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Industrial Ethernet Technology
The growing importance of Ethernet has extended to the factory
floor and industrial environments, where things have become
too harsh for typical commercial-grade networking equipment.
VOLKTEK has created an Industrial Series of Switches and
interconnecting devices specifically for the purpose of extending
Ethernet to the factory floor and industrial environments. All of
our Industrial Series devices are delivered in a rugged,
hardened case and with components capable of withstanding a
high degree of vibration and shock. These devices also operate
well in temperatures as high as 70°C.
Not an ordinary office switch by any means, the INS-801 is
engineered and designed specifically for the harsh, industrial-
type environments commonly encountered in heavy industry.
With its redundant DC power inputs and high-performance
components, the INS-801 is perfectly suited for the industrial
Ethernet.
Switching Technology
One way to push the limits of Ethernet technology, is the
development of switching technology. A switch bridges Ethernet
packets at the MAC address level of the Ethernet protocol that
are transmitted between connected Ethernet or Fast Ethernet
LAN segments.
Switching is a cost-effective way of increasing the total network
capacity available to users on a local area network. A switch
increases capacity and decreases network loading by dividing a
local area network into different
segments
which don’t compete
with each other for network transmission capacity.
