Industrial Ethernet Switches

The Industrial Ethernet Switches from our extensive portfolio feature industrial-grade reliability, assured enterprise interoperability, network redundancy, comprehensive security, and easy management. They have multiple mounting options for faster and easier installations.

All these properties make them universally applicable in highly secure enterprise, IoT, and M2M solutions. With their help, you will maximize throughput, simplify installation, and reduce overall costs.

The high-quality switches are manufactured by world’s leading companies:

• Teltonika,
• Hirschmann,
• Turck,
• and TTControl.

To ensure the connectivity of devices the local Ethernet networks use various networking hardware. The industrial ethernet switch is the most important among them because it acts as a brain of the network, and it helps to connect the devices on a particular Local Area Network (LAN) effectively. The switch receives a message from a target source and forwards it to the intended device, thereby ensuring an effective data transmission between devices on a LAN.

Due to their growing importance, ethernet switches are designed in a wide range of configurations. Although they can be differentiated based on their ports, materials or other specifics, they mainly belong to two categories – the managed and unmanaged ethernet switches.

An Unmanaged Ethernet Switch is a device capable of transmitting data packets from one port to the other. It learns the MAC addresses that help a switch to remember, which port a device is plugged into. Meanwhile, a Managed Ethernet Switch knows the IP of the connected devices, providing you advanced network management options. A Lite, Semi-managed or Configurable Ethernet Switch is an unmanaged switch that supports main protocols of managed switch, e.g., STP, RSTP, VLAN, which makes it attractive and affordable for non-demanding applications.

While the Managed Ethernet Switch provides flexibility to you to control, manage, and prioritize the LAN traffic, an Unmanaged Ethernet Switch works like a plug and play (PnP) switch. The latter allows devices on the LAN to communicate with each other, without your intervention.

Other key differences between both switches cover:

It is important that you choose the right industrial ethernet switch that meets the requirements of your IT scope. The pointers below may help you:

We offer products that are designed with professional application scenarios in mind, where sturdy and reliable products are required for highly secure enterprise, IoT, and M2M solutions. They provide multiple interfaces for a quick infrastructure setup, even with large device ecosystems.

You can use the industrial ethernet switches for vehicles and machines used in rugged operating environments and at extreme operating temperatures in many application fields, e.g.:

• Manufacturing and automation industries,
• Material handling,
• Machine Building,
• Transportation and traffic control,
• Automotive manufacturing,
• Processing plants,
• Agriculture,
• Construction,
• Video surveillance,
• and much more.