Moxa EDS-726 Receives iF Product Design Award

Release Date : 2005-12-16

Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 16, 2005—MOXA is pleased to announce that EDS-726 Gigabit Ethernet switch has been awarded the "iF Product Design Award 2006" for its user-friendly, modular design. The "iF Design Award" is one of the most prestigious and distinguished design competitions in the world. In fact, it is often referred to as the "design Oscars" by industries worldwide.
Nearly 2,000 products from 37 different countries were entered in theiF design competition for 2006, which culminated in a 3-day judging session at the Hannover Exhibition Center. Judges were chosen from anelite group of top international designers, giving end-users the assurance that the iF award represents a guarantee of out standing product quality. The theme of this year's competition was "Design, not Marketing," which reflects Moxa's own design philosophy of putting the needs of the end-user first.
According to Vincent Liu, chief product manager at MOXA, "Receiving such a prestigious award represents a big turning point for MOXA. We've had great success over the past several years with our high quality industrial Ethernet products, but we feel that the EDS-726 design is truly unique in that it gives end-users many high powered options that previously were not available."
About EDS-726
EDS-726 is a 26-port Gigabit Ethernet switch that meets the demands of industrial applications, but also leaves room to grow. EDS-726's modular convenience lets you add up to 2 Gigabit ports and 24 fast Ethernet ports in the same switch. The application-oriented design includes a tilted LED display for easy viewing, plus redundant and intelligent network management. EDS-726provides more flexibility, reliability, and application-oriented functions to meet the demands of any harsh industrial application.

Key Features:

• modular design for flexible combination with 26 copper and fiber ports
• 60 degree tilted LED display for ergonomic viewing of operating status
• Aluminum fin-shaped heat sink on real panel for quick heat dissipation
• Plug-able compact flash card simplifies backing up the configurations
• Gigabit Turbo Ring redundancy with recovery time < 300 ms at full load
• QoS, IGMP snooping/GMRP, VLAN, LACP, and SNMP V1/V2C/V3 supported