Planet WGS-5215-16UP4X

Wall-mounted PoE++ Managed Switch with Advanced L2+ Switching and Security

The PLANET WGS-5215-16UP4X is an industrial wall-mount PoE++ managed switch designed to enhance network reliability in industrial environments. It features PLANET’s intelligent PoE management functions that maximize system availability and operational efficiency. The switch provides IPv6/IPv4 dual-stack management. Also built-in Layer 3 static routing capability, and a powerful L2+/L4 Gigabit switching engine along with 16 10/100/1000BASE-T ports featuring 95-watt PoE, plus four additional 100/1000/2500/10GBASE-X SFP ports.

With a total power budget of up to 720 watts for various PoE applications, high networking speed, and an operating temperature range from -40 to 75 degrees C in a compact yet rugged IP30 metal housing, the WGS-5215-16UP4X is an ideal solution for demanding and harsh environments.

The following pictures illustrate how user-friendly the WGS-5215-16UP4X is in terms of installation and operation.

 

 

Innovative Wall-mount Installation

The WGS-5215-16UP4X is specially designed to be installed in a narrow environment, such as wall enclosure or electric box. It’s compact, flat and wall-mounted design fits easily in any space-limited location. The WGS-5215-16UP4X can be installed by fixed wall mounting, thereby making its usability more flexible.

 

 

10Gbps Fiber Ports and Multiple Dual Speed Ports Deliver High-speed Networking

Featuring a 10Gbps uplink, the WGS-5215-16UP4X excels in connecting to both industrial backbones and high-capacity servers, demonstrating unmatched performance. It operates flawlessly across an extensive temperature range. It also guarantees a non-blocking switch fabric and delivers astonishing wire-speed throughput of up to 112Gbps. The 10G fiber port serves as a backbone for high-bandwidth applications, such as video streaming, cloud computing, and virtualization, ensuring seamless and swift data transmission. This transformative capability simplifies the process of industrial LAN upgrades, efficiently catering to escalating bandwidth requirements.

 

802.3bt PoE++ 90~95-watt Power over 4-pair UTP Solution

As the WGS-5215-16UP4X adopts the IEEE 802.bt PoE++ standard, it is capable to source up to 95 watts of power by using all the four pairs of standard Cat5e/6 Ethernet cabling to deliver power and full-speed data to each remote PoE compliant powered device (PD). It possesses triple amount of power capability than the conventional 802.3at PoE+ and is an ideal solution to satisfy the growing demand for higher power consuming network PDs, such as:

• 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

 

 

Cybersecurity Network Solution to Minimize Security Risks

The WGS-5215-16UP4X 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, dynamic ARP Inspection Protection, RADIUS and TACACS+ user accounts management, SNMPv3 authentication, and so on to complement it as an all-security solution.

 

 

Redundant Ring, Fast Recovery for Critical Network Applications

The WGS-5215-16UP4X 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), and dual power input system into customer’s industrial automation network to enhance system reliability and uptime in harsh factory environments.

 

Convenient and Smart ONVIF Devices with Detection Feature

PLANET has newly developed an awesome feature — ONVIF Support — which is specifically designed for co-operating with video IP surveillances. From the WGS-5215-16UP4X’s GUI, you just need one click to search. And then show all of the ONVIF devices via network application. In addition, you can upload floor images to the switch and can remotely monitor or inspect an assembly line. Moreover, you can get real-time surveillance information and online/offline status; the PoE reboot can be controlled from the GUI.

 

Built-in Unique PoE Functions for Powered Devices Management

As it is the managed PoE++ switch for surveillance, wireless and VoIP networks, the WGS-5215-16UP4X features the following special PoE management functions:

• PD alive check
• Scheduled power recycling
• PoE schedule
• PoE usage monitoring
• PoE extension

 

Intelligent Powered Device Alive Check

The WGS-5215-16UP4X can be configured to monitor connected PD status in real time via ping action. Once the PD stops working and responding, the WGS-5215-16UP4X will resume the PoE port power. Then it will 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 administrator management burden.

 

 

Scheduled Power Recycling

The WGS-5215-16UP4X allows each of the connected PoE IP cameras or PoE wireless access points to reboot at a specific 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 trend of energy savings worldwide and contributing to environmental protection, the WGS-5215-16UP4X can effectively control the power supply besides its capability of giving high watts power. The “PoE schedule” function helps you to enable or disable PoE power feeding for each PoE port during specified time intervals and it 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 the “Extend” operation mode, the WGS-5215-16UP4X, using a 54V DC power input, operates on a per-port basis at 10Mbps duplex operation but can support 53-watt PoE power output over a distance of up to 250 meters, overcoming the 100m limit on Ethernet UTP cable. With this brand-new feature, the WGS-5215-16UP4X provides an additional solution for 802.3at/af PoE distance extension, thus saving the cost of Ethernet cable installation.

 

 

Innovative Wall-mount Installation with PLANET Flat-type Housing

The WGS-5215-16UP4X features PLANET’s innovative Flat-type housing, specially designed for easy installation in narrow spaces such as wall enclosures, control cabinets, or flat junction boxes. Its compact, flat, and wall-mounted design fits perfectly in space-limited environments, while the user-friendly “Front Access” layout allows convenient installation, cable wiring, LED monitoring, and maintenance. The WGS-5215-16UP4X can be securely mounted on any wall or cabinet surface, providing flexible and efficient deployment options for various industrial and enterprise applications.

 

 

Environmentally Hardened Design

With IP30 flat yet rugged metal housing protection, the WGS-5215-16UP4X provides a high level of immunity against electromagnetic interference and heavy electrical surges, which are usually found on plant floors or in curb-side traffic control cabinets without air conditioning. The WGS-5215-16UP4X can operate in a temperature range of -40 to 75 degrees C, allowing the series to be deployed in almost any harsh environment.

 

 

IPv6/IPv4 Dual Stack Management

Supporting both IPv6 and IPv4 protocols, the WGS-5215-16UP4X helps the SMBs to step in the IPv6 era with the lowest investment. As its network facilities need not be replaced or overhauled if the IPv6 FTTx edge network is set up.

 

 

SMTP/SNMP Trap Event Alert

The WGS-5215-16UP4X provides event alert function. This to help to diagnose the abnormal device owing to whether or not there is a break of the network connection. Or the rebooting response.

 

 

Effective Alarm Alert for Better Protection

The WGS-5215-16UP4X supports a Fault Alarm feature which can alert the users when there is something wrong with the switches. With this ideal feature, the users would not have to waste time finding where the problem is. It will help to save time and human resource.

 

 

Digital Input and Digital Output for External Alarm

The WGS-5215-16UP4X supports Digital Input and Digital Output 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). Also to send event alarm to the administrators. The Digital Output could be used to alarm the administrators. This if the WGS-5215-16UP4X port shows link down, link up or power failure.

 

 

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

The WGS-5215-16UP4X not only provide ultra high transmission performance, and excellent Layer 2 and Layer 4 technologies. Also Layer 3 IPv4 and IPv6 VLAN routing feature which allows to cross over different VLANs. And also over different IP addresses for the purpose of having a highly-secure, flexibly-managed and simple networking application.

 

Robust Layer 2 Features

The WGS-5215-16UP4X can be programmed for advanced switch management functions. For example dynamic port link aggregation, Q-in-Q VLAN, private VLAN, Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol, Layer 2 to Layer 4 QoS, bandwidth control and IGMP snooping. The WGS-5215-16UP4X provides 802.1Q tagged VLAN, and the VLAN groups allowed will be maximally up to 2K. Via aggregation of supporting ports, the WGS-5215-16UP4X allows the operation of a high-speed trunk combining multiple ports. It enables a maximum of up to 8 trunk groups with 16 ports per trunk group, and supports fail-over as well.

 

Efficient Traffic Control

The WGS-5215-16UP4X is loaded with robust QoS features and powerful traffic management. This 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.

 

Efficient Management

For efficient management, the WGS-5215-16UP4X is equipped with Command line, Web and SNMP management interfaces.

• With the built-in Web-based management interface, the WGS-5215-16UP4X offers an easy-to-use, platform-independent management and configuration facility.
• For text-based management, it can be accessed via Telnet and the USB type C console port.
• For standard-based monitor and management software, it offers SNMPv3 connection which encrypts the packet content at each session for secure remote management.

 

 

PLANET CloudNMS – Cloud-Based Universal Network Management

PLANET’s CloudNMS platform and mobile app empower IT staff to remotely manage all network devices and Powered Devices (PDs) in real time. Designed for enterprises and industries, CloudNMS minimizes the need for on-site troubleshooting by providing centralized monitoring, fault detection, and instant alerts.

The WGS-5215-16UP4X also supports CloudNMS, enabling businesses to manage diverse network deployments more efficiently, securely, and intelligently—all from a single cloud-based platform.

 

 

Powerful Security from Layer 2 to Layer 4

The WGS-5215-16UP4X offers comprehensive 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. Also based on TCP/UDP ports or defined typical network applications. Its protection mechanism also comprises 802.1X Port-based and MAC-based user and device authentication. With the private VLAN function, communication between edge ports can be prevented to ensure user privacy.

 

Advanced IP Network Protection

The WGS-5215-16UP4X also provides DHCP Snooping, IP Source Guard and Dynamic ARP Inspection functions. This 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.

 

Modbus TCP provides Flexible Network Connectivity for Factory Automation

With the supported Modbus TCP/IP protocol, the WGS-5215-16UP4X can easily integrate with SCADA systems. But also HMI systems and other data acquisition systems in factory floors. It enables administrators to remotely monitor the industrial Ethernet switch’s operating information, port information and communication status, thus easily achieving enhanced monitoring and maintenance of the entire factory.

 

Flexibility and Extension Solution

The additional four SFP+ slots built in the WGS-5215-16UP4X support multi-speed, 100BASE-FX, 1GBASE-SX/LX, 2.5GBASE-X and 10GBASE-X SFP+ (Small Form-factor Pluggable) fiber-optic modules, meaning the administrator now can flexibly choose the suitable SFP transceiver according to not only the transmission distance but also the transmission speed required. The distance can be extended from 550 meters (multi-mode fiber) to 20/40/60 kilometers (single-mode fiber or WDM fiber). They are well suited for applications within the enterprise data centers and distributions.

 

 

Intelligent SFP Diagnosis Mechanism

The WGS-5215-16UP4X supports SFP-DDM (Digital Diagnostic Monitor) function that greatly helps network administrator to easily monitor real-time parameters of the SFP, such as optical output power, optical input power, temperature, laser bias current, and transceiver supply voltage.