Field Area Network

Running multiple applications across a wide geographic area?

Gain visibility and control over all of your Distribution Automation, AMI and DER equipment with a high-capacity Field Area Network using MimoLink™ radios.

Designed to support your SCADA needs today and your future grid modernization goals, our FAN will help you to optimize your investment in narrowband spectrum.

Advanced radio technologies such as MIMO, full-duplex communications and 256QAM modulation offer high data throughput to allow you to run more applications simultaneously and support tens of thousands of grid devices.

Key US utilities have kicked off their multi-year deployments of FANs – learn some of their top tips about rolling out a utility Field Area Network 

Field Area Network (FAN) Resources

Field Area Network (FAN) Resources

  • Smart network design for saturation coverage and mitigation of interference
  • Multi-tier solution combines higher functionality, higher capacity radios at the centre of the network with lower cost, lower capacity radios at network endpoints
  • Run multiple applications simultaneously in 50kHz channels with full duplex aggregate rates of up to 1280kbps or 3.84 Mbps at a 3 sector base site
  • Achieve near-real time visibility with ultra-low latency of 25-35 milliseconds in a 50kHz channel in a multi-point environment

“We piloted a few different systems but the choice to select MimoLink™ radios was based on a few factors. The extreme receiver sensitivities, which allows for data recovery in noisy environments via MIMO, the ability of the radio to seamlessly pass our underlay traffic and the availability to support a direct IO for future use cases. We needed radios that offered relatively low latency, high resiliency and could withstand harsh environments.”

Nathan Sutfin | Network Manager - Talquin Electric Cooperative

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