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The NetGuardian can also serve as a LAN/serial bridge.

Bridging

The NetGuardian also serves well in complex networks, where different transports are available at different sites.

A client had a LAN connection available between his T/Mon master and most of his NetGuardian RTUs. But there were also segments of his network where only serial connections were available.

In the illustration shown of this client's application, one NetGuardian is configured as a bridge to sites with serial transport. NetGuardians at remote sites are linked via serial connection to the bridge

NetGuardian's serial ports. The bridge NetGuardian collects alarms from the serial RTUs and reports via LAN to T/Mon NOC and/or an SNMP manager.

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