The need for high-speed internet access has led to multiple innovations and improvements in current technologies. One of the most significant advancements is the adoption of Broadband over Powerlines (BPL), a Power Line Communication (PLC) technology that relies on the ubiquity of existing electrical wiring in buildings to transmit data over medium voltage power lines.
However, like any other network technology, BPL also requires monitoring and management to ensure optimal performance and availability.
SGRwin For Broadband Over Powerlines Monitoring and Management
Solving Your BPL Management Challenges
Discover Our Targeted Features for Improved Efficiency
Cluster-Based Device Mapping: Visualize Your BPL Devices with SGRwin
SGRwin comes with a very rich and flexible visualization module. The module is in its Cluster feature and allows users to visually represent the BPL devices on their network and how they are connected. SGRwin accesses each wave carrier’s MAC address from the network’s Management Information Base (MIB) and uses them to draw the BPL networks. The MIB is a standard table defined in our solution and used to represent the device’s attributes and status.
Device Viewer: Full Visibility of your BPL Devices
Provides a detailed view of your network elements; including structure, properties, real-time alarms, statistics, attached files or pics, actions etc.
Advanced Statistics
BPL communication signals are transmitted via the power transmission lines that make up the electrical utility network, meaning they have limited bandwidth.
Therefore, statistics are of utmost importance to BPL network operators since the data sent over these networks is highly susceptible to interference and loss. The network operators require accurate data of the network. Crucial data includes speed level, gains, and signal qualities. SGRwin was designed with this requirement in mind. The system can collect data from the network, analyse it, and give reports on overall performance. Operators can then use the highly advanced statistics to optimise the network.
Monitoring Profile
In SGRwin, the monitoring profile describes the frequency of asking the devices about their status, configuration, and statistics. The monitoring profile is a crucial feature of the system that should be regulated to ensure that it is not too frequent. Saturating the device with questions will overload the network and the device.
The user can customise the frequency to meet specific requirements. Different monitoring profile modes include:
- Real-time mode This is a demanding mode that allows you to frequently ask the device about its status, performance, and statistics.
- Maintenance mode This mode minimizes the frequency of the monitoring requests to the device and allows the user to perform maintenance operations. With this mode set, the user can only request the equipment’s details once a day or according to another frequency.
In addition, BPL networks are usually an intricate connection of numerous devices. Configuring the question frequency device per device is a tedious and inefficient task. SGRwin has a feature that supports bulk monitoring profile creation.
Security
At SGRwin, your network’s security is our top priority! That is why we designed our system to enable active directory accounts (for example, LDAP) to authenticate users’ accesses. We understand that modern networks commonly have internal and third-party collaborators whose access to the network must be controlled.
