It is well-suited for any application in which a fully managed switch is required and exposure to liquids and excessive dirt and dust must be tolerated. The switch provides eight 10/100BaseTX M12 D-Coded copper ports and is fully managed. It comes standard with IGMP Snooping, VLAN, QoS, Trunking, Port Mirroring, RSTP, DHCP Client, and the vendor’s N-Ring Technology. For ease of configuration and monitoring, the switch also provides Web browser management and N-View OLE for Process Control Server Software. The software can be combined with HMI software packages to add network traffic monitoring, trending and alarming to any application using the vendor’s switches. SNMP is also available for switch link and status monitoring.N-Tron Corp.www.n-tron.com251.342.2164