Managed Industrial 6 and 10 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch

• Managed Industrial 6 and 10 Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch with single or dual DC power
• Two 10/100/1000 copper or Gigabit fiber uplink ports
• Four or eight 10/100/1000 copper user ports
• ST, SC and LC fiber ports or Gigabit SFP transceivers
• Supports jumbo frames up to 10,240 bytes
• Management via Web, Telnet, SSH, SNMPv1/v2c/v3 and serial interfaces
• SNMP management via Omnitron’s NetOutlook® management software, or third-party SNMP software
• Email Notification with Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
• IEEE 802.1x, RADIUS, TACACS+ and ACL
• IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
• IEC 62439-2 Industrial Ring Media Redundancy Protocol
• IEEE 802.1ax Link Aggregation Group and Link Aggregation Control Protocol; Active/Active and Active/Standby
• Dual Device mode for operating as two separate switches
• Directed Switch mode to prevent port flooding
• Alarm contacts and sensors
• Wall, Rack and DIN-rail mountable
• Fan-less design for long life
• Industrial (-40 to 75ºC) operating temperature
• Made in the USA
• Free 24/7/365 Technical Support

ADDITIONAL FEATURES

• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging and IEEE 802.1ad Q-in-Q Provider Bridge VLAN stacking
• Port Access Control for enhanced security
• Broadcast / Multicast / Unicast Storm Prevention
• DHCP Relay Option 82
• RFC 4541 Internet Group Management snooping
• IEEE 802.1ab Link Layer Discovery Protocol
• Rate Limiting, Queue prioritization and Class of Service
• Static MAC configuration and blocking of unknown Unicast/Multicast addresses
• SNTP / NTP and time of day
• RFC 5424 Syslog

The RuggedNet G/Mi is a ruggedized Industrial gigabit Ethernet switch that features fiber or copper uplink ports and four or eight 10/100/1000 RJ-45 copper user ports. The RuggedNet G/Mi enables industrial network distance extension with fiber cabling.

The RuggedNet G/Mi is a standard Layer 2 Ethernet switch that forwards frames to any port based on their MAC address.

The RuggedNet G/Mi supports Directed Switch mode, which directs multicast traffic (such as video) only to the appropriate uplink port, preventing the multicast video traffic from flooding other network ports.

Models with two fiber or two copper uplink ports support redundant uplinks, industrial ring Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP), Spanning Tree protocol and daisy-chain configurations for high availability industrial network applications.

Models with two fiber or two copper uplink ports also support Dual Device mode that enables the G/Mi to operate as two independent and isolated Ethernet switches. In Dual Device mode, the G/Mi provides separate and independent data traffic paths between the two uplink ports and four or eight user ports.

The mode of operation can be configured using easily accessible DIP-switches or using Web, Telnet, SSH, SNMPv1/v2c/v3 or Serial Console management interfaces. These management interfaces provide access to filtering and security options, such as, broadcast storm prevention, IGMP, IEEE 802.1x, RADIUS, TACACS+ and Access Control Lists. Email event notification and alarm reporting is provided using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.

Models are available with fixed ST, SC, and LC fiber connectors or Small Form Pluggable (SFP) transceiver receptacles. Fiber ports support multimode or single-mode and dual fiber or single-fiber with distances up to 140km. SFP models support a variety of distances in standard and CWDM wavelengths.

The compact RuggedNet Ethernet switches can be wall or rack mounted with an optional wall mount bracket or DIN-rail mounted using the included DIN-rail mounting clip. They are available with single or dual DC input power options.

An alarm relay is available to detect user configured events. The relay contact can be configured for normally open or normally closed operation. One alarm input is available for detecting external events such as door open or closed.

Dual Device Mode Application

This Dual Device feature is extremely useful when two isolated networks domains share a single network distribution location.

The example below depicts a scenario where the Quality Control (green) network and the Manufacturing (purple) network are sharing a single hub distribution location. Using the two uplinks and the Dual Switch mode facilitates using a single switch driving both the Quality Control and the Manufacturing devices while maintaining isolation between the networks.

Daisy-Chain and Ring Topology Network Application

This example demonstrates the daisy chaining and ring capabilities of the RuggedNet. In this application each RuggedNet switch connects to its neighboring switches via its uplink ports eventually closing the ring. The RuggedNet switches are providing connectivity between the workstations and the router.

Using this network architecture combined with ring protection protocols such as Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP) or Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) facilitates a highly resilient network required in mission critical applications.