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8 Wire & Cable AsiA – May/June 2013
MOXA’s iologik E1212 Ethernet
remote i/O is being used for the
upgrade project of Brisbane’s Gateway
Bridge in Australia.
the $1.88 billion upgrade is the
largest bridge and road project in
Queensland’s history, comprising the
refurbishment of the existing
Gateway Bridge, along with the
construction of a second Gateway
Bridge.
the city agency overseeing the bridge
chose an Ethernet-based architecture
for the bridge’s lighting control
system.
the total length of the bridge is 1.2
miles, it stands 250 feet off the
ground, and its height is equivalent to
a 20-storey building. the lighting
system uses 2,500 customised lED
strips – 90,000 individual lEDs – and
over 45,000 metres of cable.
With Moxa’s V462 embedded
computer and iologik E1212 Ethernet
remote i/O server, network managers
are able to manage the bridge’s
complex lighting system with local
control capability and an attractive
cost-to-performance ratio.
Moxa’s iologik E1212 Ethernet
remote i/O unit has a two-port
embedded Ethernet switch with 8 Dis
and 8 DiOs in a compact package.
Moxa Asia Pacific – Taiwan
Website :
Lighting up the Gateway❍ The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane, upgrade is the largest bridge and road project in Queensland’s history
NEC Corporation and Fujitsu limited have completed construction of all
initially planned segments of the Asia submarine-cable Express (AsE)
system, a high-bandwidth optical submarine cable system that extends
approximately 7,800km to link Japan with the Philippines, Hong Kong,
Malaysia and singapore.
Ntt Communications, Philippine long Distance telephone Company,
telekom Malaysia Berhad and starHub limited placed an order for the new
system in January 2011.
the connection of Hong Kong to the system, in addition to Japan, the
Philippines, singapore and Malaysia, for which construction was completed
last August and service has already begun, means that AsE now connects
major cities in east and south-east Asia with a high-capacity (40Gbps per
wave, maximum capacity 15tbps) submarine cable system.
NEC – Japan Website:
7,800km submarine cable Express
news
Gateway Bridge from BigStockPhoto.com Photographer: Mouskie