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Mercury Series
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MDS Mercury™ Series
High Throughput, Standards Based Networking

The MDS Mercury Series is a highly secure, industrial-grade WiMAX communications platform for mission critical, industrial applications. The Mercury product line provides a global licensed and unlicensed solution designed to facilitate high throughput wireless networking requirements. Existing frequencies include 1800, 3650 and 5800 MHz.

The MDS Mercury Series supports Ethernet, serial, USB and WiFi connectivity, and offers extended range and aggregate throughput of up to 30 Mbps. MDS Mercury provides a scalable solution to meet your growing bandwidth needs and has the capacity, service prioritization and deployment flexibility to facilitate your immediate and long-term wireless networking requirements.

Key Benefits

Build a communications infrastructure tailored to business and geographic needs with numerous connection and packaging options

Easily manage configuration with a web-enabled computer

Secure remote and physical radio access with advanced security features including tamper alarm controls

Proactively monitor the communications network with the MDS PulseNET Network Management System

 

Ease-of-Use Network

Out-of-the-box system installation

Web-enabled configuration services

Advanced network management capability


Designed for Industrial Applications

Sub-channelization for optimization

Quality of Service (QoS) profiles

Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (Hybrid ARQ)

Time-Division Duplexing (TDD) synchronization

Subscriber RF robustness (23 or 30 dBm Tx, depending on frequency)

-40° C to +70° C operating range

CSA Class 1 / Div 2 and IEEE 1613

ETSI/CE on specific frequencies

 
Advanced Security

AES 128-bit encryption

RADIUS and 802.1x EAP/TLS authentication

VLAN tagging


System Solution Flexibility

Multiple packaging options

Multiple-In, Multiple-Out (MIMO) technology

Ethernet, serial and WiFi options

Field-ready outdoor unit with Power over Ethernet (PoE)

Uplink biasing for AMI, SCADA, and substation or distribution automation

 
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Indoor Base Station & Subscriber Unit - (IDU)
MDS Mercury Series has been specifically designed and tested to meet stringent industrial specifications and is offered in three packaging options for application flexibility and ease-of-use installation.

2 x 30 dBm (3650 & 1800), 2 x 23 dBm (5800)

2 Ethernet ports, 1 serial port, USB, GPS

IEEE 1613 compliant

CSA Class 1 / Div 2 certification

MIMO matrix A/B

-40° C to +70° C

Optional built-in WiFi (Subscriber unit only)

Indoor Subscriber Unit
The MDS Mercury Series has been specifically designed in three special packaging options for application flexibility and ease-of-use installation and have been designed and tested to meet stringent industrial specifications.

2 x 30 dBm (3650 & 1800), 2 x 23 dBm (5800)

2 Ethernet ports, 1 serial port, USB, GPS

Optional built-in WiFi (Subscriber unit only)

A/C input and 8-hour battery backup

Hardened NEMA 4X enclosure

Pole mount ready

MIMO matrix A/B

-40° C to +70° C

Physical tamper alarm

Flexible configuration

Outdoor Subscriber Unit - (ODU)
The MDS Mercury radios are equipped with an embedded spectrum analyzer to assist in deployment and troubleshooting.

2 x 23 dBm (3650), 2 x 30 dBm (1800), 2 x 18 dBm (5800)

1 Ethernet port, 1 serial port, 1 USB host

Optional built-in WiFi

Integrated antenna

Power over Ethernet (PoE)

10-60 VDC option

MIMO matrix A/B

-40° C to +70° C

IEEE 1613 compliant

The MDS Mercury Series has been specifically designed in three special packaging options for application flexibility and ease-of-use installation and have been designed and tested to meet stringent industrial specifications.
Application: Advanced Metering Infrastructure
Below is an example of a Smart Grid Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) private wireless network utilizing MDS Mercury 3650s.

Application: Oil & Gas Facilities
Below is an example of an oil well-head application utilizing Mercury Base Stations and indoor and outdoor Subscribers as a point-to-multipoint solution for SCADA and video traffic at well-head sites.

Application Example: Mining
Mining operations involve multiple rail yard loading and unloading processes. High efficiency is critical and seamless communication hand-offs between the Base Stations and Subscribers is necessary. The Mercury Series handles mobility applications and provides the necessary bandwidth for video monitoring of unloading bin sites. The WiFi option provides local WiFi coverage for workforce automation and direct connection to the fiber ring can be achieved via GE's Lentronics fiber optic multiplexers.

Application: Water & Wastewater Facilities
Below is an example of a wireless network utilizing MDS Mercury 3650s to monitor various assets and processes in a water and wastewater facility. MDS Mercury can be used to aggregate data from devices that monitor vital flow, pressure and temperature measurements, and video surveillance.
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