Choosing Your MultiPath IP Monitoring at CMS Central Monitoring Services introduced in 2007 a new High Security monitoring service which utilises a combination of Ethernet, GPRS and PSTN to transmit signals to special servers at CMS. It has been developed in Australia by Inner Range in the Fratech product range and is manufactured, installed and maintained at CMS in accordance with Australian Standards AS/NZS2201.5:2008. The Transmission System can be configured to a Class 3, Class 4 or Class 5 service and has multiple polled transmission paths which ensure speed of transmission of alarms and reliability of service via a high availability. To keep costs at an affordable level this system endeavours to use Ethernet as the Primary path. GPRS is costed on the amount of use and data sent. The following are the path configurations are available for this product to communicate from the Intruder Alarm System installed in the Client's Premises to the monitoring computers at CMS. Path 1: Ethernet connection using an ADSL service on the Public IP or Proprietary Ethernet service used in a Company local area network(LAN). Either connection has 128 bit AES encryption for security of the data. Path 2or 1: GPRS reporting via a Telstra National VPN as the backup path or as the primary path where Ethernet is not available. Path 3or 2: PSTN reporting via the normal Telephone Service as the third non polled path or GPRS via a Vodafone connection as the backup to the pPrimary GPRS where Ethernet is unavailable. Path 3: PSTN as the third path to two GPRS services where Ethernet is unavailable. There are two MultipathIP STU types which intelligently select the most available Path to transmit alarm information in accordance with Australian Standards AS/NZS2201.5:2008 to achieve Class 3, 4 or 5 signalling. MultiPath Ethernet IP STU or MultiPath GPRS STU. The standard selected Class 3 polling rate of one hundred and twenty (120) seconds is available with either STU as agreed with the client depending on the Risk and System Classification and the system intelligently uses the combination of the three paths to transmit alarms and system information. The Primary Ethernet system with GPRS as the Backup path is the most affordable solution with the added advantage of alternative technologies and is the preferred choice for this product. |