GE MDS Orbit Platform

The GE MDS Orbit industrial wireless router platform is designed to offer the security, reliability, performance and wireless flexibility required for next-generation industrial networks. It enables users to deploy advanced communications using diverse options of wired and wireless technologies including Ethernet, Serial, USB, 2G/3G/4G, Wi-Fi, licensed and unlicensed radio.

Point-to-point, multipoint, store and forward, and self-healing topologies allow for flexible deployment architectures with the option of redundancy. Licensed and unlicensed radio links are possible up to distances of 40 km to create a large distributed network. The platform has been used in distributed processes like oil and gas, electricity, water and wastewater utilities, heavy industrial and mobile vehicles.

With advanced cybersecurity capabilities including secure boot, advanced firewall and FIPS 140-2 certified, it is able to secure and protect networks and assets. Features include: industrially hardened with an operating temperature range of -40 to +70°C, enhanced ESD protection and Class 1/Div 2 & IEEE 1613 compliance in a die-cast aluminium enclosure.