Introduction: Industrial Ethernet; Avaya-Hirschmann™ Ethernet Switches Interoperability Testing - Avaya Hirschmann MACH1040 Technical Configuration Manual

1. Introduction: Industrial Ethernet

Harsh environments require robust solutions.
The Avaya-Belden Industrial Ethernet (IE) solutions can stand up to environmental settings that have
wide temperature ranges, excessively dirty areas, high EMI, or areas where it is not always feasible or
possible to use a NEMA-rated enclosure to protect the Ethernet switching equipment. Examples of this
include:
 Manufacturing
 Military
 Mining (coal, gas, etc.)
 Civil communications infrastructures
 Department of Transportation
In the manufacturing environment, Industrial Ethernet will soon completely replace proprietary BUS-
systems (fieldbus, Profibus, etc.) that are connecting industrial robots, actors, sensors and other
manufacturing components. This migration to Ethernet is being driven by the ubiquitous availability and
price points of Ethernet. Most, if not all, manufacturing environments already have some form of Ethernet
in place – handling the office/backend networks. The ability to leverage this, along with the continually
lowering price of Ethernet makes this very attractive as a Layer 1 / Layer 2 replacement for the plant floor
network.
Avaya and Belden are working together to offer a joint solution of industrial and data center switching
infrastructure that ensures the interoperability and integration between the equipment offered by the two
vendors. The Avaya-Belden total solution now encompasses not only the IE network, but also the
backend office infrastructure.
2. Avaya-Hirschmann™ Ethernet Switches
interoperability testing
This document provides the details of the interoperability testing between the Avaya Ethernet Routing
Switches and the Hirschmann™ Industrial Switches. The various network design scenarios and test
cases are detailed in this of this document.
The interoperability testing focused primarily on verifying throughput under normal conditions and then
simulating various fault conditions to test high availability. The following sections describe the Avaya and
Hirschmann™ switches used in these tests.
June 2011
Avaya Inc. – External Distribution
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