Ethernet Direct Expands M12 IP67 Industrial Ethernet Switch Offering
03/01/2010
Taipei, Taiwan, 1 March, 2010 – Ethernet Direct Corporation, a professional and primary provider of industrial networking and communication solutions, announces an expanded product offering of Whale series M12 IP67 Industrial Ethernet switches designed for the toughest industrial applications and comes with IP-67/68 rating.
The Whale Series comes in unmanaged (WUE) or managed (WME), with and without power over Ethernet feature. Ethernet Direct Industrial M12 switch series come with revolutionized a new design concept to be deployed in applications that require environment protection such as outdoor locations including transportation (railways, moving vehicles, highways), mining sites, factory automation, petrochemical plants, metal industries, oil & gas, military applications, chemical processing and food and beverage industries.
Each whale series product is a highly reliable and designed with a robust housing protection, IP-67 water tight protection and M12 connectors. The WME managed versions provides powerful network management functions and redundant self-recovery mechanism in less than 10ms on full load which allows you to establish a redundant Ethernet network to build a backup ring topology. The WUE unmanaged versions come with equally superior quality.
For transportation application demands, PoE function is embedded in the WUE and WME series. Ethernet Direct focuses on customized project designs to meet various applications.
Hardware features of WUE & WME
Robust aluminum case complying to IP-67 housing standard
M12 connectors for further protection
Supports wide operating temperature from -40 to 80 deg C
Supports wide range power input 12~48VDC with M12 5-pole A-coded connector
Supports reverse power polarity protection
Software features of WME
Provides 8 x 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports with M12 shielded connector
Redundant ring recovery time < 10 ms on full load
Support LLDP protocol
SNMP for network management
IGMP snooping for filtering multicast traffic
QoS / ToS to increase network packet determinism
VLAN for easy network planning
Event notification by e-mail, SNMP trap, Syslog & Relay output
Online Port Mirroring for online debugging
IP security to define access levels for protection
IntraVUE Network Management software compatible
To learn more about the NEW M12 series, please contact the Global Ethernet Direct locations.
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Ethernet Direct Corporation
Ethernet Direct brings a control system
engineering perspective to networking technology.
The principals of Ethernet Direct come from
process-control and PLC system backgrounds.
The Global Ethernet Direct team covers
operations from Product know-how, design
implementation, quality assurance, manufacturing,
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