General Features and Benefits Substation Reference Book
Layer 3 switching functionality to divide a large network into hierarchical subnets and allow data and information to communicate across networks
Command Line Interface (CLI) for quickly configuring major managed functions
Software-based IEEE 1588v2 PTP (Precision Time Protocol) for precise time synchronization of networks
DHCP Option 82 for IP address assignment with different policies
EtherNet/IP and Modbus/TCP industrial Ethernet protocols supported
Turbo Ring and Turbo Chain (recovery time < 20 ms @ 250 switches),
RSTP/STP, and MSTP for network redundancy
Supports multicast routing protocols PIM-DM/DVMRP
Supports advanced VLAN capability with Q-in-Q tagging
IGMP snooping and GMRP for filtering multicast traffic from industrial Ethernet protocols
IEEE 802.3ad, LACP for optimum bandwidth utilization
Bandwidth management prevents unpredictable network status
Multi-port mirroring for online debugging
Automatic warning by exception through email, relay output
RMON for efficient network monitoring and proactive capability
Automatic recovery of connected device’s IP addresses
Line-swap fast recovery
Configurable by Web browser, Telnet/Serial console, CLI Windows utility, and ABC-01 automatic backup configurator