April, 13, 2010 – Quatech announced Airborne Industrial 802.11 b/g Serial Device Servers and Ethernet Adapters. The industrial units provide WPA2-Enterprise Class Extensible Authentication Protocols (EAP) with support for authentication Certificates. The Wireless Industrial Serial Device Server and Industrial Ethernet-to-Wireless adapters are designed to meet extended operating temperature range (-40°C to +85°C). The family's industrial grade design gives Airborne the reliability and performance demanded in industrial applications.
The unit includes a wide range power supply (5-36 VDC) with terminal block and barrel jack connections packaged in a ruggedized metal enclosure. Advanced security including WEP, WPA (TKIP), WPA2 (AES – FIPS 197), WPA2 Enterprise, 802.11i and 802.1x (EAP) are standard over the entire product family. The units include support for EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, PEAP, EAP-FAST and LEAP with AES-CCMP supported in the hardware.
Quatech’s Industrial and Enterprise-Class wireless products are also compliant with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) enabling their use in applications that require financial transaction data to be protected. In addition to expanded industrial features, the Quatech Airborne Industrial Wireless Device Servers offer an integrated remote web browser based configuration and administration interface to provide a straightforward user friendly installation and setup of the server. The Airborne Industrial Wireless Device Server family all include a 10/100 Ethernet port with up to two additional serial ports. The serial interfaces provide compatibility with RS232/422/485 standards and allow simultaneous use of all the ports in any configuration.
The Airborne adapters have the most flexible port configuration options of any device in the market.
