PLANET Industrial L2+ 8-Port 10/100/1000T 802.3at PoE + 2-Port 10G SFP+ Wall-mount Managed Ethernet Switch WGS-4215-8P2X

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

PLANET WGS-4215-8P2X is an Industrial Wall-mount PoE+ Managed Switch featuring PLANET intelligent PoE functions to improve the availability of industrial applications. It provides IPv6/IPv4 dual stack management a built-in Layer3 static routing capability, and a powerful L2+/L4 Gigabit switching engine along with eight 10/100/1000BASE-T ports featuring 36-watt PoE and two additional 100/1000/2500/10G BASE-X SFP ports. With a total power budget of up to 288 watts for different kinds of PoE applications, and featuring networking speed and operating temperature ranging from -40 to 75 degrees C in a compact but rugged IP30 metal housing, the WGS-4215-8P2X is an ideal solution to meet the demand for the following network applications:

Innovative Wall-mount Installation

The WGS-4215-8P2X is specially designed to be installed in a narrow environment, such as a wall enclosure or electric box. The compact, flat and wall-mounted design fits easily in any space-limited location. The WGS-4215-8P2X can be installed by fixed wall mounting or magnetic 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-4215-8P2X excels in connecting to an industrial backbone or high-capacity servers, demonstrating an unmatched performance. Operating flawlessly across an extensive temperature range, it guarantees a non-blocking switch fabric and delivers astonishing wire-speed throughput of up to 56Gbps. 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.

Cybersecurity Network Solution to Minimize Security Risks

The WGS-4215-8P2X supports SSHv2 and TLS 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-4215-8P2X 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. In a certain simple ring network, the recovery time of data link can be as fast as 10ms. 

Built-in Unique PoE Functions for Powered Devices Management

As it is the managed PoE switch for surveillance, wireless and VoIP networks, the WGS-4215-8P2X 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-4215-8P2X can be configured to monitor connected PD status in real time via ping action. Once the PD stops working and responding, the WGS-4215-8P2X 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 administrator management burden.

Scheduled Power Recycling

The WGS-4215-8P2X 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-4215-8P2X 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. 

802.3at PoE+ Power and Ethernet Data Transmission Distance Extension

In the “Extend” operation mode, the WGS-4215-8P2X operates on a per-port basis at 10Mbps duplex operation but can support 20-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-4215-8P2X provides an additional solution for 802.3at/af PoE distance extension, thus saving the cost of Ethernet cable installation. 

Innovative Wall-mount Installation

The WGS-4215-8P2X is specially designed to be installed in a narrow environment, such as wall enclosure. The compact, flat and wall-mounted design fits easily in any space-limited location. It adopts the user-friendly “Front Access” design, making the installing, cable wiring, LED monitoring and maintenance of the WGS-4215-8P2X placed in an enclosure very convenient for technicians. The WGS-4215-8P2X can be installed by fixed wall mounting, magnetic wall mounting or DIN rail, thereby making its usability more flexible.

Environmentally Hardened Design

With IP30, flat but rugged metal housing protection, the WGS-4215-8P2X 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 conditioner. Being able to operate under the temperature range from -20 to 70 degrees C, the WGS-4215-8P2X can be placed in almost any difficult environment.

IPv6/IPv4 Dual Stack Management

Supporting both IPv6 and IPv4 protocols, the WGS-4215-8P2X 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-4215-8P2X provides event alert function to help to diagnose the abnormal device owing to whether or not there is a break of the network connection, or the rebooting response.

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

The WGS-4215-8P2XV switch not only provides ultra high transmission performance, and excellent Layer 2 and Layer 4 technologies, but also Layer 3 IPv4 and IPv6 VLAN routing feature which allows to cross over different VLANs and different IP addresses for the purpose of having a highly-secure, flexibly-managed and simple networking application.

Robust Layer 2 Features

The WGS-4215-8P2X can be programmed for advanced switch management functions such as 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-4215-8P2X provides 802.1Q tagged VLAN, and the VLAN groups allowed will be maximally up to 2K. Via aggregation of supporting ports, the WGS-4215-8P2X allows the operation of a high-speed trunk combining multiple ports. It enables a maximum of up to 2 trunk groups with 2 ports per trunk group, and supports fail-over as well. 

Efficient Traffic Control

The WGS-4215-8P2X 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.

Efficient Management

For efficient management, the WGS-4215-8P2X is equipped with Command line, Web and SNMP management interfaces.

• With the built-in Web-based management interface, the WGS-4215-8P2X offers an easy-to-use, platform-independent management and configuration facility.
• For text-based management, it can be accessed via Telnet and SSHv2 protocol.
• For standard-based monitor and management software, it offers SNMPv3 connection which encrypts the packet content at each session for secure remote management.

Powerful Security from Layer 2 to Layer 4

The WGS-4215-8P2X 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, 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-4215-8P2X 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.

Modbus TCP provides Flexible Network Connectivity for Factory Automation

With the supported Modbus TCP/IP protocol, the WGS-4215-8P2X can easily integrate with SCADA systems, 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 two SFP slots built in the WGS-4215-8P2X 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 20/40/80 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-4215-8P2X 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.