In the oil & gas industry, outfitting fleets of communication vehicles on land, in the air and at sea means putting equipment into harsh locations -- often without a communications specialist onsite. Data Technology Solutions has found Uplogix appliances help them meet SLA's for uptime while keeping support costs low. Download the full case study. [...]
This week the analysts at Gartner released their top predictions for IT organizations and users for 2011 and beyond. The list focuses on changes in the roles that technologies and IT groups play both in the performance of the business and increasingly in the lives of workers.As an innovative company applying a new way of [...]
Uplogix recently announced interoperability of Winegard auto-acquiring antennas with the Uplogix remote management appliances. This means the appliances are able to monitor parameters on the antenna controllers and issue commands to enable, reposition, retarget, stow the antenna and more. This functionality allows operators to control remote equipment as if they were onsite. Uplogix Local Management [...]
When it comes to solving a problem, the basic recovery steps are the same, whether you have a smoke alarm chirping it's need for a new battery, or a network device in a negative state. UNKNOWN - IDENTIFICATIONOf course, if you don't know you have a problem, you aren't going to be trying to solve [...]
The Uplogix Control Center is the core of an enterprise-wide deployment of Uplogix appliances. As the point of control for all Uplogix appliances, it's web-based GUI puts IT administrators in control of real-time data to easily manage all devices connected to the appliances.As with most enterprise applications, redundancy is an important consideration and often a [...]
Traditional NOC-based network management uses SNMP polling over the network to send requests for device information. This traffic slows down both the network and the devices, so the goal is to minimize the polling by extending the time periods in between requests. Depending on importance of the site, traffic volume and other factors, the time [...]
Network automation is a broad topic, but generally it's about making your network work better (faster, more reliable, farther reaching) with less effort. There are numerous tools for streamlining processes and workflows, generating trouble tickets and tracking configurations, but there are still some tasks that are heavily dependent on human interaction. Or are they?Here is [...]
Cobham SATCOM's Sea Tel Products recently announced that they would begin reselling Uplogix products in addition to their line of industry-leading maritime VSAT antennas. With more than 20,000 antennas deployed in commercial shipping, oil & gas platforms, cruise ships and super yachts, Sea Tel has the reach to make a significant impact on the status [...]
Article 1 in the series, Uplogix Automation for Maritime VSAT Maritime VSAT has many challenges beyond the requirements for fixed-position satellite communications. One is that while a ship on the ocean might have a 360-degree view of the horizon, often the limitations of antenna placement on a vessel result in blockage zones, or places that [...]
The latest version of the Uplogix Remote Management Operating System (RMOS) is now available. A pair of Uplogix Local Managers in a lab at Uplogix headquarters in Austin. The v4.3 release has numerous new features including hardened cryptography for FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certification, IPv6 support, expanded VSAT drivers and more. FIPS 140-2 | The [...]
