Advantech EKI-3000 series industrial ethernet switches

Advantech EKI-3000 series industrial unmanaged switches are claimed to be the first to market with dedicated priority ports and offer up to 60% reduction in power consumption and smart diagnostics. The switches support gigabit data transmission, making them suitable for a range of industrial automation functions.

Priority ports prioritise the traffic coming over the ports and delay data that is less immediately necessary over the remaining ports. This can be useful in high bandwidth applications such as video streaming where latency could cause problems.

In energy-sensitive applications where power consumption is a factor, these switches come with advanced power-saving functions that save up to 60% on power consumption by shutting down ports that have no link and budgeting power based on the length of the ethernet cable. This is part of the IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Standard.

The switches are available with 5- or 8-port ethernet switches in both 10/100 and gigabit versions. For applications that do not require the benefits of gigabit ethernet but still require priority ports, energy saving and quick diagnostics, Advantech has available the EKI-3525 and EKI-3528 models which have 10/100 Mbps ports.