Racom MIDGE 3 - Industrial LTE 4G Router

LTE Cat 4, 4xGbE, 1xSFP, 1xRS232/485, 3xDI/O, IEC 61850-3

MIDGE 3 is Racoms latest industrial grade cellular router, designed for demanding and mission-critical SCADA and telemetry applications in sectors such as power and water utilities, oil & gas distribution and similar.

As such it offers a wide range of features for connectivity, protocol support, routing, troubleshooting, security and management in combination with a highly robust hardware design certified for use in electrical substations (IEC 61850-3). 

For users of Racom RipEX 2 radios, the MIDGE 3 also offers a fully compatible feature set to allow for hybrid networks, as it is based on the same software platform.  

KEY FEATURES

Interfaces

• Standard
• 4 x Gigabit Ethernet ports
• 1 x RS232/485 serial port (3 ports total with hardware expantion option)
• 1 x SFP
• 1 x USB 3.0, Host A
• 2 x Digital Inputs, 2 x Digital outputs, 1 x DI/O
• 10 to 50 VDC power supply
• 2 x SMA-Female antenna connectors (MIMO/Receive diversity)

• Optional expansions (mPCIe)
• Option C: 2 x RS232 (also adds 2 x DI + 2 x DO)
• Option W: Secondar cellular module (4G LTE Cat 4, global band support)
• Option G: GPS (GNSS)  

Serial ports & Protocol Support

• Supports up to 3* RS232/485 serial ports (+2 ports with COM hardware expansion)
• Supports 5 terminal servers
• Supports a wide range of serial protocols, including;
  • Modbus, IEC101, DNP3, Comli, DF1
  • Siemens 3964(R), SAIA S-Bus, MARS-A, RDS
  • UNI, Async Link

Reliability

• Hardware
• 3 years warranty, >900000h MTBF
• -40°C to +70°C operational temperature
• Approved for Power substations IEC 61850-3

• Connectivity
• Automatic connection recovery
• Fallback management with WAN-profiles for APNs and Dual-SIM
• ICMP type connection supervision
• World-wide LTE Band support

Security

• Digitally signed FW, Secure boot & secured FW upgrade
• Enable/Disable physical ports
• Digital Input for connecting to cabinet door
• Fully featured Linux SPI firewall
• IPSec & OpenVPN
• HTTPS (SSL x.509), SSH, Logical Port Disable, SNMP v3
• Role based access (4 lvl), Password management (lockout, configurable comlexity)
• RADIUS
• Continuous improvement, no backdoor