THE ULTIMATE FEP BRIDGING MOTOROLA RTUs TO MODERN SCADA VIA OPEN & STANDARD PROTOCOLS.
THE CLOCK HAS RUN OUT ON UNSUPPORTED LEGACY INFRASTRUCTURE!
The Baseline for Modern Utility Governance: Why a 30-Year-Old Legacy Framework Is Simply No Longer an Option
When your wide-area telemetry networks were initially deployed, the core Motorola MCP-T & IP Gateway (IPGW) API was engineered for the technology of its day, originating during the UNIX era nearly three decades ago. While your field assets remain robust and your corporate SCADA platforms have evolved, that foundational software bridge in the control room has remained fundamentally unchanged.
In today’s operational environment, relying on a 30-year-old legacy framework is simply no longer an option for responsible asset management. It introduces unacceptable risks to cybersecurity, system availability, and operational continuity:
Unsupportable Technology Chains: Legacy IP Gateway integrations rely heavily on custom, brittle API code developed by third-party software companies. Because this software layer is no longer actively supported by Motorola, an unexpected failure leaves your organization without a clear path for vendor accountability or technical escalation.
The Hidden Operational Tax: Your engineering teams are forced to act as software maintainers—constantly managing volatile Windows OS updates, patching endless security vulnerabilities, and troubleshooting legacy bugs just to keep the central communication link alive.
Slow Disaster Recovery: If a central SCADA software failure occurs, recovering a fragmented, PC-and-API-based communication driver is a slow, manual, unreliable and complex process. This delays situational awareness precisely when executive leadership needs it most.
ENGINEERED BY THE WORLD’S LEADING MDLC EXPERTS, GATE2MDLC IS THE ONLY FEP THAT SEAMLESSLY BRIDGES ALL MOTOROLA RTUs (MC-EDGE, ACE3600, MOSCAD, ACE1000, MOSCAD-M/L) TO ALL MAJOR SCADA SOFTWARE VIA STANDARD/OPEN PROTOCOLS (MODBUS, DNP3.0, IEC60870-5-104/1).
Gate2MDLC is specifically designed to substitute obsolete Motorola MCP-M, MCP-T, M-OPC, and old IP Gateways API drivers as well as legacy 3rd-party FIU (Front End Interface Unit) processing solutions, without requiring modification to existing RTU applications. Its primary customers are organizations trapped on legacy setups who need to map MDLC data directly to modern SCADA centers via standard protocols like MODBUS, DNP3, or IEC 60870-5-104.
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Smart Grid & Electricity Distribution Companies: Power utilities utilizing MDLC bridging over wireless or fiber networks for substation automation, re-closers, capacitor banks, and load-shedding networks. Gate2MDLC allows grid operators to bypass failing 3rd-party FIU boxes and feed real-time distribution data into modern DMS/SCADA platforms via standard protocols like DNP3 or IEC 60870-5-104 without touching field RTU logic.
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Large-Scale Water Authorities: Utilities needing to replace aging 3rd-party FIU solutions and bring existing MOSCAD or legacy/new ACE3600 network points directly into modern HMI/SCADA engines (like ControlMaestro, Wonderware InTouch, or iFIX) via a clean IP bridge.
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Oil & Gas Pipeline Operators: Midstream operators with massive, geographically dispersed telemetry infrastructure over complex radio links (TETRA, P25, digital data radio) that need a highly reliable, redundant FEP at the central control room to displace unsupported 3rd-party communication hardware and parse the protocol layers seamlessly.
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Civil Defense / Siren Networks: Municipalities and public safety bodies running large early-warning siren configurations over radio systems (like MotoTRBO or DMR) that rely on a dedicated hardware FEP to eliminate legacy 3rd-party FIU bottlenecks and guarantee immediate, low-overhead communication execution without software-induced latency.
After nearly four decades of Motorola RTUs in the field, MDLC remains the only field-proven, native 7-layer OSI protocol engineered to operate deterministically over any communication wireless or wired media and network infrastructure, even across vast, wide, or geographically unreachable areas. While standard open protocols struggle with overhead, drop packets, or fail entirely when subjected to complex, constrained, or remote data paths, MDLC’s robust error-correction, network layer, session oriented, authentication, encryption, remote SW & HW diagnostics, and report-by-exception capabilities ensure flawless transmission over extreme distances. Gate2MDLC preserves this structural resilience across generation gaps by natively supporting both ALL radio technologies and modern, next-generation wireless networks including conventional narrow-band data radio, ASTRO, DMR (MotoTRBO), TETRA, Conventional, Data Radio and more. It is this total media flexibility that allows utilities to maintain bulletproof connectivity across their most remote and un-reachable assets while upgrading their physical network carriers seamlessly.