ICP DAS USA VERION 1.0 MSM-508FCS - Manual (Page 5)

Industrial Ethernet Layer 2 Managed Switch User Manual
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Preface
The advent of Ethernet brings the whole world a new territory. So it does in industrial
application. More and more industrial devices and equipment now support Ethernet. To
make all these devices and equipment integrated and worked, the Ethernet switch is a
key character.
For commercial using, the Ethernet switch is very easy to choose, and also cheap. But,
in industrial field application, user must take the environment conditions and field
requirement into concern.
Harsh environ, such as extreme high or low temperature, moisture, ground
differentials and electrical noise … etc
Requirement of fault-tolerant solution.
For automation and control engineers who have been forced into this IT domain,
they really don't want to get too involved with the idiosyncrasies and maintenance
of Ethernet networks.
To satisfy these, the Managed Switch provides you a rugged, fault-tolerant, plug and
play solution.
ICP DAS industrial Switch Series
ICP DAS industrial Ethernet switch has the following series:
NS Series: Network Switch Series, a standard switch with industrial class of
quality.
RS Series: Ring Switch Series, a redundant ring switch with industrial class of
quality.
Managed Series: A redundant ring switch with industrial class of quality, and
provides lots of powerful managed functions.
How to Use this manual
This manual is intended to help user quickly understanding and easily making use of
MSM-508 (and other supported products), and the arrangement of chapters and
sections follows the steps that user need to take.