Cisco 8. 09 Industrial Integrated Services Routers Data Sheet. Cisco 8. 09 Industrial Integrated Services Routers, referred to here as the IR8. The IR8. 09 is Ciscos smallest multimode 3. G and 4. G LTE wireless router, making it an excellent solution for distribution automation and remote asset management across multiple industrial vertical markets Figure 1. The IR8. 09 has an integrated 9. V DC power input and is designed to withstand hostile environments, including shock, vibration, dust, and humidity, and supports a wide temperature range 4. C and type tested at 8. C for 1. 6 hours. The IR8. 09 brings together    Enterprise class wireline like services, such as quality of service Qo. S   Cisco advanced virtual private network VPN technologies such as Dynamic Multipoint VPN DMVPN and Flexible VPN Flex. VPN   Multiple Virtual Routing and Forwarding VRF instances for cellular highly secure data, voice, and video communications    Cisco IOx, an open, extensible environment for hosting applications at the network edge. The IR8. 09 also extends connectivity to include low power wide area LPWA access using the Cisco Interface Module for Lo. Ra. WAN. Figure 1.       Cisco 8. Industrial Integrated Services Routers with 4. G LTE. Product Overview. The Cisco 8. 09 Industrial Integrated Services Routers support the latest Third Generation Partnership Project 3. GPP Release 9 Category 3 and Category 4 LTE standards. The routers provide persistent, reliable LTE connectivity transparent hand offs between LTE and 3. G networks. The following models are available    IR8. If theres one car that really, truly got me into cars, it has to be the Porsche 911. I have seen many very good Porsche 911s in my lifetime, but Leh Keens off. 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G connectivity to cellular networks operating in LTE 1. MHz band 2 PCS, 1. MHz band 4 AWS, 8. MHz band 5, 7. 00 MHz band 1. MHz band 2. 5 extended PCS frequencies backward compatible with UMTS and HSPA, at 8. MHz band 5, 9. 00 MHz band 8, 1. MHz band 2 PCS, and 1. MHz band 4 AWS.    IR8. G LTE VZ K9 Multimode 4. G, 3. G, and 2. G connectivity to cellular networks operating in LTE 7. MHz band 1. 3, 1. MHz band 4 AWS, and 1. MHz band 2. 5 extended PCS frequencies backward compatible with EVDO Rev ACDMA 1x BC0, BC1, and BC1. IR8. 09. G LTE LA K9 Multimode 4. G and 3. G connectivity to cellular networks operating in FDD LTE 2. MHz band 1, 1. 80. MHz band 3, 8. 50 MHz band 5, 2. TDD LTE 2. 60. 0 band 3. WCDMA 2. 10. 0 MHz band 1, 8. MHz band 5, 8. 00 MHz band 6, band 1. MHz band 8, 1. 70. MHz band 9, and TD SCDMA 1. MHz band 3. 9.    IR8. G LTE GA K9 Multimode 4. G, 3. G, and 2. G connectivity to cellular networks operating in LTE 8. MHz band 2. 0, 9. MHz band 8, 1. 80. MHz band 3, 2. 10. MHz band 1, and 2. MHz band 7 frequencies backward compatible with UMTS and HSPA at 8. MHz band 5, 9. 00 MHz band 8, 1. MHz band 2, and 2. MHz band 1. The IR8. Internet of Things Io. T, as listed in Figure 2. Figure 2.       Cisco 8. Industrial Integrated Services Routers Offer a Broad Range of Features. LTE connectivity LTE offers a cost effective alternative in areas where broadband services either are not available or are very expensive. Quality of service Qo. S Qo. S enables differentiated treatment of traffic for mission critical services and load balancing for a better user experience. Supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA applications DNP3 serialtoDNP3IP translation and IEC 6. T1. 01toIEC 6. 08. T1. 04 protocol translation serves as a SCADA gateway and Raw Socket transport for managing remote terminal units RTUs. Smart grid compliant The routers are IEEE 1. IEC 6. 18. 50 3 certified for distribution automation and secondary substation deployments. Industrial security Services include area firewall and VPN services, which require no additional hardware or client software. GPS. The routers support remote tracking asset management in a distributed network. Fog computing, management, and automation Enable remote monitoring and control at the edge and improve process efficiency by moving the intelligence to the edge rather than the cloud. Network management Tools such as Cisco Io. T Field Network Director, Cisco Prime, and Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module APIC EM simplify deployment of a secure network head end using the Cisco Industrial Operations Kit. Multiple packet data network PDN feature This feature allows the router to connect to different access point names APNs, enabling traffic segregation. For example, public Internet traffic can be kept separate from mission critical traffic emerging from the sensors and devices connected to the router. G LTE multiple bearer Qo. S for cellular The IR8. G LTE multiple bearers, enabling differentiated treatment of traffic based on the Qo. S policies. The Qo. S feature depends on a service providers ability to classify and enforce Qo. S policies and hence requires providers to launch this service in their networks. Multi VRF The IR8. VRF feature, which allows customers to configure and maintain more than one instance of a routing and forwarding table within the same customer edge CE device. For service providers, this feature enables them to support two or more VPNs, and the IP addresses can overlap several VPNs. Business Benefits and Application Examples. Industrial customers are looking for real time monitoring and control of industrial assets to help increase operation efficiency. Utilities. Utilities are seeking the capability to monitor thousands of miles of electrical or water infrastructure often located in harsh environments through 3. G and 4. G cellular networks to provide remote assets monitoring and reliable and secure SCADA traffic backhauling. Devices that enable this connectivity need to be able to be remotely monitored and configured. They also need to support traditional serial interfaces to interconnect with existing monitoring devices. Oil and Gas. Oil and gas companies need to monitor pipeline infrastructure across wide geographic areas and remote locations using 3. G and 4. G cellular networks to collect data from remote terminal units and securely transport SCADA traffic to a network operations center NOC. Transportation. Highways and transportation agencies require reliable always on communication between speed cameras, monitoring cameras, ticket terminals, etc. Wireless devices to support such continuous communication need to support 3. G and 4. G networks to help ensure good, wide coverage support continuous operation in very harsh environments be very compact for deployment in roadside cabinets and support serial interfaces to existing traditional devices. Primary Features and Benefits. Table 1 lists the features and benefits of the IR8. Table 1.        Features and Benefits of Cisco 8. Industrial Integrated Services Routers. Features. Benefits. Io. T Enablement. Compact ruggedized form factor. Designed for hostile outdoor remote assets monitoring and machine to machine M2. M communications and integrated 9. V DC power supply. Raw socket transport and SCADARaw Socket can be used to transport SCADA data from RTUs. This method is an alternative to the Block Serial Tunnel BSTUN protocol. The IR8. 09 provides DNP3 serialtoDNP3IP translation and IEC 6. T1. 01toIEC 6. 08. T1. 04 protocol translation to serve as a SCADA gateway to do the following   Receive data from RTUs T1. DNP3 serial and relay configuration commands from the control center T1. DNP3 IP SCADA applications. Matrix Management and Structure duties, benefits. Photo by kentoh. Matrix management is a technique of managing an organization or, more. In contrast to most other organizational structures, which arrange. In its. simplest form, a matrix configuration may be known as a cross functional. The term. matrix is derived from the representative diagram of a. The practice is most associated with highly collaborative and complex. Even when a company does not label. In the late 1. 80. U. S. industrial revolution. The earliest models emphasized efficiency of process. Described as mechanistic,. They sought to. create organizations that mimicked machines, and usually departmentalized. Important theories. German sociologist Max Webers 1. During the 1. 92. Inspired by the work of thinkers and. Harvard researcher Elton Mayo, who conducted the. Hawthorne Experiments. 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One benefit of product or project departmentalization is that it. In addition, accountability is increased because. Furthermore. divisional structures permit decentralized decision making, which allows. The potential drawbacks to divisional structures include. In addition, divisional organizations, like functionally. MATRIX ORGANIZATION. Matrix management structures combine functional and product. They simultaneously organize part of a company along. For example, a diagram of a matrix model might show. See. Figure 1. Along the left side of the same table would be different. Within. the matrix, each of the product groups would intersect with each of the. In other words, each team of people assigned. Theoretically, managers of project groups and managers of functional. As indicated by. the matrix, many employees report to at least two managers. For instance. a member of the accounting department might be assigned to work with the. Generally, however, managers of functional areas and. 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