which can be accessed simultaneously by multiple clients. The
MPS1000 provides two 10/100 Ethernet ports and has options for 4, 8,
or 16 high-speed WAN serial ports. This makes the MPS1000 an ideal and
intelligent WAN/LAN bridge, a WAN/LAN gateway device, or a remote WAN
connectivity server. By using the MPS1000 as an SNMP management device,
any computer and/or workstation equipped with TCP/IP on the LAN can
access information from the communications server.
The MPS1000 is designed to preserve the user’s software investment
by enabling applications to be moved to any of PT’s WAN products.
Its modular design supports virtually any serial communications protocol. |
A critical
part of the radar/sensor network is ensuring the data, regardless of
its specific format, be properly received from remote radar and sensing
sites for processing and viewing at other locations. Additionally, it
is also highly desirable for equipment used in radar networks to provide
such features as data record, playback, protocol conversion, and time
stamping.
The MPR2000 System provides users with a solution that offers all of
these capabilities while also providing the ability to easily transport
the radar or sensor data received on the serial ports over IP networks
to one or more simultaneous end points at remote locations for further
analysis. Additionally, the MPR2000 provides the ability to add application
blades such that data analysis can be done within the MPR2000 itself.
The Data Record feature provides the ability to store received data
as raw (idles, sync, flags’ and CRC) or in payload form, time
stamps can also be included in the captured data. The capture time window
and length of time to keep the data can be easily specified by the user
through the system configuration interface.
The MPR2000 Data Playback feature allows the user to view the previously
captured data as a source for analysis or transmission to other locations.
Multiple playbacks can be simultaneously running with the playback data
for each playback request being distributed to a specified link on the
MPR2000 System and/or user application connection. The playback can
also be configured to send the file data to all destinations in real
time, slowed down, or sped up. |
