Quatech, a division of DPAC Technologies and specializing in wireless machine-to-machine or M2M networking solutions, announced the introduction of its Airborne Management Center (AMC) software.

The AMC software is capable of supporting installation, configuration and setup of Quatech’s rugged and secure enterprise-class Wi-Fi networking device servers, Ethernet bridges and embedded modules. Also, the Quatech Airborne Management Center offers enterprise class device discovery, management and control to M2M wireless devices.

According to company sources, this advanced device management application enables single-click maintenance. The AMC application can support individual and group management of all aspects of the devices ranging from firmware updating, configuration management, access management (passwords), virtual COM port installation and others.

Virtual COM port drivers can be installed with one click and this facilitates the use of legacy software for communicating with networked devices seamlessly through standard COM port addresses like com1, com2 in the system’s device manager. Quatech’s VCOM driver takes care of routing communication ports to the networked serial devices, added officials.

In a release Steve Runkel, Quatech president and CEO said, “The Airborne Management Center dramatically reduces the time required to both install and manage Quatech Airborne products.”

“By being able to remotely manage thousands of networked devices, corporate users reduce field service support calls, downtime, and warranty expenses that can result in savings of greater than $100,000 for large scale M2M applications,” Runkel added.

It was revealed that Quatech’s AMC software comes along with all external Airborne Industrial and Enterprise Class 802.11 serial device servers, Ethernet bridges and embedded modules. The external Industrial and Enterprise class product families provide the industry’s most advanced security features.

These advanced security features include wireless security; network security (EAP authentication and certificate support); built-in firewalls on the Ethernet and WLAN interfaces; secure communications with built-in SSH functionality and fully encrypted data tunnels for secure management and data transfer and device security in the form of multi-level encryption capability to protect sensitive device configuration data.

The Airborne Industrial and Enterprise Ethernet bridges are fully functional NAT Level 3 routers that can support a public IP address for the wireless interface and a private network for the attached devices on the wired interface, added company sources.

Quatech is now shipping the Airborne Management Center with all of its latest Wi-Fi networking products.  The software is also available for download on the company’s website.

In related news, TMCnet reported that Quatech shipped its dual-band 802.11a/b/g radios to Welch Allyn, a global manufacturer of frontline medical products and solutions in October 2009.