Octopus IP67 ethernet switches

Hirschmann Automation & Control has added three IP67 switches of the Octopus series to its range. These switches have 8 or 16 twisted-pair ports (100 BASE TX) or 14 twisted pair and two fibre-optic uplink ports (100 BASE FX). Data and current can be transmitted (max 12.95 W per remote terminal) via the same cable. Fast redundancy processes and various security mechanisms are also supported in addition to extensive management functions. The switches and all connected remote terminals can also be supplied with any input voltage from 24 V to 110 VDC via two separate IP67 voltage converters. This allows remote terminals to be supplied with power via PoE.

The twisted-pair ports are designed as 4-pin M12-D connectors and the optional fibre-optic uplinks are based on microFX technology. Eight ports each support Power over Ethernet in the so-called phantom power variant in which the energy is transferred on the data pairs of the cable.