Standards compliance. Network components are compliant

with standards such as IEEE, CE, and CSA.

Scalable in small increments. You can expand the system

readily and economically by adding hardware incrementally

to your system. Just plug another CSLS into the LSN and it is

recognized by the system. Online addition of new CSLSs will

not interrupt your process.

Fully redundant communications. The safety networks are

fully redundant communication networks. The carriers for all

nodes have redundant safety network ports for communication

with primary and secondary network connections.

Port mirroring functionality. Port Mirroring can be

configured on the NextGen Safety Network Switches

either with an “administrator” role or a “engineer” role.

These switches have the capability to mirror the traffic of

several source ports, in a read only manner, to a destination port (probe port).