Helmholz
Support Profinet and Gigabit Ethernet
With the Flextra Profinet switch from Helmholz, users can decide for themselves which of the 16 RJ45 ports are used for Profinet and which for Gigabit Ethernet.
According to Helmholz, the vertical cable entry makes the switch suitable for even the smallest control cabinets and sub-distribution boards. The Profinet cables are routed directly from the switch into the cable duct. An LED display on the front of the switch provides status and diagnostic information. The switch is also equipped with 100 Mbit/s and 1 Gbit/s ports. This makes it suitable for Profinet traffic as well as for communication between control elements and various machines. The managed switch can distinguish whether a telegram is a web request, an FTP file transfer, a media stream or a Profinet telegram.
In addition to Profinet, 'Flextra' supports management functions such as MRP (ring redundancy), VLAN (virtual LANs), SNMP, port mirroring, QoS/CoS mapping, SNTP and extensive statistics.
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