Ideal for use as either a fully managed fiber optic Ring Manager, or Ring Member, the N-TRON 7000 Series, gigabit capable, industrial Ethernet switches carry N-TRON’s exclusive N-Ring™ technology with detailed fault diagnostics, expanded ring size capacity, and ˜30ms ring healing. When using all N-TRON fully managed switches in a ring, a detailed ring map and fault location chart will be provided on the Ring Manager’s web browser and OPC Server to identify the health status of the ring. Up to 250 fully managed, or 50 unmanaged monitored N-TRON switches can participate in the N-Ring topology. In addition to N-Ring, the 7000 Series offers fully managed features such as IGMP Snooping, VLAN, QoS, Port Mirroring, Port Trunking, and 802.1D-2004 fast RSTP. N-TRON’s N-View OPC Server Software also comes standard on all 7000 Series Switches. N-View can be combined with popular HMI software packages to add network traffic monitoring, trending, and alarming to any application using N-TRON switches. For added speed and flexibility, our 7000 Series provides two optional pluggable SFP Gigabit LC style transceivers that can be installed in our factory at the time of purchase, or upgraded later in the field.