Benefits

•  Turn off unused ports to help secure the network.

•  Use the potential free-fault relay contact to supervise redundant power status

or any port’s link status without management software.

•  During periods of heavy traffic the flow control mechanism – which acts as an

overload protection for the device – holds off additional traffic from the network 

and ensures that no data packets are lost.

•  Activate Broadcast and/or Multicast Storm protection to limit traffic on the ports

when Broadcast or Multicast data packets flood the device.

•  Enable or disable the transmission of large data packets (jumbo frames) to

increase network efficiency.

•  Eliminate duplex mismatch errors by matching Auto-Negotiation, Speed and

Duplex Mode parameters to the end device settings.

•  Use the Quality of Service function to prevent time-critical data traffic (language,

video or real-time data) from being disrupted by less time-critical data traffic during

periods of heavy traffic. By enabling this feature the switches can be applied in PROFINET

conformance class A applications.

•  Regulate energy efficiency depending on network traffic through the Energy Efficient

Ethernet standard. Save energy by operating the physical layer of a link in low power

mode when there is no traffic to send.