Small & Tough AMG Systems introduces robust Mini media converter for security and transport applications
AMG Systems has launched a Mini media converter specially designed to be robust enough to withstand the challenging extremes of temperature which can face security and transport camera and device installations.
The ruggedised 9HMEC Mini media converters are small enough to be installed in the confined spaces provided by camera poles and street cabinets, and tough enough to operate in temperatures ranging from -40 to 70 degrees Centigrade. The converters provide a 100Mbps or Gigabit Ethernet uplink across fibre via the SFP port, providing a hardened, cost-effective means of converting IP signals for transport over long distances across all types of fibre cabling.
AMG'sSales and Technical Support Manager Ian Creary says the new Mini media converters have been designed specifically for security and transport applications across a wide range of challenging environments.
“When a CCTV system is used for security applications, it’s vital that the video signal delivery is maintained, no matter what the external environment is throwing at it,” he says. “It’s the same for transport applications, which use monitoring cameras and critical signage. This Mini media converter will sit in the box where it’s installed and it will just work. That’s the key. It’s about reliability and consistent performance, whether that’s in remote, challenging environments like the Middle East or India, or even in the UK at the height of summer – a camera pole or a street cabinet box will heat up quite significantly, even in our meagre summers.”
The Mini media converters are DIN rail-mountable, meaning they are quick to install and easy to remove for maintenance purposes, and because they are non-programmable there is no need for any user configuration or computer-based set-up.
The converters offer an optional Link Fault Forwarding (LFF) feature, which allows a pair of media converters to share their link status, Ian Creary explains.
“Any associated subsequent copper or fibre link failure will result in both linked media converters disabling their copper links,” he says, “ensuring that attached networking devices recognise the Link Fail status and thus do not forward data into what would otherwise be a data cul-de-sac. The result is an extra layer of safety for additional network peace of mind.”
About AMG Systems
AMG is a UK manufacturer and leading global provider of environmentally robust fibre, analogue, IP/Ethernet, wireless and hybrid communication transmission solutions. Whether it's designing and building a bespoke transmission system for a highly specialist application or manufacturing a complete range of ruggedised and hardened industrial Ethernet switches for the CCTV industry, understanding how to make things better is the focus of our thinking. Many of the innovations we have created as a result of solving some of the most intractable problems have led to new features and performance improvements in standard products for other markets. It is the need to find solutions to these real-life situations which drives our quest for innovation. www.amgsystems.com