First Serial/Ethernet
Device Server with Advanced Ring Redundancy
at the Device Level
Device level communication networks for industrial automation are very critical since they are used to control and monitor device processes. A significant part of this type of communication depends on ring redundancy at the device level, which is designed to provide fast network fault detection and reconfiguration in order to support the most demanding control applications.
The NPort®
S8000 series is designed to connect
both serial and Ethernet devices. More importantly,
ring redundancy is made possible through
standard STP/RSTP or Moxa’s proprietary
Turbo Ring / Turbo Ring 2 redundancy function
to achieve the highest possible network
reliability.
Simplify Industrial Network Connectivity
The NPort® S8000 is
an integrated full function device server
and industrial switch that can connect to
both serial and Ethernet devices at the
same time. The NPort®
S8000 series can dramatically reduce
engineers' development and maintenance effort,
and reduce the amount of wiring that your
device network needs.
Complete Serial Device Server Functions
The NPort®
S8000 supports the complete array of
NPort® 5000 series device server functions,
and allows you to network your existing
serial devices by connecting up to 4 serial
devices, with only basic configuration.
Data from any of the serial devices can
be transmitted through any of the 5 Ethernet
ports, and data transmission between the
serial and Ethernet interfaces is bidirectional.
Full-function Managed Ethernet Switch
The NPort®
S8000 has a built-in full-function managed
Ethernet switch that supports QoS, IGMP-snooping/GMRP,
VLAN, Port Trunking, SNMPv1/v2c/v3, and
IEEE 802.1X, allowing you to handle virtually
any kind of application. Ethernet redundancy,
which is used to increase the reliability
and availability of your industrial Ethernet
network, is provided by Moxa's own Turbo
Ring® technology (recovery time < 20
ms) or RSTP/STP (IEEE 802.1w/D).
Couple Several Turbo
Rings for Distributed Applications
It may be inconvenient
to use one large ring for redundancy if
your network devices are remote and spread
out. The
NPort® S8000's "Ring Coupling"
feature solves this problem by connecting
distributed devices into smaller, more manageable
Turbo Rings that can still communicate with
each other without a control line.
