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Volume 27 • • • • ed by the DRI. Switches may be located up to 16km away from the equipment location. The DRI is designed to display and con- trol alarm event switching for up to 64 fiber optic tamper switches. When a switch is opened or closed – the associated dry contact relay output acti- vates in less than one second. Custom configurations are available for larger sensor count systems as well as Physical Security Information Manage- ment (PSIM) software-based systems where C3 or C4 integration is required. The FiberStrike®LCM-2500 Discrete Relay Interface (DRI) is an excellent value that provides speed of light response to intrusion events across up to 64 locations with immunity to September 2018 Edition cyber-hacking while making very ef- ficient and effective use of available unused fiber, further reducing instal- lation costs. 1. Nordrum, Amy (18 August 2016). “Popular In- ternet of Things Forecast of 50 Billion Devices by 2020 Is Outdated”. IEEE. 63