Industrial application hosting platform

Siemens has expand­ed the Rugged­com Mul­ti-Ser­vice Plat­form prod­uct fam­i­ly of util­i­ty-grade com­mu­ni­ca­tion devices by intro­duc­ing a new, more pow­er­ful ver­sion of the Rugged­com APE (Appli­ca­tion Pro­cess­ing Engine) – an indus­tri­al appli­ca­tion host­ing plat­form designed for run­ning third par­ty soft­ware appli­ca­tions in harsh, mis­sion-crit­i­cal environments.

The Rugged­com APE1808 is a mem­ber of the Rugged­com RX15xx prod­uct fam­i­ly of cost-effi­cient, util­i­ty-grade Lay­er 2 and Lay­er 3 switch­es and routers. This mod­u­lar and field replace­able plat­form allows cus­tomers to select amongst WAN, ser­i­al and Eth­er­net options. It is ide­al­ly suit­ed for elec­tric pow­er util­i­ties, rail and traf­fic con­trol sys­tems. Lever­ag­ing the built-in switch­ing and rout­ing capa­bil­i­ties of the Rugged­com RX1500 Mul­ti-Ser­vice Plat­form, the Rugged­com APE1808 is a mod­ule that plugs direct­ly into any mem­ber of that fam­i­ly. Rugged­com APE1808 pro­vides one Giga­bit Eth­er­net link on the front of the RX1500, and anoth­er equal, but com­plete­ly sep­a­rat­ed link to the back­plane of the RX1500 chassis.

Rugged­com APE is avail­able with option­al con­for­mal coat­ing and is qual­i­fied for oper­at­ing ambi­ent tem­per­a­tures of ‑40 to +75 degrees Cel­sius. It meets all the elec­tri­cal spec­i­fi­ca­tions of the Rugged­com RX15xx plat­form, name­ly IEC61850‑3 and IEEE 1613 for oper­a­tion under some of the harsh­est indus­tri­al con­di­tions. Based on Intel quad core, x86_64 archi­tec­ture with sup­port for Lin­ux and Win­dows 10, the Rugged­com APE1808 pro­vides a stan­dards-based plat­form for com­mer­cial­ly avail­able soft­ware, enabling part­ner­ships with indus­try lead­ers in cyber threat detec­tion and prevention.

The new Rugged­com APE1808 excels in a range of appli­ca­tions such as fire­walls, net­work log and load proces­sors, and intru­sion sen­sors. It can ana­lyze data at the source and with­out adding the com­pli­ca­tions of installing an exter­nal indus­tri­al PC. The Rugged­com APE1808 and the cyber­se­cu­ri­ty solu­tions are devel­oped for Elec­tric Pow­er, Trans­porta­tion and Oil&Gas indus­tries, but can also be used in any harsh indus­tri­al envi­ron­ment to pro­tect the net­works against a grow­ing num­ber of cyberattacks.

The Rugged­com cyber­se­cu­ri­ty solu­tions port­fo­lio pro­vides access to a vari­ety of advanced cyber­se­cu­ri­ty appli­ca­tions devel­oped by indus­try lead­ers through a new­ly announced part­ner­ship with com­pa­nies such as Fortinet, Nozo­mi Net­works, Secure-NOK or Claroty. Siemens cus­tomers will ben­e­fit from these com­pa­nies’ exper­tise in secur­ing indus­tri­al net­works against con­stant­ly evolv­ing threats. The fol­low­ing solu­tions will be pro­vid­ed on the Rugged­com Mul­ti-Ser­vice Plat­form with cer­ti­fied part­ner appli­ca­tions from Fortinet, Nozo­mi Net­works, Secure-NOK or Claroty: Intru­sion Detec­tion Sys­tem (IDS), Intru­sion Pre­ven­tion Sys­tem (IPS), Deep Pack­et Inspec­tion (DPI), Next Gen­er­a­tion Fire­wall (NGFW).

Rugged­com APE1808 is the key prod­uct in the grow­ing Siemens cyber­se­cu­ri­ty solu­tions and ser­vice port­fo­lio, which includes com­pre­hen­sive net­work con­sult­ing ser­vices, secu­ri­ty assess­ments, inte­gra­tion, deploy­ment, train­ing and on-site support.