Case study · Telecom
Managing remote tower sites with Instaroute
Remote monitoring and management of unmanned telecom tower sites, with a path in when the primary link fails.
The challenge
Tower sites are unmanned and spread across large areas. Power systems, batteries, diesel generators and access alarms all need watching, and a site visit is expensive.
When the main link to a site fails, the operations team needs another way in to see what happened and fix it.
How Nexapp solved it
Cellular links that stay up
Instaroute 4G and 5G routers with dual-SIM failover between two operators, and outdoor IP65 units that mount where the signal is best.
Speaks the site's protocols
RS232/RS485 serial ports, a Modbus RTU/ASCII/TCP gateway, DNP3, IEC 60870-5-101/104 and MQTT, so existing controllers and meters connect without replacement.
A second way in
The router gives the NOC an independent cellular path to site equipment, so a failed primary link can be diagnosed remotely.
One console for every site
Instaroute SDWAN Lite 2.0 shows the health, signal and data usage of every router, with zero-touch set-up and canary firmware rollout, wave by wave.
What changed
- Site alarms and power data reach the NOC over a managed link.
- Many faults are diagnosed without a site visit.
- Firmware and configuration are managed centrally for every site.
Planning something similar?
A Nexapp engineer can walk you through this deployment and map it to your own sites, links and devices.
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