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Energy & Natural Resources
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Energy and mining companies that own and operate critical infrastructure often do so in some of the most remote areas of the world and in the harshest climates. From oil, mineral and ore extraction facilities to refineries to gas processing plants, a highly available, highly reliable infrastructure that is able to link together these often remote facilities is key to the operation and success of the business. By their very nature, energy and mining companies cannot rely on “vanilla” public communications services and infrastructures to provide them reliable and accessible networking connectivity. Moreover, with the increased need to support new types of IP Networking infrastructures across these plants – from basic IT connectivity across the locations to more advanced applications such as remote video surveillance and plant monitoring – means the requirement for increased bandwidth and throughput on the transmissions systems has increased exponentially over the past years.
Fast, reliable and long distance wireless backhaul is therefore one of the most essential applications in the energy industry, capable of high, bi-directional throughputs across long distances and difficult environments. In many cases, laying fiber or copper is not either economically or physically viable, and so the deployment of a broadband wireless infrastructure is the obvious option to provide energy companies with a reliable networking and backhaul infrastructure.
InfiNet Wireless has pioneered wireless backhaul technology over the last 10 years ago, with deployments through some of the harshest climates in Russia, Northern and Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and today InfiNet Wireless counts many of the world’s leading energy and mining companies in its list of customers. Oil and gas major players such as Aramco, Yukos, Gazprom, and SurgutNefteGas have all relied heavily on our solutions as an integral part of their corporate networks. Robustness, reliability, high throughputs and reliable long distance transmission are among many reasons why many of these customers around the world have chosen InfiNet Wireless as their vendor of choice.
All of Infinet Wireless solutions come with a number of powerful features that significantly enhance performance and reliability, such as unconditional media-applications traffic (VoIP, video, etc), prioritization of data types, flexible Quality-of-Service manager, etc.
Why are InfiNet Wireless solutions the best choice for Energy applications?
High Capacity
Both our base stations and subscriber units are capable of handling many video streams. Our base stations, for example, provide high sector capacity which is field-upgradeable from 80 to 240 Mbps and uses the same or less amount of valuable radio spectrum than traditional point-to-multipoint wireless systems, whereas our CPEs are able to cater for bandwidth requirements between 8 and 50 Mbps net capacity.
Longer Distances
Built-in amplifiers and sophisticated radio design, along with many built-in remote monitoring and support tools, make InfiNet Wireless solutions an ideal choice for backhauling data from distant sites and linking remote facilities to a corporate network. With capacities up to 240 Mbps and distance spans in excess of 70km, InfiNet’s products minimize the capital expenditure needed to cover long distances across difficult terrains.
Unsurpassed Robustness and Reliability
Reliability and robustness have always been two of the most critical requirements for any outdoor wireless deployment. InfiNet’s solutions have been deployed in their tens of thousands in all parts of the world and in the most extreme environmental conditions, from the plains of Siberia, the dunes of the Sahara to the humidity of the Equator. A unique dust and moisture protection system, a built-in lightning protection and ultra-safe sealing for our outdoor units all go a long way to ensure uninterrupted operation of our radio units.
Full Support of Real-time Applications
The availability of a high capacity radio link is only half the story. Our systems also ensure the transmission of high-quality video and voice streams in real-time mode by allowing the operator to set priorities over other types of traffic to ensure lowest latency and smooth display of video signals. In effect, one can prioritise bandwidth for different types of traffic so that low priority traffic won’t get in the way of mission-critical information.
Security
Right from its inception in 1993, Infinet Wireless has always ensured that security concerns are built right into the heart of its products and solutions, thus protecting business critical information while continuing to allow a flexible access of the available resources. Network security has been integrated into the fabric of all our products, helping to provide users with information privacy, protect against threats, and control access to corporate resources. Our solutions provide the best-in-class set of security features, including highly reliable 128 bit over-the-air encryption, built-in IP Firewall, tunneling and network intrusion protection.
