June 21, 2011

Integral Systems, Inc., announced at the CommunicAsia 2011 exhibition and conference in Singapore, that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Newpoint Technologies, has introduced Mercury G3 Remote Site Manager. This next generation remote site manager is a cost-effective solution for managing manned and unmanned remote sites to provide complete visibility into site status by interfacing with all site equipment. Providing complete visibility into remote sites reduces or eliminates costly unscheduled visits caused by equipment failures or communications problems.

For unmanned remote sites, or sites requiring high availability, Mercury G3 is equipped with high speed, solid state hard drives in a RAID configuration, has redundant power supplies (both AC and DC) and can be equipped with its own UPS system to shut down the unit and facility in an orderly manner during a power failure. It supports both in-band and out-of-band (dial-up, GSM, Cellular or satellite modems) communications between the Operations Center and remote site, and allows for both primary and multiple backup communications to the site. Mercury G3’s modular design provides flexibility to configure the unit based upon unique interface requirements at each remote site (serial, DI/DO, Ethernet, SNMP, etc.).

"In today’s competitive landscape, network providers are under increased pressure to reduce costs and maximize resources, while at the same time increase Quality of Service (QoS) under very tight Service Level Agreements (SLA)," said Wally Martland, President of Newpoint Technologies. "Mercury G3 Remote Site Manager provides a comprehensive view of critical site equipment, giving operators the ability to recover the site without costly site visits, thereby reducing network management costs and increasing network availability."

The backbone of Mercury G3 is Newpoint Technologies’ COMPASS™ Network Management System (NMS) software, which is used to manage remote site equipment and take full advantage of COMPASS’ award winning features in a compact element management solution. COMPASS provides a local web-based GUI for technicians while on site and a graphical scripting engine that enables network operators to automate recovery tasks and other commonly performed routines, such as uplink power control and redundancy switching. 2

Martland continued, "Mercury G3 is the culmination of approximately 10 years of experience of fielding the first and second generation Mercury product at more than 1,700 unmanned remote sites. Our remote site management product line is completely software configurable and includes a high-availability option to ensure critical systems meet specified reliability requirements."

For current Mercury customers, Mercury G3 is compatible with existing cabling infrastructure and uses the same pinouts used with previous generation Mercury products, making it easy to upgrade to Mercury G3 without costly cabling changes.