red lion EL212F, Installation Manual

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Section 1 General Information
Overview
The Red Lion EL212 is a 12 port (8 + 4G) industrial Ethernet managed switch designed to
meet the extreme requirements of power substations, traffic control, railway and other
harsh environments. It combines the high performance and security of an enterprise-class
switch with rugged packaging and protected circuitry to meet the needs of the most
demanding applications.
This manual will help you install and maintain these industrial Ethernet switches.
Installation of these switches is very easy and they will begin to operate as soon as they are
powered up. Though these are fully managed switches, they will act as unmanaged until
they are configured otherwise. Refer to the separate software manual or management
guide for configuration of the advanced networking functionality and security.
Note: This manual only covers the installation and wiring of these switches. Refer
to the separate Management Guide for details on configuring and using any of the
management functions such as SNMP, RSTP, IGMP, VLANs, security, port
mirroring and much more.
Basic
Operation
Unlike an Ethernet hub that broadcasts all messages out all ports, these industrial Ethernet
switches will intelligently route Ethernet messages only out the appropriate port. The major
benefits of this are increased bandwidth and speed, reduction or elimination of message
collisions, and deterministic performance when tied with real-time systems.
These industrial Ethernet switches support 10BaseT (10 Mbps), 100BaseT (100 Mbps) and
100BaseF (100 Mbps) fiber connections on the first 18 ports. This is accomplished by way
of pluggable SFP transceivers. The 4 Gigabit ports supports 10/100/1000BaseT
(10/100/1000 Mbps) on their RJ45 ports plus 100/1000BaseF (100/1000 mbps fiber) via the
two available SFP cages. All of the copper RJ45 ports will independently auto-sense the
speed/duplex and mdi/mdix-crossover allowing you to use straight or crossed-wired cables.
Fiber optic transceivers are available to make noise-immune multimode and singlemode
connections up to 120 km.
General
Specifications
These general specifications apply to these industrial Ethernet switches. Refer to Section 7
for complete technical specifications.
Number of ports
12 Ethernet ports
Ethernet Switch Type
Managed
Ethernet Switch Mode
Store and forward, wire-speed, non-blocking
Ethernet Protocols
All standard IEEE 802.3 protocols supported
Ports 1 through 8 SFP for pluggable transceivers of type 10/100 Mbps copper
RJ45 or 100 Mbps fiber optic
Ports 9 and 10
Gigabit combination ports with both RJ45 (10/100/1000) and
SFP slots for 100 or 1000 Mbps fiber transceivers
Ports 11 and 12
Gigabit SFP ports for 10/100/1000 Mbps connections
RJ45 Ports Operation
Auto-negotiation, auto-mdi/mdix-crossover and auto-polarity
Fiber Optic Type
Multimode, singlemode, long-haul or special application
Package style
DIN Rail Mounted