Deciding between an Unmanaged, Lite-Managed, or Fully Managed Industrial Network Switch?
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Maple Systems Industrial Network Switches offer a wide range of features, giving you the flexibility to select the right network switch for your specific application needs. To help you find the right solution, we’ve put together this overview table as a quick reference on the difference series we offer. If you need to compare specific part-numbers we can help with that too, just go to our side-by-side comparison table.
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Unmanaged switches offer various in-built traffic optimization and network performance features to prioritize important industrial data packets, prevent the loss of data during communication, and stable transmission.
Lite-Managed switches are equipped with a variety of management functions that let you configure communication parameters as you desire and monitor the network behavior in number of different simple ways.
Managed switches provide maximum control so you are equipped with the highest level of management functions that let you configure communication parameters and monitor network behavior in any way possible.
With straight forward configuration menus, both MapleLink and MapleLink Lite allow users to quickly setup their lite and fully managed network switch. The integrated topology map of connected devices and neighboring switches gives the user information such as IP address and link status.
