Taipei, Taiwan, 29 March, 2007– Ethernet Direct Corporation, a professional and primary provider of Industrial Networking and communication solutions, is proud to offer a whole range of Industrial Ethernet Switches with multiple levels of redundancy to secure and ensure a reliable Industrial network application.

Having an Industrial Ethernet switch with effective redundancy strategies is crucial in Industrial applications where a failure could result in catastrophe. Ethernet Direct’ especially designed switches deliver the highest accessibility to ensure profitability.

HUE unmanaged switches, HWE web-managed switches, HME managed SNMP Ethernet switches and HMG SNMP Managed Gigabit switches are all equipped with Power redundancy which is an essential feature a network requires, to be able to hook up to an alternative power supply in case a power failure occurs. The relay output function will trigger an alarm.

Ring redundancy provides a back-up path in an event that any part of a network is disrupted. Ethernet Direct’s X-Ring is designed for mission critical Industrial networks and can deactivate one of the links in the ring to data traffic while simultaneously monitoring that the link is functioning. In case one of the links in the ring fails, the deactivated link is “activated” in less than 300 milliseconds for HWE & HME Industrial Ethernet switches and less than 30ms for Industrial Gigabit switches.

Finding ways to provide recovery from faults in nodes connected to critical devices has been made easy by Ethernet Direct. Further to ring redundancy, switches should be able to be configured with dual network nodes in the form of Dual Homing technology. This Network node redundancy adds reliability by allowing a device to be connected to the Ethernet network by having two independent connection points – one as operating connection and the other as back-up connection. This feature is present in Ethernet Direct’s Managed SNMP Industrial Ethernet & Gigabit switches.

The Entire system redundancy is only reliable only when multi levels of redundancies can be achieved. It minimizes data loss by providing fast recovery time in case of unexpected network disruption.

As Industrial Ethernet increases, redundant schemes can help Industrial engineers to maintain a better and more cost-effective network which results to higher productivity and real-time decision making for the management.

To know more about Ethernet Direct product series – HUE, HWE, HME & HMG or to learn more about the Ethernet Direct Global Network, please visit our website www.ethernetdirect-tw.com.