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News Release from: Ethernet Direct | Subject: Dual homing technology
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 24 July 2007
Ethernet switches offer multiple
redundancy levels
As a network expands by connecting many devices together, Ethernet redundancy becomes more critical to ensure nonstop connection.
Ethernet Direct has released its dual homing technology in its industrial Ethernet switches Ethernet Direct offers a broad range of industrial managed Ethernet products designed with multi-levels of redundancy to ensure a reliable and secured industrial network
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 7 Aug 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Ethernet Direct offers X-Ring on Industrial managed Ethernet switches.
As a network expands by connecting many devices together, Ethernet redundancy becomes more critical to ensure nonstop connection.
The X-Ring proprietary protocol incorporates both a coupling ring and dual homing.
When there is more than one X-Ring group set up in a network, the dual homing feature can ensure two X-Ring groups with redundant back up when connected to a backbone switch and can be enabled in the switches to allow for standby links to the upper level switch.
Dual homing provides an advanced redundancy network solution by connecting switches running in different redundant protocols such as the IEEE802.1w Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol and X-Ring to extend the network redundant coverage.
Ethernet Direct industrial managed switches can set back-up masters in X-Ring to ensure the most secure network.
Redundancy is achieved by connecting two ports from two separate switches using the X-ring Ring protocol with two ports of managed switches using other redundancy protocol.
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