Managed Switch Features Enhance Your Network Performance

Enhance Your Performance

Contemporary Controls has created the following tutorials on how to enhance the performance of your network with managed switches. There are nine highlighted features, each of which effect the speed of your network.

IGMP Snooping: Watch the Tutorial

Snooping
  • Improve Ethernet/IP traffic on your network
  • Automatically Controls multicast traffic
  • Minimizes unneeded multicast traffic


Rate Limiting: Watch the Tutorial

Rate Limiting
  • Set a maximum bandwidth for each port
  • Prevent unnecessary communication traffic from overwhelming devices


Virtual Local Area Networks (VLAN): Watch the Tutorial

VLAN
  • Isolate traffic between groups of ports
  • Control access to the various VLAN groups
  • Allow devices that need to communicate to each other the maximum bandwidth


Quality of Service (QoS): Watch the Tutorial

QoS
  • Allow "high priority" messages quick throughput
  • Define message importance


Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP): Watch the Tutorial

Port Security
  • Monitor switch port parameters
  • Allows easy access to switch information for HMI, SCADA and other applications


Port Security: Watch the Tutorial

Port Security
  • Control access to end devices


Port Mirroring: Watch the Tutorial

Port Mirror
  • Provides message troubleshooting access
  • Allows messages to be monitored for message content


RapidRing® Redundancy: Watch the Tutorial

Rapid Ring Example
  • Allows switched networks to be wired in a ring utilizing fiber or copper.
  • Any break in the ring will be recovered in less than 300ms (with up to 20 switches).
  • Relay contacts, flashing LEDs and SNMP traps help to quickly identify broken links.
  • Supports dual ring structures.

    Read the info sheet for more information.


Trunking Redundancy: Watch the Tutorial

trunking example
  • Any break in the trunk will be recovered in less than 10ms.
  • Relay contacts, flashing LEDs and SNMP traps help to quickly identify the broken links.
  • Trunking also provides more bandwidth between switches

    Read the info sheet for more information.