WCA May 2013

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Gateway Bridge from BigStockPhoto.com Photographer: Mouskie

Lighting up the Gateway ❍ The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane, upgrade is the largest bridge and road project in Queensland’s history

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 : www.moxa.com

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.

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

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 : www.nec.com 7,800km submarine cable Express

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Wire & Cable AsiA – May/June 2013