N-TRON 8 Port Managed Industrial Ethernet Switch
The N-TRON® 708FX2 Industrial Ethernet Switch combinesoutstanding performance and ease of use. The fully managed switchis ideally suited for connecting Ethernet-enabled industrial and/orsecurity equipment.
PRODUCT FEATURES
• Six 10/100BaseTX RJ-45 Ports
• Two 100BaseFX Fiber ports, ST or SC style
• -40oC to 85oC Operating temperature
• ESD and Surge Protection Diodes on all Ports
• Auto Sensing 10/100BaseTX, Duplex, and MDIX
• Store-and-Forward Technology
• Rugged DIN-Rail Enclosure
• Redundant Power Inputs (10-30 VDC)
• Configurable Alarm Contact
• Configurable Bi-Color Fault Status LED
Fully Managed Features:
• Full SNMP and Web Browser Management
• Detailed Ring Map and Fault Location Charting
• N-Ring™ Technology with ~30ms Healing
• N-View™ OPC Monitoring
• Plug-and-Play IGMP Support
• 802.1Q tag VLAN and Port VLAN
• 802.1p QoS and Port QoS
• EtherNet/IP™ CIP Messaging
• LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol)
• Trunking
• Mirroring
• 802.1d, 802.1w, 802.1D RSTP
• DHCP Server, Option 82 relay, Option 61, IP Fallback
• Port Security—MAC Address Based
Management Features
The 708FX2 offers several management functions that can be easily configured using a web browser.
IGMP Snooping - Internet Group Management Protocol is a feature that allows the 708FX2 switch to forward and filter multicast traffic intelligently.
VLAN - Virtual Local Area Network allows you to segment the switch in order to create two or more separate local area network domains.
QoS - Quality of Service provides prioritization of network traffic in order to provide better network service. The primary goal of QoS is to improve the latency of prioritized Ethernet packets required for ring management, real-time, and other interactive applications.
Trunking - Trunking (link aggregation) enables multiple physical ports to be linked together and function as one uplink to another N-TRON trunking capable switch configured in the same manner, thereby increasing the bandwidth between switches. This configuration can provide increased bandwidth and redundancy to applications requiring high levels of fault tolerant operation.
Port Mirroring - This function allows the traffic on one port to be duplicated and sent to a designated mirror port. Port mirroring can be used to monitor Ethernet traffic on the designated source port using the assigned mirror port.
Rapid Spanning
Tree This function allows the switch to be configured in a ring or mesh topology, and provides support for redundant path communications with high-speed (rapid) healing.
Remote Monitoring Options
For ease of configuration and monitoring, the 708FX2 offers web browser management and N-View OLE for Process Control (OPC) server software. The N-TRON N-View software can be combined with popular HMI software packages to add network traffic monitoring, trending, and alarming to any application using N-TRON switches. In addition SNMP is available for switch link and status monitoring. The Alarm Contact and Status LED can be configured to respond to power failure on power input 1 or input 2, N-Ring Broken, Partial Break High, Partial Break Low, or if multiple ring managers are detected.
N-Ring Technology
The switch's ring manager, using N-TRON's N-Ring technology, offers expanded ring size capacity, detailed fault diagnostics, and a standard healing time of ~30ms. The 708FX2 ring manager periodically checks the health of the ring via packets. If the ring manager stops receiving these health check packets, it converts the Ring to a linear bus topology within ~30ms. When all switches in the ring are N-TRON fully managed switches, a detailed ring map and fault location chart will also be provided on the ring manager’s web browser and OPC server to identfy the health status of the ring. N-Link allows the linking of two N-Rings. Up to 250 fully managed N-TRON switches can participate in N-Ring topologies.
Industrial Packaging and Specifications
The 708FX2 is designed to operate in industrial environments. It is housed in a rugged steel DIN-Rail enclosure. It has extended industrial specifications and features to meet or exceed the operating parameters of the connected equipment. These include extended temperature ratings, extended shock and vibrations specs, redundant power inputs, and high MTBF (greater than 2M hours).
Ease of Use
The 10/100BaseTX ports are auto sensing and auto configuring. Each copper port is automatically negotiated for maximum speed and performance by default, but can also be hard coded using the user interface. A high-speed processor allows wire speed capability on all 100BaseTX ports simultaneously.
