Industrial 5G and 4G Cellular Routers for Edge Deployments

Antaira Technologies has launched the AIROLINX-5G-IO-T and AIROLINX-LTE-IO-T industrial cellular routers. These hardware platforms are engineered to provide high-bandwidth connectivity and automatic WAN failover for data-intensive edge deployments and industrial automation networks, ensuring continuous uptime when primary communication links fail.

5G Connectivity and Network Redundancy
The AIROLINX-5G-IO-T utilizes a global Telit 5G modem combined with dual-SIM and eSIM capabilities to maximize network availability and allow seamless carrier switching. The hardware architecture incorporates five Gigabit Ethernet ports and dual-band Wi-Fi to establish a multi-layered local connectivity network. To maintain continuous data flow, the system is designed with an automatic WAN failover mechanism that reroutes traffic without manual intervention. Furthermore, the platform maintains backward compatibility with 4G networks to support existing infrastructure while facilitating future network expansion.

4G LTE Protocol Integration and I/O Control
The AIROLINX-LTE-IO-T platform extends beyond cellular routing by integrating Wi-Fi, wired Ethernet, and GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) positioning for asset tracking and location-aware applications. The unit features built-in digital and analog I/O ports, enabling operators to execute direct equipment control and event-driven automation directly at the network edge. The router is embedded with an extensive industrial protocol stack—featuring native support for Modbus, SNMP, TR-069, NTRIP, and MQTT—allowing it to interface systematically with a wide spectrum of factory floor and field devices. Additionally, multiple simultaneous VPN configurations provide secure data transmission across all active communication links.

Additional Context: This section details technical specifications not included in the original announcement
In industrial networking, Wide Area Network (WAN) failover is a critical redundancy protocol used to prevent costly production downtime. An automatic failover system actively monitors the primary connection (such as a fiber or copper Ethernet link) via heartbeat packets or ICMP pings. If the primary connection drops or experiences severe latency, the router's firmware instantaneously reroutes traffic to a secondary connection, which in this case is a high-speed cellular network (5G or 4G LTE). To facilitate interoperability on the factory floor, these routers support MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport), a lightweight publish-subscribe messaging protocol. MQTT is specifically designed for constrained devices and low-bandwidth, high-latency, or unreliable networks, making it the standard for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) telemetry data aggregation.

Edited by Lekshman Ramdas, Induportals editor – adapted by AI.

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