Advantech 2 Port Industrial Router and IoT Gateway: 2x Fast Ethernet Ports, 1x USB, and Metal Chassis

ICR-2701 is the enhanced successor of Advantech´s LAN router platform v2, originally introduced in 2010. Designed for industrial use keeping the same dimensions, configuration possibilities, and full operating system compatibility with Advantech cellular routers including support of Advantech software platforms, WebAccess/VPN and WebAccess/DMP. 

ICR-2701 offers a more powerful CPU and ample data storage to ensure a long lifecycle (software updates) with broad software customisation options for users. The router also has a TPM 2.0 chip (Trusted Platform Module) onboard verifying router integrity to provide a trusted solution as a response to increasing cybersecurity demands in many industrial and public sectors.  The ICR-2701 comes with 2x Ethernet 10/100 ports 2x independent LANs/IP addresses and 1 × USB 2.0 host port. Optional built-in WiFi 802.11 ac,a,b,g,n with AP, Client and Multirole modes are available. The router is powered by the well-known Linux-based Advantech operating system ICR-OS.

A secure web interface allows users to configure and manage ICR-2701 remotely, the ICR-2701 supports real-time data encryption and the establishing of VPN tunnels using IPsec, WireGuard, OpenVPN, GRE, etc. It supports standard and advanced networking features like DHCP, NAT, NAT-T, DynDNS, NTP, VRRP, and numerous other functions.

The 1.3 GB eMMC available storage for customers with an open Linux platform and the wide possibility of programming customer SW applications in Python and C/C++ ICR-2701 offers a real open development platform for Industrial IoT applications. Advantech's existing Router App library (User modules) with apps already developed to enhance specific router functionalities includes industrial protocol conversions, dynamic protocols, and support of IoT platforms such as MS Azure, and Cumulocity among others.

The ICR-2701 is easy to install individually and in mass deployment scenarios using a full-featured configuration and monitoring software tool WebAccess/DMP. Safe remote VPN access to customer devices and PCs connected to routers through the Internet can be administrated by additional software WebAccess/VPN.

Using ICR-2701 in the industrial and non-industrial environments brings the key advantage of full compatibility with Advantech cellular routers where the complete communication structure is unified and the same procedures and tools can be used for cellular and non-cellular parts of the application. LAN routers are frequently used as secure LAN to WAN gateways and VPN appliances in a large scope of monitoring and data acquisition systems.