Top 5 Reasons for using RuggedCom on your Factory Floor

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	Exceeds the IEC 6100-6-2 (1999) Standard:
	"Electromagnetic Immunity for Industrial Environments"
	Zero - Packet - Loss™ technology under EMI stress!
	"No communications packets are lost during application of EMI type tests" more >
	Wide Array of Power Supply Options:
	"88Vdc to 300Vdc or 85Vac-264Vac, Individually configurable allowing for a variety of combinations"
	Extended Temperature Range: -40 to 85 Degrees C!
	"No rotating mechanical parts (i.e. No Fans!) ensuring the highest reliability"
	Advanced Layer 2 functions for real-time control:
	IEEE 802.1w-Rapid Spanning Tree for fault tolerant loop architectures IEEE 802.1p-Priority Queuing for high priority real-time control messages IEEE 802.1Q-VLAN (Virtual LAN) for isolating real-time traffic

RuggedCom Documentation:
	Zero-Packet-Loss™ in the Substation This paper explores the emerging trends of using the network to perform mission critical real-time control applications, the new IEC and IEEE standards for communications systems and networking equipment in the substation, and the reasons/needs for Zero-Packet-Loss™ in the substation.

	A Comparison of Dispersed Topologies for Ethernet The trend for automation and control networks in various industries is to use Ethernet as the physical layer. This leverages a vast array of both networking equipment and end devices. However, deploying a real-time control Ethernet network in a geographically dispersed area has a unique set of challenges. When the distance between end stations is many kilometers, the network is still logically a LAN, but physically is anything but local. Cabling costs can be significant in such a network; choosing a topology that minimizes these costs yet provides for a robust, fault tolerant network is more difficult. This paper compares several different topologies that address these needs.