| When you are looking for a rugged network | | | | corrosion. |
| switch, you probably need to use your computers | | | | Impact resistance |
| in a harsh, and likely in the outdoor environment. | | | | Whenever a switch must be used outdoors, such |
| In this article you will find the 4 requirements that | | | | as in highway control applications, or in mines, |
| a network switch must have to be considered | | | | resistance to impact of small particles, stones, and |
| rugged, and to have a chance to withstand harsh | | | | the like is crucial. Again, a solid, metal enclosure of |
| environments, such as environments in many | | | | the switch will go a long way toward achieving a |
| industrial applications, as well as to provide reliable | | | | good level of impact resistance. Additionally, a |
| service in recreational applications, such as when | | | | protective enclosure of a cable-switch connection |
| we go RVing or yachting. The 4 requirements are: | | | | may be needed. |
| Water, corrosion, and dust resistance, Impact | | | | High and low temperature resistance |
| resistance, High and low temperature resistance, | | | | The protection against high and low temperature |
| and Resistance to strong EM fields. Let's look at | | | | extremes is two-fold. First, the switch must be |
| how the ruggedness can be accomplished in a | | | | designed to continue undisturbed operation in high |
| network switch. By the time you read this, you | | | | and low temperatures. In addition, secondly, in |
| will know better what features you must require | | | | pharmaceutical and food industrial operations, the |
| for your ruggedized switch in your circumstances, | | | | switch must be designed not to emit any fumes |
| either for an industrial application or for your RV | | | | in extremely high temperatures either. |
| or yacht. | | | | Resistance to strong EM fields |
| Water, corrosion, and dust resistance | | | | In some industrial circumstances, such as in |
| When your switch must operate in outdoor | | | | electric power plants, or switching stations, strong |
| industrial applications, or when it is used in a RV or | | | | electro magnetic transient pulses are a way of |
| a yacht in marine applications, water and dust are | | | | life. The network switches must be designed to, if |
| something that you definitely want to protect | | | | not be completely resistant to such pulses, at |
| your switch from. For most purposes, a | | | | least be able to recover gracefully from such |
| water-tight enclosures of the network | | | | pulses, and not lose control of the network traffic |
| cable-network switch junctures and a water-tight | | | | even though a portion of the network packets |
| design of the switch box is sufficient to protect | | | | may be delayed or corrupted. |
| from water splashes, sand and dust, and | | | | |