Features:
- Combines four SFP+ uplinks with six hot-swappable four-port media-module positions.
- Handles Layer 2 switching, integrated Layer 3 routing, VLANs, multicast control, and network redundancy.
- Supplies a maximum 180 W PoE budget across supported electrical PoE media modules.
The front-access 2 U chassis accepts electrical, electrical PoE, or optical media modules without fixing every access port to one medium.
Four SFP+ positions carry gigabit or 10-gigabit uplinks independently of the six modular access groups.
PROFINET diagnostics, web and CLI management, event logging, and a signaling contact expose network and hardware state.
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Combining Modular Access Links with Fixed Uplinks
- Access layer: Each media-module position accepts a supported electrical, PoE, or optical module, allowing the field-facing medium to follow the network design.
- Backbone layer: The SFP+ positions remain independent of the module slots and carry the higher-speed uplink paths.
- Live replacement: A supported module can be exchanged without redefining the other installed access groups.
- Planning boundary: Port count and medium depend on the selected modules, so the chassis alone does not define every field connection.
Moving Traffic Across Defined VLAN Boundaries
- Segmentation first: Port-, protocol-, and IP-based VLANs create the Layer 2 boundaries used by the routed design.
- Dual address families: Static and dynamic routing can exchange traffic between configured IPv4 or IPv6 networks.
- Protocol choice: RIP and OSPF variants distribute route information when dynamic routing is enabled.
- Gateway continuity: VRRP provides a redundant default-gateway role when another compatible router participates in the same design.
Matching Redundancy Functions to the Physical Topology
- Industrial ring: MRP or HRP supervises a compatible ring and restores the alternate path after a ring link fails.
- Coupled rings: MRP interconnection links supported MRP domains without treating the combined layout as one unmanaged loop.
- Bridged topology: STP, RSTP, RSTP+, or MSTP controls redundant paths in a spanning-tree design.
- Parallel connection: LACP groups compatible physical links into one logical connection rather than creating an uncontrolled loop.
Relating Port Events to Automation Diagnostics
- Local and remote access: Web management and CLI provide configuration paths from a browser or console session.
- Network supervision: SNMP integrates switch state and alarms with a network-management system.
- Event evidence: SysLog, port counters, and error statistics preserve the context needed to investigate a link problem.
- Automation project: PROFINET diagnostics and I&M records expose switch identity and device state within the engineering environment.