What is the difference between industrial router and DTU

What is the difference between industrial router and DTU 

　　Industrial wireless router and industrial DTU are both to achieve wireless network data transmission function, but in fact, the difference between the two is still very big, the router is connected to the Internet in the various local area networks, wide area networks of communication equipment; and DTU is a digital transmission terminal equipment, both are wireless communication equipment, but each has its own "function". Today we will mainly talk about the differences between the two in terms of appearance interface, usage and application environment.

　　The difference between industrial wireless router and DTU.

　　1, the shape and port is not the same.

　　Industrial wireless routers provide a variety of network interfaces in terms of data access.

　　DTU generally provides serial port access.

　　2, the use of different ways.

　　Industrial wireless routers can convert standard Ethernet and industrial Ethernet protocols, wireless and wired interfaces or Ethernet and fieldbus communication protocols. It only needs the IP address of the terminal network port as the gateway. The terminal device must use the specified IP address or the address in the specified IP address segment to exchange data with the server host of the specified IP address or the server host in the IP address segment, and all other addresses that are not set cannot communicate with each other.

　　DTU is used for dial-up, not for the real sense of the gateway, such as serial interface DTU in the terminal equipment to complete the dial-up, as a new network device of the terminal equipment, the terminal equipment address will use the new network equipment bound address; 

　　3, the application is different.

Applications of industrial routers.

Industrial router can support APN/VPDN private network, on the basis of private network and then add a layer of encryption mode transmission, more suitable for applications in traffic monitoring, security monitoring, financial self-service terminals networking, street lighting monitoring, power monitoring and other occasions that require huge amounts of data transmission in real time.

Application of DTU.

DTU is suitable for application in the field terminal transmission distance dispersion, appropriate data communication rate occasions, in general, the real-time DTU, can meet the requirements of most industry applications. However, it may not be suitable for some specific applications where the average delay of about 1-2 seconds cannot be tolerated.

　　4G industrial router is a kind of device that uses public wireless network to provide users with wireless data transmission function. In the era when network information is so developed, 4G industrial router has been widely used in the M2M industry in the IoT industry chain, and its use in industry has been popularized

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