IGPS-9080 Series User Manual
ORing Industrial Networking Corp
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4.2 O-Chain
4.2.1 Introduction
O-Chain is ORing’s revolutionary network redundancy technology which enhances network
redundancy for any backbone networks, providing ease-of-use and maximum fault-recovery
swiftness, flexibility, compatibility, and cost-effectiveness in a set of network redundancy
topologies. The self-healing Ethernet technology designed for distributed and complex
industrial networks enables the network to recover in less than 30 milliseconds (in full-duplex
Gigabit operation) or 10 milliseconds (in full-duplex Fast Ethernet operation) for up to 250
switches if at any time a segment of the chain fails.
O-Chain allows multiple redundant rings of different redundancy protocols to join and function
together as a large and the most robust network topologies. It can create multiple redundant
networks beyond the limitations of current redundant ring technologies.
4.2.2 Configurations
O-Chain is very easy to configure and manage. Only one edge port of the edge switch needs
to be defined. Other switches beside them just need to have O-Chain enabled.
