708FX2 Industrial Ethernet Switch

N-Tron Networking Series

Managed Industrial Ethernet Switch

outstanding performance and ease of use. The fully managed switch

is ideally suited for connecting Ethernet-enabled industrial and/or

security equipment.

PRODUCT FEATURES

• Six 10/100BaseTX RJ-45 Ports

• Two 100BaseFX Fiber ports, ST or SC style

• 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

• Plug-and-Play IGMP Support

• 802.1Q tag VLAN and Port VLAN

• 802.1p QoS and Port QoS

• 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.

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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.

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