The PLANET Managed Industrial Ethernet Switch is substation hardened and fully managed Ethernet Switches specifically designed to operate reliably in electrically and environmentally harsh environments. It provides IEEE 1613 Class 2 error-free communications performance under EMI stress. The feature of operating temperature range from 0 to 60 Degree C allows to the switch be placed in almost any location. The Switch also provides a wide range of power supply options suitable for multiple industries and for worldwide operability.

The management Switch models offer advanced Layer 2 networking features and network management via the Web interface. The feature of the switching is the performance of its IEEE 802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) used for implementing fault tolerant ring and mesh network architectures. The protocol has been optimized to support ring and fault recovery times in the order of less than 300ms.

The management function provides improved system reliability and advanced networking features making it ideally suited for creating Ethernet networks for mission-critical, real-time, control applications.