Magnum 6K8-Series Industrial Field Switch | Installation and User Guide (04/07) |
2.4Applications
Magnum 6K8-Series Fiber Switches offer high performance, modularity and
higher availability to provide an effective solution for Industrial Ethernet needs. They provide the flexibility of 100Mbps fiber and copper ports as well as single or dual Gigabit (1000Mb) ports, with industry-standard MNS-6K software. Magnum 6K8-Series Switches are easily used in a variety of applications including client/server computing, secure VLAN- performance upgrades to departmental networks, and stream traffic for VOIP and audio/video applications for a diversified combination of mixed media for monitoring and signaling in Industrial floor applications. The performance characteristic of the 6K8-Series Switches enable them to inter-connect a series of subnets (one subnet per 6K8-Series Switch port) in a LAN traffic center. The subnet connections may be via fiber or twisted pair cabling, 1000Mbps, 100Mbps or 10 Mbps speed, and full-or half- duplex.
The mixed-media modular capability is ideal for Industrial applications where existing Ethernet LAN network cabling must be accommodated. The fiber-built-in media capability is ideal for integrating future-proof fiber cabling into the LAN structure.
Example 1: Magnum 6K8-Series Switch for an Industrial application
Equipped with lots of useful features such as a hardened Industrial enclosure, a wide spread of AC/DC power supply options, extended temperature rating and secured management features qualifies the Magnum 6K8-Series Managed switch for any Industrial factory-floors, traffic control, transportations systems, monitoring and signaling and power utilities applications. The bundle of MNS-6K software operated features diversifies this managed switch to operate and perform securely and reliably in all critical applications. The addition of the S-Ringand Link-Loss-Learnsoftware feature allows this Managed switch to provide a very reliable highly available redundant network capability in any ring topology network.
In an Industrial environment where the factory floors are networked with Ethernet based mixed-media LANs and equipped with PLC computers to take readings and data from M/C Client/ Server databases and transport this important data to the central office data warehouses the Managed 6K8-Series shines. The Managed 6K8- Series’s modularity along with MNS-6K management software features handle these
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