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The Most Cost Effective Ethernet.
PlantMESH implementation costs as well as the total cost of ownership are dramatically lower than industrial wired alternatives. In the typical manufacturing plant environment, wired networks cost between $500 and $2,500 per connected device to install. In addition, they have long installation times; don’t offer complete plant coverage; are difficult to expand; hard to troubleshoot; have single points of failure; and have no way to support mobile vehicles like forklifts.
By comparison, PlantMESH installations average $50 to $350 per connected Ethernet device in a whole plant scenario.
The PlantMESH™ solution has four modules
MeshCORE™ is the starting point for the system; it serves as the supervisory controller and is also an access point, providing wireless client connectivity up to 1,500 feet via standard 802.11 b, g and n, with a dedicated 5.8 gigahertz (GHz) backhaul for transporting traffic between other PlantMESH modules;
MeshStation™ modules provide the ability to extend the network up to 1,500 feet, include the dedicated 5.8Ghz backhaul, and two can be connected via an Ethernet cable to continue operation through barriers;
MeshLINK™ modules extend the network to remote facilities, providing a point-to-point high bandwidth link of up to four miles between MeshLINK units;
MeshNODE™ modules provide the ability to connect any standard wired Ethernet device to a PlantMESH network, and can be utilized to remove dead spots and to provide virtual local area network (VLAN) termination;
High Performance on a Mesh Network? You bet.
Mesh networks are based on architectures that have been developed and proven over the last four decades, but until the release of PlantMESH they haven't been able to deliver the performance and scalability needed to augment and even replace wired industrial Ethernet networks. Standard Point-to-Point industrial wireless network implementations still require Ethernet cabling, and because they are one-to-one connections, any node problem can take the entire network down.
By contrast, the PlantMESH design provides intelligent and automatic optimization that senses failures and automatically reassigns network routes, thus making the network self-healing and highly robust.