TES-3082GT-M12-BP1 User’s Manual
ORing Industrial Networking Corp
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3.3
Hardware Bypass
Let ORing introduce the natural yet critically important network redundancy –
Hardware Bypass, which effectively avoids single-point power failure in daisy chain
topology or multi-point power failures in ring topology. For conventional wired
Ethernet network, there is the Cooper Interface Bypass. An ORing Ethernet switch
with Cooper Interface Bypass would have 2 of the Ethernet ports designated as the
bypass path. Under normal circumstances, these ports would function just like any
other port. However, when power failure occurs, the internal bypass circuit connects
these 2 ports together, effectively letting the network ride through this Ethernet
switch that has lost power to operate. An example of an ORing switch with Cooper
Interface Bypass is TES-3080-M12-BP2.
