Moxa's EDS-508 Series Wins 2004 Control Engineering Editors' Choice Award

Release Date : 2005-3-10

Control Engineering— a magazine for the global automation, control, and instrumentation market —recently announced that Moxa Technologies has been granted a 2004 Control Engineering Editor's Choice Award for the EtherDevice ^TM EDS-508 Series.

Atthe end of each year, Control Engineering's editors select the Editors' Choice Award winners based on the criteria of service to the industry,technological advancement, and marketing impact. The Moxa EDS-508 managed Ethernet Switch, an excellent innovation in the network and communication product category, is one of only 40 winners out of the hundreds of new products featured in Control Engineering in 2004. The next phase of the 18 ^th annual Editors' Choice Award is for Control Engineering's subscribers to choose the best product of each of eight different categories. Each winner will receive one of eight Engineers' Choice Awards.

EDS-508 is an 8-port rugged Ethernet Switch designed for harsh industrial environments. The switch provides a wide range of intelligent network management features, such as a redundant Turbo Ring (recovery time less than 300 milliseconds), IGMP Snooping, VLAN/GVRP, QoS , and e-mail warning by exception. The switch's wide operating temperature range of -40 to 75 ^o C ensures that your Industrial Ethernet will be suitable for most critical environments.

The Moxa EtherDevice ^TM EDS-508 Series, one of the most significant innovations featured by Control Engineering in 2004, is a valuable and affordable networking solution for the Industrial Automation field.