Encore Networks announced today the BANDIT-II™, a rugged router with high-speed, low-latency EVDO applications. The product has been released in response to customer requiements for cyber security solutions that perform reliably under harsh environmental conditions and also provide advanced networking features expected in corporate offices.

From the press release:

"As a more compact version of the previously announced BANDIT-III™, Encore’s environmentally hardened router designed for SCADA and other rugged network environments; the BANDIT-II™ is a fully featured integrated router complete with firewall, terminal server, serial-to-IP conversion, legacy-to-IP conversion and VPN functionalities. The EVDO capabilities of the BANDIT-II™ can be utilized in either the primary or failover network port. The seamless cellular failover feature is ideally suited for Disaster Recovery applications."