Taipei, Taiwan, 22 March, 2007– Ethernet Direct Corporation, a professional and primary provider of Industrial Networking and communication solutions, provides vertical integration over Industrial Ethernet with its range of powerful and reliable Industrial devices such as Industrial Ethernet switches, Industrial media converters, Serial device servers and more.

A number of applications in Transportation such as Traffic & Control, Management Systems in highways or Tunnel monitoring throughout the world have deployed Industrial Ethernet Switches from Ethernet Direct. The state of the art in transportation engineering has advanced over the last decade and the application of new & more flexible traffic control devices, software systems, computer hardware, communications and surveillance technologies, and analysis methods has become commonplace. Many metropolitan areas have created traffic management centers (TMC) with closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, traffic and weather sensors, electronic variable message signs (VMS), traffic signals, and ramp meters to monitor and manage traffic flow on streets and freeways.

A typical Traffic Network uses 10/100 Mbps Ethernet as the main communication medium with redundant topology used to increase reliability. Deploying an Ethernet Network achieves a dynamic monitoring system. This fiber optical ring structure requires the highest standard in fault-recovery technology. For long distances over fiber, the application of Gigabit Ethernet backbone is required. In addition, large amount of data flow are running in the network everyday, to solve this problem, the VLAN feature in an Industrial Managed switch is critical to segregate the data streams like inputs from toll side, road side to the traffic operations center,. Every single data collected geographically needs to be interpreted real time.

Ethernet Direct offers switches with SNMP management supporting a mixed of fiber and copper ports with advanced management features. Aside from standard-compatible RSTP protocol, X-ring redundancy provides back-up solution with 300ms, should a network break occurs for fast recovery in Ethernet LAN ring structures. The main focus of providing high quality fault tolerant switches in highway management systems to create a “Fully redundant and fully reliable” Ethernet network, to meet all the services in a traffic operation.

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