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SCATS V6.9 Brings Disaster Recovery into its ranks and Virtualisation

Version 6.9 of SCATS has recently been released by the Roads and Maritime Services Authority of NSW, Australia with a new set of features aimed at ensuring that Traffic Management Centres that use SCATS have continued of control of their road network by having SCATS capable of switching from a primary server to a backup server very quickly. SCATS Failover Redundancy This is known as the SCATS High Availaibility topology and is available on this version running on an MS SQL Server Database. This high availability capability can be performed on different LAN/WAN topologies and using SAN (Storage Area Network) systems. So all the intersections that are connected to the main SCATS Regional Computers can be accessed and controlled by a second set of SCATS Regional Computers (clearly not at the same time) in the event of failover to the backup SCATS system with no interruption of visibility. SCATS Failover Block Diagram In the field the situation changes and SCATS allows for t