Automatic Protection Switching (APS)

Features and Highlights

• Fail-Safe. Never becomes a point of failure. Automatically reverts to and reconnects the “primary network” / even in a power down condition.
• End-to-End network Link monitoring
• Number of Ethernet Interfaces: 3
• 1 x 10/100 Ethernet Interface: Network A (Primary)
• 1 x 10/100 Ethernet Interface: Network B (Standby)
• 1 x 10/100 Ethernet Interface User (Protected)
• User configurable link test parameters.
• User configurable switching parameters.
• Real-time logging maintains a history of all events.
• Serial Management Interface (USB) for local access.
• Remote access over TCP-IP networks. Allows the user to access and carry out maintenance, or / and switch the links remotely, if required
• Password Controlled Access. Maintains complete log of all logins.
• Script Assisted Switching. Automatically initiates switching upon the receipt of the scripted message / SNMP Trap.
• Switching initiated through external triggers such as “Dry Contact Alarm Relays”.
• Manual Switching through front-panel buttons with automatic front panel locking to prevent accidental switching
• The data connection through the Safecomm-E-FE between the local area network and the WAN is completely transparent. The Safecomm-E-FE is a simple failover switch and does not provide any data routing between its data ingress and data egress ports.

Applications:

• Enhances network availability and reliability.
• Eliminates network downtime by automatically / seamlessly
• Switch to the "backup” / “standby" network in the event of total failure of the primary/ active IP network.
• Disaster Recovery. To provide automatic failover protection in mission critical applications.
• To switch between and automatically re-route IP traffic to the “standby” network upon the failure of the “primary” transmission network.
• VCL-SafeComm-E-FE may be used to provide automatic fail-over protection and switching across diverse IP domains such as fiber-radio; or fiber-satellite; or fiber-PSDN (public switched data network).
• Automatic Link Test Feature. Concurrently tests both “active” and “standby” IP links, for “end-to-end” network availability.
• Alerts the user upon the failure of any one of the two “active”/ “primary”, or "secondary” / “standby" IP transmission network.

VCL-SafeComm-E-FE providing 1+1 Network Protection

• Provides 1+1 Network / Link Protection
• Failsafe: Never becomes a point of failure. Automatically reverts to the primary link even in power down condition.
• Fast automatic network switching upon network failure. Eliminates Network Downtime.
• Completely eliminates re-routing of Ethernet cables. Ethernet cables are automatically moved to the available network port.
• Essential for any application that requires 1+1 Network / Link / Path redundancy including small / medium office establishments, PoS (point-of-sale) equipment, banking establishments, hotels, ATMs, smaller Industrial Installations etc., requiring minimum service interruption due to network outage.
• Disaster Recovery.