N-TRON’s 700 Series Industrial Ethernet switches offer advancedmanagement and monitoring features, industrially hardened construction, and a space saving package allat a very affordable price. The 708TX Series provides eight RJ-45 copper ports, while the 708FX2provides six RJ-45 copper ports and two 100BaseFX fiber ports.The 700 Series switches are fully managed and come standard with: IGMP Snooping, VLAN, QoS,Trunking, Port Mirroring, RSTP, DHCP, and N-TRON’s N-Ring Technology. For ease of configurationand monitoring, the 700 Series also offers Web Browser management and N-View™ OLE for ProcessControl Server Software. The N-TRON N-View OPC Server Software can be combined with popularHMI software packages to add network traffic monitoring, trending, and alarming to any applicationusing N-TRON switches. In addition, SNMP, COM port interfaces are available for switch link and statusmonitoring.N-TRON’s 700 Series switches are ideal candidates for use as Ring Managers. These switches with NTRON’sexclusive N-Ring technology offer expanded ring size capacity, detailed fault diagnostics, and astandard heal time of ˜30ms.The 700 Series configured as a Ring Manager periodically checks the health of the Ring via packets. Ifthe Ring Manager stops receiving the health check packets, it converts the Ring to a linear bus topologywithin ˜30ms.In addition to standard Ring Manager protocol, when using all N-TRON fully managed switches in thering, a detailed ring map and fault location chart will be shown on the Ring Manager’s web browser asPage 2well as N-View OPC Server to identify the health status of the ring. A configurable Alarm Contactallows notification for up to 6 different conditions.N-TRON’s N-Ring technology offers expanded ring size capacity for a network with up to 250fully managed N-TRON switches participating in the N-Ring topologies.* Eight 10/100BaseTX RJ-45 Ports * Ideal for use as Ring Manager with ˜30ms Ring Healing * -40ºC to 85ºC Operating Temperature * ESD and Surge Protection Diodes on all Ports * Auto Sensing 10/100BaseTX, Duplex, and MDIX * Store-and-forward Technology * Rugged Industrial DIN-Rail Enclosure * Redundant Power Inputs (10-30 VDC) * 8000 MAC Addresses * Configurable Alarm Contact * Configurable Bi-Color Fault Status LED