Lantronix NTC-140-02 4G LTE M2M Router with GPS for EMEA, Australia & Singapore

The Lantronix NTC-140-02 is the EMEA, Australia and Singapore variant of the NTC-140 Series 4G M2M router, which Lantronix lists as a Last Time Buy product. It is built for harsh industrial and vehicle environments. The router has a rugged enclosure, wall and DIN rail mounting, and an 8-40V DC input. It has been tested for vehicular use to IEC Class 5M2, MIL-STD-810 method 516.5 and ISO 7637-2. LTE runs on bands 1, 3, 7, 8 and 20 at Category 3 speeds of up to 100/50 Mbps. The radio falls back to DC-HSPA+ at up to 42 Mbps and to EDGE. This SKU is certified RCM for Australia and New Zealand and approved by Telstra.

For wired connectivity, the router has two 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports with Auto MDIX, a Micro USB 2.0 OTG port for extra interfaces or storage, and a multipurpose I/O pin. You can assign any interface as the WAN, which supports failover designs. The NTC-140-02 is the only model in the series with integrated standalone GPS. It uses a dedicated SMA connector and reaches a hot time to first fix of 1 second. In vehicles, the ignition input handles graceful startup and shutdown, and a configurable sleep mode keeps current draw to a minimum.

The embedded Linux platform runs on a 720 MHz ARM Cortex A8 with 128 MB of DDR2 RAM. On the network side, it supports static and RIP routing, VRRP, Modbus TCP/RTU gateway functions and a Data Stream Manager. For VPN, it offers IPSec (up to 5 tunnels), OpenVPN, GRE and PPTP. You can manage the router through the HTTPS web UI, Telnet CLI, SNMP, TR-069 or secure SMS commands. The SDK supports C, Shell and LUA for custom applications that run on the router itself. Lantronix publishes a product brief, a quick start guide and user guides for this model.