M500
Advanced LTE Industrial Multi-Carrier Router
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BEC M500 Advanced LTE Industrial Multi-Carrier Router
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BEC M500 Advanced LTE Industrial Multi-Carrier Router
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BEC M500 Advanced LTE Industrial Multi-Carrier Router
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BEC M500 Advanced LTE Industrial Multi-Carrier Router
Overview
Key Features
Specifications
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Overview
The M500 Advanced LTE Industrial Multi-Carrier Router is a powerful all-in-one wireless communications solution, equipped with advanced software to deliver high availability, reliable, and secure wireless connectivity for mission-critical applications. Its compact, rugged design features dual SIM, dual radio, a 4-port Gigabit switch, Wi-Fi access point, embedded GPS with a multi-GNSS engine (supporting GPS and GLONASS), and ignition power control for seamless in-vehicle use. The M500 is purpose-built to support a broad range of applications across various machine-to-machine (M2M) market segments and industries.
Ideal applications:
- M2M/IoT
- Industrial/Manufacturing
- Transportation and Logistics
- Public Safety
- Oil & Gas
- Remote Monitoring & Control
- Mission Critical Communications
- Smart City
Key Features
- DUAL-WAN Interfaces
4G/LTE (WWAN) and Ethernet WAN (EWAN) ensuring high availability, network resilience, and automatic failover - Carrier Diversity
Dual-SIM slots with Auto-Carrier selection for high network availability - Advanced Networking
Drop into any network with support for IP Passthrough, Dynamic Routing, VPN, Load Balancing, VRRP, QoS, VLAN, and IPV6 - Wireless LAN
Hotspot/Captive Portal with Guest or Event Wi-Fi services - Active GPS
Enable real-time tracking for location-based services or export data in NMEA format - Rugged/Hardened
Industrial-grade components with extended temperature range and flexible input voltage selection - Intelligent Ignition Sensing
For In-vehicle connectivity, transport, logistics and fleet management applications
Specifications
Availability and Resilience
- Dual-WAN ports (4G LTE-A & Ethernet WAN)
- Dual SIM Interfaces
- Dual Radio Modules (Optional)
- Load balancing – Maximizing bandwidth of outbound traffic
- Automatic failover and fallback
- Virtual Routing Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
Supported Frequency Bands
- 4G/LTE (FDD/TDD) Bands: 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 20, 28, 32, 38, 40, 41
- LTE FDD (Cat. 6) Data Rate: DL up to 300Mbps & UL up to 50 Mbps
- Channel Bandwidth: 1.4MHz, 3MHz, 5MHz, 10MHz, 15MHz & 20MHz
- Maximum Output Power: 23dBm
- Carrier Aggregation: (2CA DL)
B1+B1/ B5/ B8/ B20/ B28
B3+B3/ B5/ B7/ B8/ B20/ B28
B7+B5/ B7/ B8/ B20/ B28
B20+B32, B38+B38, B40+B40, B41+B41 - LTE Antenna: 2×2 DL MIMO
Network Protocols and Features
- IPv4, IPv6, IPv4 / IPv6 dual-stack
- IP Tunnel IPv6 in IPv4 (6RD)
- IP Tunnel IPv4 in IPv6 (DS-Lite)
- NAT, static routing and RIP-1/2
- Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) compliant
- Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS)
- Virtual server and DMZ
- SNTP, DNS relay, IGMP proxy, and IGMP snooping for video service
- MLD proxy and MLD snooping for video service
- Supports port-based Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Firewall
- Built-in NAT Firewall
- Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI)
- Prevents DoS attacks including Land Attack, Ping of Death, etc.
- Access Control
- IP Filtering, MAC Filtering, URL Filtering
- Password protection for system management
- VPN Passthrough
Management
- Quick Installation Wizard
- Web-based GUI for remote and local management
- Firmware upgrade and configuration data upload and download via web-based GUI
- Supports DHCP server/client/relay
- TR-069 supports remote management
- Support SNMP
- Syslog monitoring
- Out-of-Band Management via serial console
- BECentral® Cloud-Based Remote Management
Wireless LAN
- Compliant with IEEE 802.11b/g/n standards
- Up to 300Mbps wireless operation rate
- WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) for easy setup
- 64/128 bits WEP supported for encryption
- Wireless security with WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK, Mixed WPA/WAP2-PSK
- Multiple SSID (4 SSIDs), BSSID
- Wireless MAC Filtering
- Wireless Client Isolation
- Wi-Fi Hotspot with captive portal
- RADIUS or integrated account database
- Wi-Fi Client Rate Limiting
USB Application Server
- Storage: FTP Server and Samba server
Quality of Service Control
- IEEE 802.1Q VLAN
- Outbound Load Balancing (Round Robin, Weight, or IP Hash)
Secured VPN
- IPSec VPN Tunneling (up to 8 tunnels)
- PPTP VPN Tunneling (up to 4 dial-in/dial-out tunnels)
- L2TP over IPSec VPN Tunneling (up to 4 dial-in / dial-out tunnels)
- GRE (up to 8 tunnels)
- Embedded PPTP / L2TP / IPSec Client and Server
- IKE Key Management
- MPPE Encryption for PPTP
- IPsec DES, 3DES and AES encryption
- OpenVPN: 1 server up to 4 clients
Global Navigation Satellite System(GNSS)
- Embedded multi-GNSS engine for GPS or GLONASS system
Intelligent Ignition Sensing
- For In-vehicle connectivity installations
Physical Interface
- 4G LTE: Two (2) SMA Female Connectors
- Dual Radio module: (Optional)
- Wireless: Two (2) RP-SMA Connectors
- GPS: One (1) SMA Female Connector
- WAN: 4G LTE (and/or ETH WAN
- USB 2.0 Host: Two (2) ports
- Mini-USB Console: Two (2) ports
- Ethernet LAN: 4-port 10/100/1000Mbps auto-crossover (MDI/ MDI-X) switch
- SIM Card: Two (2) slots (2FF)
- Reset Button
- Power Connector: 4-pin connectors with ignition sense
- LED Indicators: Power, Internet, LTE, Ethernet
Power Specifications
- Input: DC 10V~56V
Physical Requirements
- Dimensions: 7.5″(W) x 1.91″(H) x 5.31″(D)
(184.25mm x 48.5 mm x 135 mm) - Weight: 1.07kg (2.36lbs)
Operating Environment
- Operating temperature: -40 to 140º F (–40 to 60º C)
- Humidity: 20 ~ 95% non-condensing
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