[SatNews] For manned and unmanned sites, this product offers a ready solution...

The Company's Mercury G3 Remote Site Manager is a next generation remote site manager that is a cost-effective solution for managing manned and unmanned remote sites. It provides complete visibility into site status by interfacing with all site equipment. reducing or eliminating costly unscheduled visits caused by equipment failures or communications problems. For unmanned remote sites, or sites requiring high availability, Mercury G3 is equipped with high speed, solid state hard drives in a RAID configuration, has redundant power supplies (both AC and DC) and can be equipped with its own UPS system to shut down the unit and facility in an orderly manner during a power failure. It supports both in-band and out-of-band (dial-up, GSM, Cellular or satellite modems) communications between the Operations Center and remote site, and allows for both primary and multiple backup communications to the site.

Mercury G3’s modular design provides flexibility to configure the unit based upon unique interface requirements at each remote site (serial, DI/DO, Ethernet, SNMP, etc.). The backbone of Mercury G3 is Newpoint Technologies’ COMPASS™ Network Management System (NMS) software, which is used to manage remote site equipment and take full advantage of COMPASS’ award winning features in a compact element management solution. COMPASS provides a local web-based GUI for technicians while on site and a graphical scripting engine that enables network operators to automate recovery tasks and other commonly performed routines, such as uplink power control and redundancy switching.