Westermo OnTime AS

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Westermo OnTime is a subsidiary of the Swedish company Westermo Teleindustri AB. It is a Norwegian company developing and manufacturing high quality industrial Ethernet products for control applications, intelligent transport systems, railway signal systems, substation automation, marine applications, windmills and other open automation systems.   Time Sync over Ethernet The T200 – series time synchronisation switch is one of our specialities, featuring an incorporated time server in the Ethernet switch. Accuracy down to 1 microsecond can be obtained in real-time automation projects. Both NTP/SNTP (RFC1305/RFC2030) and and IEEE1588 protocol are supported (IEEE1588 Grand Master, Transparency). A GPS receiver can be connected for absolute time reference.   Time synchronisation is done by NTP/SNTP or 1588 protocols, creating real-time, deterministic Ethernet networks Redundant Ring Networks with R/T200 switches The R/T200-series managed industrial switches use FRNT (Fast Re-configuring Network Topology) an OnTime patent proven technique for fast network re-configuration in case of topology changes in a network ring (FRNT0 protocol). Re-configuration time is only 30 milliseconds. Several redundant rings of industrial ethernet switches can be connected with redundant bridges creating full link redundancy throughout the whole industrial application (FRNT1 protocol). Rings can be redundantly bridged, recovery time only 30 milliseconds. Convenient in traffic control and railway applications Redundant Ring Networks with Lynx switches The Lynx 3xx and Lynx 4xx series also support the FRNT0 protocol, but with an improved recovery time of 20 ms in case of a topology change. Both R/T200 and Lynx 3xx/4xx switches can be combined in an FRNT0 network ring.

Dec 2005 The new Lynx Gigabit switches are here!! Three software levels and a lot of approvals for this top-of-the-line  switch series. · Lynx 1100 with SNMP · Lynx 1300 with FRNT v0 - redundant ring * SNMP * RSTP · Lynx 1400 with FRNT v0 - redundant ring * SNMP * IGMP snooping * VLAN RSTP The switches will have one or two gigabit ports of either TX or FX type (1000BASE). Combining one FX and one TX GigE is also possible. The Lynx switches will be approved for industrial, marine, railway, substation automation and defense use in the same way as Lynx 100/300/400.   June 13th, 2005 Westermo Teleindustri AB acquires OnTime Networks     read more.. link to Westermo Teleindustri AB: www.westermo.com   Type approval from Det norske Veritas read more..   February 8th 2005 OnTime industrial ethernet switches are now:         read more.. Need SNMP-Software? Click this link 16 November 2004 THE LYNX IS HERE! read more.. 10 October 2004 SECURITY in industrial Ethernet networks is getting more and more important. Unfriendly attacks, but also "friendly fire" are handled by the OnTime managed switches. read more.. 30 September 2004 IEEE1588 Grand Master and SNTP/NTP server timing accuracy of the T200 switch from OnTime is significantly improved. Accuracy is now better than 20ns! read more.. IEEE1588 TRANSPARENCY The T200 industrial ethernet switch can now be enabled for IEEE1588 Transparency read more..

Switches can also work with Spanning Tree Protocol and Rapid Spanning Tree. IGMP snooping, SNMP and port based VLAN is delivered as standard, user configurable features. Network management is made easy by the free OnTime IPConfig tool.

Harsh environment
High MTBF numbers makes OnTime managed switches a clear choice in harsh industrial environment. Automation systems for manufacturing, power plants, substation automation, traffic control, mining, defence, maritime and railway will benefit from the intelligent communication solutions offered in these industrial ethernet switches.

Multiple fiber options
The multiple fiber options - up to 8 fiber ports per switch (you can save a fiber converter or two) you can mix any kind of fiber types in switches – singlemode or multimode, different connectors like SC, ST, MTRJ and LC and distances from 2 km to 85 km

Unmanaged - Managed
The new Lynx industrial Ethernet switch represents a price effective alternative in open automation systems. The series starts with the L100 series unmanaged switches and reaches up through L300 with single ring redundancy to full management in the L400.

Fiber Optic Systems
The 200 series of switches from OnTime can be equipped with up to 8 fiber ports per unit, multi- or single mode. The utilization of fiber optic technology for factory networking and process control has become increasingly popular in the last few decades. A basic fiber optic system using an optical transceiver circuit and fiber optic media offer a wide array of benefits not offered by traditional copper conductors. OnTime switches with their multiple fiber options provides full fiber features in Ethernet communication.