•  
• EDN Europe MAGAZINE
•  
• Free SUBSCRIPTION
• Subscription Renewal
• View Media Kit

• EDN
• EDN Australia
• EDN Asia
• EDN China
• EDN Japan

Industrial Ethernet network management software solution

Moxa has introduced the Turbo Chain network management software for Industrial Ethernet networks. Turbo Chain is a layer 2 protocol that provides recovery of the network communication in case of a single switch failure, or a single link failure between switches. Its recovery time is less than 20ms with 250 switches in one chain. It offers flexible network topologies and co-works with RSTP. The main benefit of Turbo Chain is the high availability through a fast recovery time, which goes along with a standard interoperability approach that protects existing investments. Sub-system expansion becomes easy and reduces installation costs while increasing redundancy without any network modification. Turbo chain also provides a scalable solution for I/O device redundancy as it eliminates switch single point of failure, increases I/O device network redundancy, reduces cabling costs and offers a unified device switch design.

The company has packed the variety of Turbo Chain functions into a new firmware called Turbo Pack with which customers can directly upgrade the firmware into existing switches without any hardware modification. Turbo Pack is a redundant technology that allows flexible topologies, easy network extensions, standard interoperability and fast recovery times. The Turbo Pack offers redundant network with Moxa Turbo Ring protocol with less than 20ms recovery time; STP/RSTP; port trunking; Turbo Chain and IPv6 (& IPv4 = dual stack). Reliable management is provided with HTTPS/SSL; IEEE 802.1X; port lock; SNMP Inform; and SSH. Optimized performance is offered with QoS; rate limiting; VLAN; IGMP snooping; LLDP; DHCP Option 82; IEEE 1588 PTP; Modbus/TCP; SSH; and Firefox web browser. The Turbo Pack also offers easy maintenance with SNMP; RMON; auto email warning; and user friendly GUI.