Industrial Ethernet Switches
Case Communication Industrial Ethernet Switches
![]() Case Communications Industrial Ethernet Switches |
Case Communications Industrial Ethernet Switches are designed to work reliably supporting mission critical applications under harsh conditions. Typically DIN Rail or Wall mounted the Switches operate from -40C to +75C without the use of fans. All Case Industrial Switches are equipped with dual DC Power supplies, for additional resilience. The Non-PoE Industrial Switches operate from 12vdc to 48vdc while the PoE and PoE plus switches operate from a 48vdc power source. |
Industrial Ethernet Switches Overview
Industrial Switches - Introduction
Industrial Ethernet - is the use of Ethernet in an industrial environment with protocols that provide deterministic and real-time control. Protocols for Industrial Ethernet include PROFINET, MODBUS/TCP, POWERLINK, SERCOS III and CC-LINK IE. Many Industrial Ethernet protocols use a modified MAC layer to provide low latency and determinism.
Industrial Ethernet can also refer to the use of standard Ethernet protocols with rugged connectors and extended temperature switches in an industrial environment, for automation or process control. Components used in plant process areas must be designed to work in harsh environments of temperature extremes, humidity, and vibration that exceed the ranges for information technology equipment intended for installation in controlled environments.
The use of fibre Ethernet reduces the problems of electrical noise and provides electrical isolation to prevent equipment damage. Some industrial networks emphasise deterministic delivery of transmitted data, whereas Ethernet uses collision detection which makes transport time for individual data packets difficult to estimate with increasing network traffic. Typically, industrial uses of Ethernet employ full-duplex standards and other methods so that collisions do not unacceptably influence transmission times.
Industrial Switches Redundancy
The Case Industrial Ethernet Switches provide link redundancy using STP (Spanning Tree Protocol IEEE 802.1D), RSTP (Rapid Spanning Tree IEEE 802.1w ) and MSTP ( Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol IEEE 802.1s). For the quickest self healing time, the switches use Advanced Ring Technology will allows the network to self-heal in 10ms to 20ms.
Some of the Case Industrial switches now use a new recommendation G.8032 (also known as Ethernet Ring Protection Switching. This is not as rapid as our proprietary ring protection protocols which took 20ms, while G.8032 takes approximately 50ms to re-route.
G.8032 provides the same functionality as our previous ring protocols but follows a recommendation which means they should inter-work with 3rd part switches.
All ring technologies provide the follow
- The avoidance of loops
- Learning, Forwarding and Filtering Database (FDB) mechanism which is defined in the Ethernet flow function (ETH_FF)
Loop avoidance in an Ethernet Ring is achieved by guaranteeing that, at any time, traffic may flow on all but one of the ring links. This particular link is called the Ring Protection Link (RPL), and under normal conditions this ring link is blocked.
In proprietary ring architecture the switch which blocks the traffic to prevent a loop is called the 'Ring Master', in G.8032 this is the 'Ring Protection Link' (RPL) The RPL is responsible for blocking traffic at one of its end. If the ring were to fail for any reason the RPL unblocks its port and self heals the ring.
Any failure along the ring triggers a signal fail message in both directions from the nodes next to the failed link after these nodes have blocked the port facing the failed link. On obtaining this message, RPL unblocks the RPL port. (Note that a single link failure anywhere in the ring ensures a loop free topology.)
The other Ethernet Ring Node adjacent to the RPL, the RPL Neighbour Node, may also participate in blocking or unblocking its end of the RPL.
The event of an Ethernet Ring failure results in protection switching of the traffic. This is achieved on all Ethernet Ring Nodes. An APS (Automatic Protection Switching) protocol is used to coordinate the protection actions over the ring.
Industrial Switches VLANS
Case Industrial Switches support Static Port and Tagged based VLANS, as well as Q in Q (VLAN Stacking).
Industrial Switches Quality of Service
Our Industrial Switches support quality of service based on industry standard features such as 802.1p, IP Tos etc.
Industrial Switches – Short Form Pluggables
Industry Standard SFP’s (Short Form Pluggables) ensure any distance and type of Fibre can be supported, and the switches all support DMI ( Dynamic Management Interface) allowing the fibre to be monitored from a central point with SNMP Traps or e-mails sent in the event of a fibre degradation or failure.
Industrial Switches – PoE / PoE+ - Power Over Ethernet
The Case Ethernet switches which support Power over Ethernet support both the standard PoE (IEEE 802.3af (15 watts at 48 volts DC)) and PoE+ (IEEE 802.3at (30 watts at 48 volts DC)). This allows the switches to power third party devices such as Pan, Tilt and Zoom CCTV, and Wi-Fi, and Wireless products etc.
Link Aggregation
Case Industrial Ethernet Switches support IEEE 802.3ad LACP Link aggregation allowing multiple trunks to be bonded to form a single high speed pipe.
Industrial Switches - Management
Management is via a HTTP / HTTPS, Browser, CLI , SSH2.0 or SNMP with the switches sending SNMP Traps to a Network Management System as well as being able to trigger a local relay port.
Security logon is provided either using the switches internal security or a RADIUS server. File management allows Firmware upgrades or backups and also configuration upload and download.
Please refer to each individual switches details for more specific information
DIN Rail Mounted Industrial Ethernet Switch Overview
PIXE 12T 4SX-G Industrial 10Gbps Switch with PoE/PoE+ Ports | ||
![]() 10Gbps Industrial Ethernet switch | Operating Temperature | -40C ~ +75C |
10/100 /1000 TX PoE / PoE+ ports | 8x 10/100/1000Tx PoE/PoE+ | |
10/100 /1000 TX ports | 4 x 1Gbps TX | |
10 /1.25Gbps/2.5 Gbps /5Gbps Gbps Fibre Ports | 4x 10Gbps Fibre (SFP) | |
Switching | Layer 2 | |
Backplane / PPS | 368 Gbps / 130.94 Mpps | |
Ring support | ERPS G.8032 | |
Installation | DIN Rail, Wall Mount or Shelf | |
Management | Web based, (HTTP / HTTPS) SSL, Telnet, SSH | |
More Information on PIXE 12T 4SX-G |
PIGE 12T 4GB MX -Industrial PoE Gigabit Managed Ethernet Switch | ||
![]() | 12 x 10/100/1000T and 4 x GBIC / SFP Fibre | |
Operating temperature | -400C to +750C | |
10/100 /1000 TX ports | 12x 10/100/1000Tx PoE / PoE+ | |
Fibre Ports | 4x Mini GBIC / SFP | |
Switching | Layer 2 | |
Backplane / PPS | 32 Gbps / 48 Mpps | |
Ring support | Up to 250 switches | |
Alarm output | Relay Port | |
Installation | DIN rail or wall mount | |
Management | Web based – SNMP v1 / V2 / V3 SSH 2 | |
Compliance | EN 50121-4 Compliant (Railway) DNV Compliant ( Marine) |
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More Information on X-Ring Plus Ethernet Industrial Ring Technology | ||
More Information on X-Ring Application Examples | ||
More Information on PIGE 12T 4GB MX |
PIGE 8T 4S MX -Industrial PoE Gigabit Managed Ethernet Switch | ||
![]() | 8 x 10/100/1000T and 4 x SFP Fibre | |
Operating temperature | -400C to +750C | |
10/100 /1000 TX ports | 8x 10/100/1000Tx PoE / PoE+ | |
Fibre Ports | 4x Gigabit SFP | |
Switching | Layer 2 | |
Backplane / PPS | 24 Gbps / 35.7 Mpps | |
Ring support | Up to 250 switches | |
Alarm output | Relay Port | |
Installation | DIN rail or wall mount | |
Management | Web based – SNMP v1 / V2 / V3 SSH 2 | |
Traffic Control | NEMA TS2 | |
ATEX | Compliant | |
Railway | EN 501210-4 | |
Hazardous Environment | Class 1 Division 2 | |
More Information on X-Ring Plus Ethernet Industrial Ring Technology | ||
More Information on X-Ring Application Examples | ||
More Information on PIGE 8T4SMX |
IFE 8T2GB MX -Industrial Managed Ethernet Switch | ||
![]() | 8 x 10/100T and 2 x Mini GBIC | |
Operating temperature | -400C to +750C | |
10/100 TX ports | 8 x 10/100Tx | |
Gigabit Ports | 2 Via Mini-GBIC | |
Fibre Ports | 2 x SFP Via Mini GBIC | |
Switching | Layer 2 | |
Backplane / PPS | 5.6Gbps / 8.3Mpps | |
Ring support | Up to 250 switches | |
Alarm output | Relay Port | |
Installation | DIN rail or wall mount | |
Management | Web Based SNMP V1/V2/V3 | |
More Information on X-Ring Plus Ethernet Industrial Ring Technology | ||
More Information on X-Ring Application Examples | ||
More Information on IFE 8T2GB |
IFE 16T 4GB MC -Industrial Managed Ethernet Switch | ||
![]() | 16 x 10/100T and 4 x Gigabit SFP | |
Operating temperature | -400C to +750C | |
10/100 TX ports | 16 x 10/100Tx | |
Fibre Ports | 4 x SFP | |
Switching | Layer 2 | |
Backplane / PPS | 11.2Gbps / 7.5Mpps | |
Ring support | Up to 250 switches | |
Alarm output | Relay Port | |
Installation | DIN rail or wall mount | |
Management | SSH – Web based + SNMP V1/V2/V3 | |
More Information on X-Ring Plus Ethernet Industrial Ring Technology | ||
More Information on X-Ring Application Examples | ||
More Information on IFE 16T4GB |
PIFE 8T 2GB MF -Industrial PoE Gigabit Managed Ethernet Switch | ||
![]() | 8 x 10/100/1000T and 2 x SFP Fibre | |
Operating temperature | -400C to +750C | |
10/100 TX ports | 8x 10/100Tx PoE / PoE+ | |
Fibre Ports | 2x Gigabit SFP | |
Switching | Layer 2 | |
Backplane / PPS | 5 Gbps / 7.4 Mpps | |
Ring support | Up to 250 switches | |
Alarm output | Relay Port | |
Installation | DIN rail or wall mount | |
Management | Web based – SNMP v1 / V2 / V3 | |
More Information on X-Ring Plus Ethernet Industrial Ring Technology | ||
More Information on X-Ring Application Examples | ||
More Information on PIFE 8T2GBMF |
Industrial Rack Mounted Switch Overview – RML3-4248P
RML3-4248P 10Gbps Rackmount switch | ||
![]() 10Gbps L3 Industrial Rackmount switch |
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Operating Temperature | -40C ~ +80C | |
TX Ports10/100 /1000 TX | 8 x 10/100/100Tx PoE / PoE+ | |
100 / 1000 Gbps SFP Ports | 24 x 1.25Gbps SFP Ports | |
10Gbps Ports | 4 x 10Gbps SFP Ports | |
Switching | Layer 3 | |
Backplane | 598 Gbps (Non-Blocking), 107.14 MPPS | |
Ring Support | STP (IEEE 802.1d), RSTP (IEEE 802.1w), MSTP (IEEE 802.1s) & G.8032 (ERPS) More Information G.8032 | |
Installation | RackMount | |
VLANS | Port Based 4,000 & IEEE 802.1q, & Protocol based | |
MAC Addresses | 32,000 | |
Management | SNMP, HTTPS, CLI, SSH2.0 | |
More Information on RML3-4248P |