Outstanding 802.3bt PoE++ Solution for Hardened Environment

Complying with the IEEE 802.3bt Power over Ethernet Plus Plus technology, PLANET IGS-6325-8UP2S2X L3 Industrial Managed PoE++ Switch features eight 10/100/1000BASE-T 802.3bt PoE++ ports with each port powering up to 95 watts and two 100/1000BASE-X SFP interfaces in a rugged IP30 metal case for stable operation in heavy industrial demanding environments. It supports rich PoE operation modes including 90-watt 802.3bt type-4 PoE++ ports, 95-watt PoH (Power over HD-BASE-T) mode and 4-pair force mode to solve the incompatibility of non-standard 4-pair PoE PDs in the field. 

Being able to operate under wide temperature range from -40 to 75 degrees C, the IGS-6325 PoE++ Switch series can be placed in almost any difficult environment. The IGS-6325 PoE++ Switch series also allows either DIN rail or wall mounting for efficient use of cabinet space.

802.3bt PoE++ – 90~95-watt Power over 4-pair UTP Solution

As the IGS-6325 PoE++ Series adopts the IEEE 802.bt PoE++ standard and PoH technology, it is capable to source up to 95 watts of power by using all the four pairs of standard Cat5e/6 Ethernet cabling to deliver power and full-speed data to each remote PoE compliant powered device (PD). It possesses triple amount of power capability than the conventional 802.3at PoE+ and is an ideal solution to satisfy the growing demand for higher power consuming network PDs, such as:

• PoE PTZ speed dome cameras
• Network devices 
• Thin clients
• AIO (all-in-one) touch PCs, point of sale (POS) and information kiosks
• Remote digital signage displays
• PoE lightings

802.3bt PoE++ and Advanced PoE Power Output Mode Management

To meet the demand of various powered devices consuming stable PoE power, the IGS-6325 PoE++ Switch series provides five different PoE power output modes for selection.

• 90W 802.3bt PoE++ Power Output Mode (Pins 1, 2, 3, 6 + Pins 4, 5, 7, 8)
• 95W UPOE/PoH Power Output Mode (Pins 1, 2, 3, 6 + Pins 4, 5, 7, 8)
• 30W End-span PoE Power Output Mode (Pins 1, 2, 3, 6)
• 30W Mid-span PoE Power Output Mode (Pins 4, 5, 7, 8)
• 60W Force Power Output Mode (Pins 1, 2, 3, 6 + Pins 4, 5, 7, 8)

Convenient and Smart ONVIF Devices with Detection Feature

PLANET has newly developed an awesome feature -- ONVIF Support -- which is specifically designed for co-operating with video IP surveillances. From the IGS-6325 PoE++ Switch series GUI, clients just need one click to search and show all of the ONVIF devices via network application. 

In addition, clients can upload floor plans to the switch, allowing to locate surveillance devices for easier inspection and planning. Moreover, clients can get real-time surveillance’s information and online/offline status, and also allows cameras PoE reboot control from GUI.

Intelligent Alive Check for Powered Device

The IGS-6325 PoE++ Series can be configured to monitor connected PD’s status in real time via ping action. Once the PD stops working and responding, the IGS-6325 PoE++ Series will recycle the PoE port power and bring the PD back to work. It also greatly enhances the reliability in that the PoE port will reset the PD power, thus reducing administrator’s management burden.

PoE Schedule for Energy Saving

Under the trend of energy saving worldwide and contributing to environmental protection on the Earth, the IGS-6325 PoE++ Series can effectively control the power supply besides its capability of giving high watts power. The built-in “PoE schedule” function helps you to enable or disable PoE power feeding for each PoE port during specified time intervals and it is a powerful function to help SMBs or enterprises save power and money.

Scheduled Power Recycling

The IGS-6325 PoE++ Series allows each of the connected PoE IP cameras or PoE wireless access points to reboot at a specific time each week. Therefore, it will reduce the chance of IP camera or AP crash resulting from buffer overflow.

Layer 3 Routing Support

The IGS-6325 Series enables the administrator to conveniently boost network efficiency by configuring Layer 3 IPv4/IPv6 VLAN static routing manually, and the IPv4 OSPFv2 (Open Shortest Path First) settings automatically. The OSPF is an interior dynamic routing protocol for autonomous system based on link state. The protocol creates a database for link state by exchanging link states among Layer 3 switches, and then uses the Shortest Path First algorithm to generate a route table based on that database.

Redundant Ring, Fast Recovery for Critical Network Applications

The IGS-6325 Series supports redundant ring technology and features strong, rapid self-recovery capability to prevent interruptions and external intrusions. It incorporates advanced ITU-T G.8032 ERPS (Ethernet Ring Protection Switching) technology, Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1s MSTP), and redundant power input system into customer’s industrial automation network to enhance system reliability and uptime in harsh factory environments. In a certain simple Ring network, the recovery time of data link can be as fast as 10ms.

Network with Cybersecurity Helps Minimize Security Risks

The IGS-6325 Series comes with enhanced cybersecurity to fend off cyberthreats and cyberattacks. It supports SSHv2, TLS and SSL protocols to provide strong protection against advanced threats. Served as a key point to transmit data and offering over 95-watt PoE output to customer's critical equipment in a business network, the cybersecurity feature of the IGS-6325 Series protects the switch management and enhances the security of the mission-critical network without any extra deployment cost and effort.

Modbus TCP Provides Flexible Network Connectivity for Factory Automation

With the supported Modbus TCP/IP protocol, the IGS-6325 Series can easily integrate with SCADA systems, HMI systems and other data acquisition systems in factory floors. It enables administrators to remotely monitor the industrial Ethernet switch’s operating information, port information, communication status, and DI and DO status, thus easily achieving enhanced monitoring and maintenance of the entire factory.

1588 Time Protocol for Industrial Computing Networks

The IGS-6325 Series is ideal for telecom and Carrier Ethernet applications, supporting MEF service delivery and timing over packet solutions for IEEE 1588 and synchronous Ethernet.

SMTP/SNMP Trap Event Alert

The IGS-6325 Series provides event alert function to help to diagnose the abnormal device owing to whether or not there is a break of the network connection, or the rebooting response.

Effective Alarm Alert for Better Protection

The IGS-6325 Series supports a Fault Alarm feature which can alert the users when there is something wrong with the switches. With this ideal feature, the users would not have to waste time finding where the problem is. It will help to save time and human resource.

Digital Input and Digital Output for External Alarm

The IGS-6325 Series supports Digital Input and Digital Output on its front panel. This external alarm enables users to use Digital Input to detect and log external device status (such as door intrusion detector), and send event alarm to the administrators. The Digital Output could be used to alarm the administrators if the I IGS-6325 Series’ port shows link down, link up or power failure.

Robust Layer 2 Features

The IGS-6325 Series can be programmed for advanced Layer 2 switch management functions such as dynamic port link aggregation, 802.1Q tagged VLAN, Q-in-Q VLAN, private VLAN, Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP), Layer 2 to Layer 4 QoS, bandwidth control, IGMP snooping and MLD snooping. Via the aggregation of supporting ports, the IGS-6325 Series allows the operation of a high-speed trunk group that comes with multiple ports and supports fail-over as well.

Efficient Management

For efficient management, the IGS-6325 Series is equipped with console, Web and SNMP management interfaces. 

• With the built-in Web-based management interface, it offers an easy-to-use, platform-independent management and configuration facility. 
• For text-based management, it can be accessed via Telnet and the console port. 
• For standard-based monitor and management software, it offers SNMPv3 connection which encrypts the packet content at each session for secure remote management.

Powerful Network Security

The IGS-6325 Series offers comprehensive Layer 2 to Layer 4 Access Control List (ACL) for enforcing security to the edge. It can be used to restrict network access by denying packets based on source and destination IP address, TCP/UDP ports or defined typical network applications. Its protection mechanism also comprises 802.1X Port-based and MAC-based user and device authentication. With the private VLAN function, communication between edge ports can be prevented to ensure user privacy. 

Advanced IP Network Protection

The IGS-6325 Series also provides DHCP Snooping, IP Source Guard and Dynamic ARP Inspection functions to prevent IP snooping from attack and discard ARP packets with invalid MAC address. The network administrators can now construct highly-secure corporate networks with considerably less time and effort than before.

Flexible and Extendable Fiber Optic Ethernet Solution

With its additional 2-port 1000BASE-SX/LX SFP fiber optic Ethernet link capability, the administrator now can flexibly choose the suitable SFP transceiver according to the transmission distance or the transmission speed required to extend the network efficiently. The IGS-6325 Series provides broad bandwidth and powerful processing capacity. 

Intelligent SFP Diagnosis Mechanism

The IGS-6325 Series supports SFP-DDM (digital diagnostic monitor) function that greatly helps network administrator to easily monitor real-time parameters of the SFP transceivers, such as optical output power, optical input power, temperature, laser bias current, and transceiver supply voltage.