Weidmuller IES industrial ethernet switches

The IES series of industrial ethernet switches supersedes an existing range to meet the increasingly complex and demanding tasks of monitoring and controlling operational data.

With three ranges to choose from, the series offers a broad choice of fast ethernet or gigabit ethernet managed switches with various port combinations. Users can select from entry-level IES21 fast ethernet, IES31 fast ethernet with gigabit uplink, up to IES41 full gigabit ethernet switches.

The switches feature ring redundancy with floating master, latest security features, IGMP snooping and a built-in virtual cable tester.

The family meets all current Australian Standards.

Equipped with the all-new W-Ring, the family delivers far more redundancy and greater reliability and simplifies network requirements by eliminating master/slave settings in a redundant ring, while providing a network reinstatement time of less than 20 ms.

The switches also feature MSTP for additional redundancy. MSTP furnishes the network with spare links that automatically provide backup paths should the active links fail.

The switches also have a built-in virtual cable tester that checks a twisted-pair connection status by using time domain reflection. It can identify the type of fault as well as the distance from the switch port within five seconds.

The family can prioritise network traffic using the 802.1p standard, IP TOS as well as DSCP.

They are compatible with SMNP3, radius and tacas and for integrating into Cisco secured networks.