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News Release from: Ethernet Direct | Subject: Industrial switches
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 23 March 2007
Ethernet industrial switches voted best
choice
Ethernet Direct provides vertical integration over Industrial Ethernet with its range of powerful and reliable Industrial devices.
Ethernet Direct Industrial Switches voted as best choice in transportation and control applications 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
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 14 Dec 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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A number of applications in Transportation such as Traffic and 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 and 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.
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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.
An effective solution offered by Ethernet Direct is by having one TRULY Industrial Managed SNMP switch with :.
- Redundant Ring (STP/RSTP/X-ring).
- Virtual LAN (VLAN).
- QoS (Quality on Service).
- IGMP Snooping (for Multicast).
To learn more about Technical Paper related to Transportation application from Ethernet Direct, please contact info@ethernetdirect-tw.com.
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