Product Guide 2012 - Lantech Communications Global Inc

Pro-Ring SystemFor Ethernet, network redundancy means a network hardware link down or disconnection cable will notinterrupt communications. Also, to achieve network redundancy, one must use a managed switch, sinceadvanced traffic management is required to prevent "looping" of data packets.Where an interruption of a few seconds is acceptable in the office, it’s an eternity for most manufacturingenvironments or other mission-critical networks. A communication gap of a few seconds or more couldcause loss of critical data or worse yet -- system shutdown.Common enterprise technologies like Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) generally take between 2 to 10seconds to recover after a fault, and older technologies like Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) could take evenlonger -- 30 to 60 seconds.Pro-Ring SystemPro-Ring system is a proprietary protocol, for applications where a ring architecture is desired (mostmanufacturing or other mission-critical projects) that uses a pulling scheme to detect whenever a cablebreak or link fault occurs, it will automatically find a backup path in under 10 milliseconds for networks of upto 250 Lantech switches.As a result, Pro-Ring system is very important in applications where downtime is expensive.Lantech new Pro-Ring II system eliminates the need to manually set ring master and evolves comprehensiveredundant ring architectures.X-Ring ApplicationBasic Pro-Ring system is X-Ring.Data collect serverEnterprise SwitchHuman Management InterfacePro-RingBackup pathPro-RingR.T. < 10msField ManagementIndustrial SwitchIndustrial SwitchDistribute I/O control systemProgrammable logic controllerField Automatic deviceSerial Device ServerField Automatic deviceP15