Planet IGS-4215-8UP4X

Planet IGS-4215-8UP4X – Robust Full PoE++ Power Solution Tailored for Harsh Environments

The Planet IGS-4215-8UP4X is PLANET’s latest Industrial-grade, DIN-rail L2+ Managed Gigabit PoE++ Switch, designed for heavy industrial environments. It features intelligent PoE functions, IPv6/IPv4 dual-stack management. Also a built-in L2+/L4 Gigabit switching engine, and Layer 3 static routing, enabling efficient inter-VLAN communication while maintaining cost-effectiveness.

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Featuring 8 10/100/1000BASE-T ports supporting 95-watt 802.3bt PoE++ and 4 10GBASE-X SFP+ fiber slots, the IGS-4215-8UP4X ensures unwavering, stable performance. Its power budget of 360 watts accommodates diverse PoE applications, and it operates in temperatures from -40 to 75°C, showcasing adaptability.

Enhancing versatility, the switch includes a USB Type-C console port for seamless management and resides in a rugged IP30 aluminum casing, guaranteeing durability and reliability in challenging industrial environments.

Cybersecurity Network Solution to Minimize Security Risks

The IGS-4215-8UP4X supports SSHv2 and TLSv1.3 protocols to provide strong protection against advanced threats. It includes a range of cybersecurity features such as DHCP Snooping, IP Source Guard. And also dynamic ARP Inspection Protection, RADIUS and TACACS+ user accounts management, SNMPv3 authentication, and so on to complement it as an all-security solution.

Modbus TCP Provides Flexible Network Connectivity for Factory Automation

The IGS-4215 10G Din-rail series supports the Modbus TCP protocol, allowing for easy integration with SCADA systems, HMI systems, and other data acquisition systems in factory floors. This enables administrators to remotely monitor the industrial Ethernet switch’s operating information, port information, communication status, and DI/DO status, thereby enhancing monitoring and maintenance of the entire factory.

 

Redundant Ring, Fast Recovery for Critical Network Applications

The IGS-4215-8UP4X supports redundant ring technology and features strong, rapid self-recovery capability to prevent interruptions and external intrusions. It incorporates advanced ITU-T G.8032 ERPS (Ethernet Ring Protection Switching) technology, Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1s MSTP) into customer’s network to enhance system reliability and uptime in various environments.

 

High Power and Full-speed Data Delivered over 4-pair UTP Cabling

The IGS-4215-8UP4X meets the standards of IEEE 802.bt PoE++ technology and has a total power capacity of 360 watts. This allows it to supply up to 95 watts of power to each remote PoE-compliant powered device (PD). This by using all four pairs of standard Cat5e/6 Ethernet cabling, ensuring high power and full-speed data delivery. Compared to the conventional 802.3at PoE+, it offers triple power capacity, making it the perfect solution for higher power consuming PDs, including:

• PoE PTZ speed dome cameras
• Network devices
• Thin clients
• AIO (all-in-one) touch PCs, point of sale (POS) and information kiosks
• Remote digital signage displays
• PoE lightings

Intelligent Powered Device Alive Check

The IGS-4215-8UP4X can be configured to monitor connected PD (powered device) status in real time via ping action. Once the PD stops working and responding, the IGS-4215-8UP4X will resume the PoE port power and bring the PD back to work. It will greatly enhance the network reliability through the PoE port resetting the PD’s power source and reducing the administrator’s management burden.

 

Scheduled Power Recycling

The IGS-4215-8UP4X allows each of the connected PoE IP cameras or PoE wireless access points to reboot at a specified time each week. Therefore, it will reduce the chance of IP camera or AP crash resulting from buffer overflow.

PoE Schedule for Energy Savings

Under the global trend of energy saving and contributing to environmental protection, the IGS-4215-8UP4X can effectively control the power supply. This besides its capability of giving high watts power. The “PoE schedule” function helps you enable or disable PoE power feeding for each PoE port during specified time intervals, which is a powerful function to help SMBs or enterprises save power and budget. It also increases security by powering off PDs that should not be in use during non-business hours.

802.3bt PoE++ Power and Ethernet Data Transmission Distance Extension

In „Extended“ operation mode, the IGS-4215-8UP4X functions on a per-port basis with a 10Mbps duplex operation. Remarkably, it can deliver a 40-watt PoE power output over a distance of up to 250 meters. With this surpassing the standard 100m limit on Ethernet UTP cables. This innovative feature offers a solution for extending the reach of PoE power, effectively eliminating the need for additional Ethernet cable installations and resulting in cost savings

Effective Alarm Alert for Better Protection

The IGS-4215-8UP4X incorporates a Fault Alarm feature that promptly notifies users of any issues with the switches. This valuable feature eliminates the need for users to spend time locating the problem. This results in significant time and human resource savings.

Digital Input and Digital Output for External Alarm

The Planet IGS-4215-8UP4X supports Digital Input and Digital Output through a terminal block located on its upper panel. This external alarm enables users to use Digital Input to detect and log external device status (such as door intrusion detector), and send event alarm to the administrators. The Digital Output could be used to alarm the administrators if the IGS-4215-8UP4X port shows link down, link up or power failure.

Environmentally Hardened Design

With the IP30 aluminum industrial case, the IGS-4215-8UP4X provides a high level of immunity against electromagnetic interference. Also against heavy electrical surges which are usually found on plant floors. And also in curb-side traffic control cabinets without air conditioner. Being able to operate under the temperature range from -40 to 75 °C, the IGS-4215-8UP4X can be placed in almost any difficult environment.

 

Robust Protection

The IGS-4215-8UP4X provides contact discharge of ±6KV DC and air discharge of ±8KV DC for Ethernet ESD protection. It also supports ±4KV surge immunity to improve product stability and protects users’ networks from devastating ESD attacks, making sure the flow of operation does not fluctuate.

 

Layer 3 IPv4 and IPv6 VLAN Routing for Secure and Flexible Management

The IGS-4215 10G Din-rail switch delivers high-performance transmission and advanced Layer 2 and Layer 4 functionalities. This along with Layer 3 IPv4 and IPv6 static routing. This capability enables efficient routing between different VLANs and IP addresses. It is offering a secure, flexible, and straightforward networking solution for diverse applications.

 

 

Robust Layer 2 Features

The Planet IGS-4215-8UP4X can be programmed for advanced switch management functions such as dynamic port link aggregation. And 802.1Q VLAN, Q-in-Q VLAN, Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP), loop and BPDU guard, IGMP snooping, and MLD snooping. With dynamic port link aggregation, the switch enables the creation of a high-speed trunk. For instance, it can combine four 10G ports, creating a resilient 40Gbps connection with fail-over support. Additionally, the inclusion of Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) enhances Layer 2 functionality by providing essential information about neighboring devices within the local broadcast domain.

Efficient Traffic Control

The IGS-4215-8UP4X is loaded with robust QoS features and powerful traffic management to enhance services to business-class data, voice, and video solutions. The functionality includes broadcast/multicast/unicast storm control, per port bandwidth control, 802.1p/CoS/IP DSCP QoS priority and remarking. It guarantees the best performance in VoIP and video stream transmission, and empowers the enterprises to take full advantage of the limited network resources.

 

Enhancing Network Security

PLANET IGS-4215-8UP4X offers comprehensive IPv4/IPv6 Layer 2 to Layer 4 Access Control List (ACL) for enforcing security to the edge. It can be used to restrict network access by denying packets based on source and destination IP address, TCP/UDP ports or defined typical network applications. With the protected port function, communication between edge ports can be prevented to guarantee user privacy. Furthermore, Port security function allows to limit the number of network devices on a given port. The network administrators can now construct highly-secure corporate networks with considerably less time and effort than before.

 

Ensuring Network Integrity

The IGS-4215-8UP4X also provides DHCP Snooping, IP Source Guard and Dynamic ARP Inspection functions to prevent IP snooping from attack and discard ARP packets with invalid MAC address. The network administrators can now construct highly-secure corporate networks with considerably less time and effort than before.

 

User-friendly and Secure Management 

For efficient management, the IGS-4215-8UP4X is equipped with Command line, Web and SNMP management interfaces.

• With the built-in Web-based management interface, the IGS-4215-8UP4X offers an easy-to-use, platform-independent management and configuration facility.
• For text-based command line management, it can be accessed via Telnet, SSH and the console port.
• By supporting the standard SNMP protocol, the switch can be managed via any SNMP-based management software.

Moreover, the IGS-4215-8UP4X offers secure remote management. It does this by supporting SSHv2, TLSv1.3 and SNMP v3 connections which encrypt the packet content at each session.

 

Flexible Long-distance Extension Solution

The emergence of 10G Ethernet marks a significant advancement in Ethernet technology. The IGS-4215-8UP4X is a powerful networking device that offers four 10G SFP+ slots capable of supporting three different speeds. These slots can operate at 10GBASE-SR/LR or 1G/2.5GBASE-SX/LX backwards. This is providing administrators with flexibility in choosing the most suitable SFP/SFP+ transceiver. They can base it on the required transmission distance and speed. With ample bandwidth and robust processing capacity, the IGS-4215-8UP4X provides an efficient solution for administrators seeking to enhance their network infrastructure.

 

Intelligent SFP Diagnosis Mechanism

The Planet IGS-4215-8UP4X supports SFP-DDM (Digital Diagnostic Monitor) function that can easily monitor real-time parameters of the SFP for the network administrator, such as optical output power, optical input power, temperature, laser bias current, and transceiver supply voltage.

Remote Management Solution

PLANET’s Universal Network Management System (UNI-NMS) and CloudViewerPro app provide robust support for IT staff in effectively managing and monitoring all network devices, including the IGS-4215 series, from remote locations. Tailored for deployment in both enterprises and industries where the IGS-4215 series is utilized remotely, these systems enable the identification of bugs or faulty conditions without the need for on-site visits. With UNI-NMS or the CloudViewerPro app, businesses of all types can now be swiftly and efficiently managed through a unified platform, streamlining operational oversight.

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