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DeltaV Smart Switches in Twisted Pair Network with SFP and Fiber-Optic Uplinks

Figure: DeltaV RM100 and FP20 Twisted Pair Network with SFP and Fiber-Optic Uplinksshows DeltaV RM100 and FP20 Smart Switches in a twisted pair network with SFP and fiber-optic uplinks.

Figure: DeltaV RM100 and FP20 Twisted Pair Network with SFP and Fiber-Optic Uplinks


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100 m (max) straight-through or crossover cable. Cat. 5(e) Screened Twisted Pair cable is required between switches.
To prevent ground loops, build this cable assembly with a shielded, metal-enclosed RJ45 connector on one end and an isolated, plastic-enclosed RJ45 connector on the other end. The metal connector end of this cable assembly/link can be placed on either switch.
100 m (max) straight-through or crossover cable. The shield on the controller's RJ45 connector connects only to a Faraday cage in the controller; not to the controller's DC ground. Therefore, the RJ45 connectors are floating and the single point of ground is made at the hub or switch to which the controller is connected. Build this cable assembly with a shielded, metal-enclosed RJ45 connector on both ends.
100 m (max) straight-through or crossover cable. To prevent ground loops, build this cable assembly with a shielded, metal-enclosed RJ45 connector on one end and an isolated, plastic-enclosed RJ45 connector on the other end. The metal connector end of this cable assembly/link must be placed on the switch and not on the PC.
Use a ring tongue terminal to connect the ground screw of the switch to a suitable shield ground. This connection provides a ground for the twisted pair Ethernet shielded connectors.
The type of uplink ports on this switch are determined by the switch part number. In this example, all FP20 switches have two 100Mbit/sec full duplex multimode fiber-optic uplink ports. Other uplink port types are available in fixed hardware configurations. SFP ports are not available on this switch and this switch has no gigabit capable ports.
This switch has two fixed 10/100/1000Mbit/sec uplink ports and two SFP uplink ports. The SFP ports can be fitted with optional fiber-optic SFP transceivers for long distance communications. Only two uplinks can be active at a time in any combination of twisted pair and SFP. Refer to the ordering information for the available SFP transceivers.
All twisted pair ports are configured to auto-sense speed, auto-negotiate duplex, and auto-detect polarity. Do not hard-configure speed or duplex on the twisted pair switch ports or duplex mismatches, which create communications failures, could occur. Always allow the switch to auto-sense speed and auto-negotiate duplex. All unused ports of the switch can be deactivated (locked down) by a software command from the DeltaV station after all initial connections are made to the switch. If additional controllers or workstations need to be connected to unused ports after the initial lock down, an additional software command from the DeltaV station is required to unlock the ports. After the final connections are made, the lock down command should be reissued to the switch to lock down any remaining unused ports. Once the ports are in a lock down state, only the original device can communicate on its original port.
If more than one RM100 switch is required to increase port count in an area, use any of the gigabit uplink ports for the switch-to-switch connection to provide ample performance headroom on these aggregating links. 100Mbit/sec links can also be used for this purpose but normally these links are reserved for single devices on the edge of the network such as controllers and workstations that require much less bandwidth than switch-to-switch links.
The serial port is not required for process communications; it is used only for occasional out-of-band switch setup and management.
This connector is used for a +24VDC power supply input and relay contacts.
In this example, an SFP transceiver is used for the connection to the next switch. The SFP module type must be matched to the type of fiber-optic cable that is installed. Single mode and multimode fiber-optic cable in various core/cladding diameters which contribute to the overall distance limit, can be used with specific SFP modules.
This is a 10/100Mbit/sec twisted pair link.
This is a 100Mbit/sec full duplex multimode fiber-optic link. Distances up to 5 km can be achieved depending upon the fiber-optic port option ordered and the number of intermediate splices and patch panels used.