We are proud to introduce our newest outdoor cellular router: the HD2 Dome! This router provides dual-cellular SpeedFusion SD-WAN with greater mounting versatility than anything we’ve made before. With its integrated screw mount, you can easily install it on rooftops and on top of poles. With the included mounting bracket, you can to nail it to any wall or tie it to the side of any pole.
The HD2 Dome’s ports are just as flexible. It only needs power from a single 802.3af PoE cable, but the single LAN port can also become two when you add the included Ethernet splitter!
SIM Injector: Free the SIM Cards From the Router!
Using the SIM injector, you can add an additional eight SIM cards to your deployment. What’s more, these SIM cards can be located separately from the router.
This means you could mount the HD2 Dome outdoors in a high up place, while comfortably managing your SIM cards from an indoor location or from ground level. In addition, the SIM Injector also works as a PoE switch, powering up the HD2 Dome directly.
we are all very excited about the Fusion SIM / SIM Injector official announcement and can’t wait to fully test it.
I am wondering if maybe a new firmware was released? The one we are currently using does not allow us to “inject” the SIMs with custom APN and PIN. I hope this will be resolved before first units are deployed.
Hello @TheMissingLink,
The HD2 dome can operate in two ways:
You can install 2 x SIMs for each of the internal modems
You can use the SIM Injector / FusionSIM with or without internal SIMs
We do not advise opening the MAX HD2 Dome unless it is absolutely necessary, use a SIM Injector in preference on the same physical network as the MAX HD2 Dome…
We deployed the first of these here in Australia, based on our experience we recommend only installing the internal SIMs when you are going to have the SIM Injector/FusionSIM remotely located away on a different physical network. This is the situation when the SIMs will be left in the operations/data centre, your HD2 Dome is going to need an initial connection so to establish the link back into your SIM Injector / FusionSIM.
Happy to Help,
Marcus
Helllo @VideoStream,
The HD2 Dome has only two LTE Modems within. You would need to connect two HD2 Domes into another balance router if you want 4 LTE connections.
Happy to help,
Marcus
I’m working on a Blog Post on the HD2 Dome and I’m looking for a few technical details. Are there any specs on the built-in antenna, specifically the gain and the reception pattern.
Also, it is listed as LTE but the LTE radios are discontinued, is this an error in the documentation, or is it LTEA, listed as LTE because of certification issues?
Hello @Kachadurian,
The units we have worked with all have had LTEA chip sets.
As to the antenna patterns & gains, that is something the Peplink team will need to help with.
What I can share is the antenna performance has been better than we expected, part of this is we expect due to two reasons;
The connection from the internal antenna to the LTEA modem will be very short with a minimal number of internal connectors.
The metal roof of the vehicles (see the photo of the bus above) helps improve the performance of the antennas.
